This week's Hearthstone Tavern Brawl is an interesting social experiment, but not necessarily a fun one.
Why should Blizzard add Gorgonopsids to World of Warcraft?
by Matthew Rossi on July 25, 2019 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi
Because giant lizard-cats four meters long with saber teeth are awesome, that's why. Inostrancevia was the largest of the gorgonopsids, a suborder of the theriodonts -- the order that included our own direct ancestors and thus, ultimately, us, and one that really deserves a lot more attention in video games.
Off Topic: Newly-discovered dinosaur Hesperornithoides miessleri hints at the origins of winged flight
by Matthew Rossi on July 24, 2019 at 4:00pm @MatthewWRossi
Guys, Troodontids are awesome.
Overwatch’s new hero Sigma is built around negative stereotypes of mental illness, right down to his lack of shoes
by Tyler Colp on July 24, 2019 at 3:00pm @tylercolp
Overwatch's new hero Sigma is man that suffered serious psychological damage after coming into contact with a black hole.
Revamped Worgen and other things I want to see in patch 8.2.5
by Matthew Rossi on July 24, 2019 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi
I'm not even kidding.
The Queue: I’m pretty sure I sleep-wrote this Queue
by Elizabeth Harper on July 24, 2019 at 12:00pm @faience
Is sleep-writing even a thing? I don’t know, but I’m a little vague on when (or if) I completed this, so I just assume that’s what happened.
What World of Warcraft role is in most need of an overhaul?
by Matthew Rossi on July 24, 2019 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi
One of the oldest and most preserved paradigms in World of Warcraft is one it inherited from its predecessors like Ultima Online or EverQuest -- the idea of certain classes being good at one of three primary roles. Tanking, or the art of getting the ire of the various monsters in dungeons focused on you instead of the tasty healer in cloth booties; Healing, the aforementioned person in cloth booties who can channel some form of magic to heal the wounds of their fellow adventurers; and DPS, short for damage per second, a metric that tells you how much damage these players are capable of dealing in a second while fighting said monsters.
Hotfix adjusts tank threat from Heart of Azeroth Essences
by Matthew Rossi on July 23, 2019 at 4:00pm @MatthewWRossi
I said this was going to happen sooner or later.
Should Disney buy Activision Blizzard?
by Matthew Rossi on July 23, 2019 at 3:00pm @MatthewWRossi
Okay, first up, let me be clear -- nobody at Disney and nobody at Activision has said that this is in the cards.
Overwatch’s new tank hero Sigma has the tools to upend the game
by Tyler Colp on July 23, 2019 at 1:23pm @tylercolp
Overwatch has finally released Sigma -- the latest hero -- on the game's PC PTR.



