For the first time in the two years since Overwatch launched, Mercy is no longer the primary healer in the game's roster of support heroes.

Call the new Overwatch Doomfist skin Swamp Monster or Doomfish, but we all know it's a direct reference to Guillermo del Toro's 2017 film The Shape of Water.

There's a fallacy I sometimes even find myself subscribing to, and it's that the people who play World of Warcraft are customers -- that we are engaged in a purely transactional exchange.

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I have to say, it’s very hard to be bored when you’re being chased down by several dozen whelplings. Sure, they’re only baby dragons, but they have so many tiny teeth and a small fireball will scorch you as well as a big one.

But just because I’m not bored doesn’t mean it’s not boring.

In my opinion, Hallow's End has been a casualty of the increasing hostility between the Horde and the Alliance since Cataclysm. In particular, the holiday suffers from two problems -- a tendency toward stagnation and a removal of its in-game cultural significance that renders it effectively meaningless.

Yesterday, we were treated to the official reveal of BlizzCon 2018's full schedule.

Every year the Blizzard Watch (or, before that, WoW Insider) team would sit down before BlizzCon and write up some predictions.

Someone recently pointed out to me that literally everything happening in Battle for Azeroth -- the monumental death toll at Teldrassil, the destruction of Lordaeron, and now the upcoming Siege of Zuldazar in patch 8.1 -- is ultimately Gallywix's fault.

In Overwatch competitive season 12, most players play only one hero across all skill ratings, while the players that flex from support, damage, and tank roles are in the minority, according to the latest report from the OmnicMeta.