It's time to race through the skies of our favorite shattered planet, with this year's Outland Cup rewards including some dazzling red-and-gold transmog options.

Looking at the new Silvermoon, and Eversong Woods in general is, in many ways, almost like looking at a “WoW 2.” Or, perhaps, a remastered version of WoW. It’s a bigger, better-looking, improved on nearly every aspect version of the same zones we first saw in Burning Crusade, 19 years ago. Familiar places, locations, NPCs, looking shiny and new and breathtaking.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we have a constant sense of awe finding out how that gate or that tunnel or that spire looks just like it does in our memories, but better.

Midnight releases into early access later this week, and then full release next week, so for now the crew is pretty much just in waiting mode.

Both Skyriding and steady flight return as travel options in World of Warcraft: Midnight, but Skyriding is available almost immediately — just after you finish the introductory quest chain — and will be the main method players will rely on for travel during their first Midnight campaign playthrough.

Mark your calendars, World of Warcraft players -- whether you've just joined the fun or you've been along for the ride since the beginning, the next chapter of Azeroth's story, Midnight, will have its Early Access go live at 3pm pacific (6pm eastern) on February 26.

To celebrate the release of Midnight, there's a pair of new Twitch Drops to earn in World of Warcraft: the Cuddly Alliance Blue Grrgle and Cuddly Horde Red Grrgle!

The World of Warcraft clock is about to strike Midnight, and the heroes of Azeroth are being summoned to defend their world against the encroaching darkness -- better mount up on an appropriately yellow and glowing steed before riding into battle.

There’s always one part of a new expansion I have trouble with, and that’s figuring out what in the sam hill hickity heck to do with all this junk before I go accumulate even more junk. I probably should’ve done a ton of crafting and AHing in the lead-up, but the entire gameplay loop of items and crafting just isn’t my thing. I want to hit the ground running in whatever (as long as it’s transmogged) and be a little loot goblin and hoard stuff forever. It doesn’t matter what it is as long as I can pick it up. Anyway, anybody want a scourgestone?

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and the answer is probably not to just buy a new tab and shove all this garbage in there. Right?

We have another pair of very different games from the Epic Games Store for free this week.

Here we are again, on the doorstep of another World of Warcraft expansion -- what do you have planned for the first time you log in to Midnight to answer Lady Liadrin's call and defend the Sunwell from swirling purple monsters from beyond?