For the first time in the history of the franchise, we have a roadmap for Diablo 4, covering 2025's development activities.

World of Warcraft Classic's Season of Discovery Phase 8 is now live and players can now do new quest and open world content in the Eastern Plaguelands.

World of Warcraft has maintained a solid content cadence ever since the start of Dragonflight and the 2025 schedule for The War Within suggests the pace isn't slowing down soon.

I’ve been having a bit of a love/hate relationship with cozy games of late, because to me there can be a fine line between smoothing over the rougher edges of reality and utterly obliterating them to the extent that it seems like a cruel mockery of lived experience. I’ve enjoyed Wanderstop so far, and part of that is that there’s clearly some kind of magic surrounding the tea shop, where you don’t have to worry about your expertise as a tea seller or the solvency of the shop. The other is that this is a temporary escape, a short respite to breathe deep, enjoy your surroundings and the tea, and then move on. Of course, the escapism is that you get to move on when you’re ready and only then, but who’s counting.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and just sit for a minute. Listen to the birds. It’ll be okay.

It's Tuesday, which means it's maintenance day for World of Warcraft realms in North America and Australia.

In the course of researching my Know Your Lore article on Belial I began to realize that the Diablo franchise really does view the Lesser Evils as lesser.

Believe it or not, the Metro Richmond Zoo's precious Poppy was merely the last arrival in a personality-packed lineup of newborn pygmy hippos in the last year.

Belial is one of the seven Great Evils and is returning to Sanctuary in Diablo 4 Season 8.

I know that the odds of Heroes of the Storm coming back into full production are pretty low, but that doesn’t stop me from taking a big whiff of Hopium every time we get news about it! Did you know that with Microsoft PC Gamepass you now get a nice pack of 30 Heroes in Heroes to play with? So if you were ever like, how do I even get into it when I don’t want to be relying on just the basic stuff like Jim Raynor. Now’s your opportunity!

Surely this means that Microsoft is looking at ways to build some hype prior to a full-throated re-launch at BlizzCon ’26!

While I start building my expectations sky-high, it’s time for — The Queue!

Diablo 4 patch 2.2.0 will be launching with Season 8 on April 29, but we've already seen the game's next update on the PTR and the biggest feature that stood out to me was the boss ladder rework.