This week on the Blizzard Watch Podcast, Matt Rossi and Joe Perez discuss what announcements they expect to see at next month's BlizzConline 2021, if skipping the leveling campaign in WoW Shadowlands for an alt is worth it, and what to do with all of those Blizzard CDs, figurines, and books piling up at home.

In the past, I’ve called the pet battle system the best thing World of Warcraft ever added, because of its completely optional nature.

It seems like the Winter Wonderland only just melted away, but Overwatch is already back in business with a new event.

In the latest Overwatch Developer Update video, a clean-shaven Jeff Kaplan discussed an upcoming feature for Overwatch matchmaking called the Priority Pass.

It feels like Shadowlands has really lost the thread on the idea of all tanks being roughly equivalent.

We are the Chaddius. You will be assimilated. You will be provided with a nice pool to relax at, and a pair of kickin’ sunglasses.

Resistance is futile.

The takeaway I have from playing World of Warcraft and experiencing its story over the past decade -- from Cataclysm to Mists and then the Warlords/Legion/Battle for Azeroth years, and finally exploring the content of Shadowlands -- is that in many ways WoW feels to me much like a season of a streamed TV series like The Witcher or The Boys, not in terms of the story it is telling, but in how that story is told.

I really expected I would approach Shadowlands leveling in a systematic way, using the Threads of Fate system to pop all of my alts to max level as fast as possible, and I was entirely and completely wrong about this.

Let's be honest.

I will absolutely never really feel comfortable telling you the best way to do anything for a variety of reasons.