You’re kidding. It’s Friday? It’s Friday again? Already?

This thing keeps sneaking up on me.

I'm excited every time we get a Quarterly Update for Diablo 4, despite the fact that these are updates for a game that's not out yet and that could all change at a moment's notice.

We've seen World of Warcraft hang on as the top dog of MMOs over the years, weathering challenges from all kinds of other games.

If you thought the start of the Diablo Immortal technical alpha was going to be the biggest news on Thursday, think again.

We finally know when Diablo Immortal will get any sort of public test: the answer is "now, if you live in Australia." The announcement of a technical alpha test says invites to Australian players who pre-registered on the Google Play Store have started going out, and there are already streamers showing off gameplay.

This week saw some Torghast changes as the new levels went live and players started hurling themselves face first into the teeth of the Tower of the Damned to discover that, oops, some of the new stuff was pretty hard.

On Saturday, December 19, those brave souls who venture to the Blizzard Watch Twitch channel at 2:30 PM Central will witness the culmination of 16 episodes of our D&D play stream, as the party of ragtag adventurers who have gone from being trapped in a volcano lair to escaping to another dimension to returning home to find out their lives were stolen by imposters now head back to that volcano lair to destroy two horrible artifacts of a dread alien god in the unquenchable flames of another god's summer vacation home.

So how’s Torghast going for you all? The Shadestalkers this week are unbelievably overtuned, if you ask me, but whichever one doesn’t have them (totally blanking right now) feels a lot more difficult so. Rough week overall if you’re trying to push. I currently have a love/hate relationship with the place because hoo boy is it fun to get Catharsticks + health buffs and just one-shot things, but that build is dependent on, well, getting Catharsticks and health buffs. Without them, my runs feel like a non-starter.

Anyhow, enough about Torghast. Let’s Queue.

This week, Matt Rossi and Joe Perez explore the new mechanics announced in the latest Diablo 4 dev blog, the swift fall of Naxxramas in WoW Classic, and the updated rewards from this year's Overwatch Winter Wonderland event.

The doors of Castle Nathria lay wide open, and the sounds of combat can be heard echoing from within.