Leveling professions in Midnight can be an expensive, tedious process, so we're happy to report that the Darkmoon Faire is in town to award you with easy profession points right as the expansion launches.

I’ve done it. I have tried a Kraft Dinner Mac and Cheese… cheesecake. I saw this food crime a couple of weeks ago and made it a mission to eventually try it. I say food crime mainly out of the response I got to it when I mentioned it during the Blizzard Watch podcast a couple of weeks ago. Nobody else seemed to think that it was going to work for some reason. Cowards, the lot of them!

So I’m happy to report back after both eating the cheesecake and surviving eating the cheesecake. It was fine. I’m honestly a little disappointed that it wasn’t more of a trainwreck. I was really hoping that it was going to be amazing or horrible. I didn’t want a safe middle ground here, just pure food chaos! It turns out that if you’re already using something like cream cheese as a base for your cake, adding extra cheese via a dehydrated cheese flavour pouch at some point in the mixture doesn’t really do much to change the flavor profile. It was still just a cheesy cake. There was the barest hint of more of a cheddar flavor on the edge of the taste, but nothing that made me go ick. If you want to make it yourself, you can follow the official recipe, and maybe horrify some of your friends and relatives, but I’d be surprised if they’re also not left feeling just whelmed.

While I go off in search of new and more interesting food crimes, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

We've very nearly survived another summer gaming showcase season — there's one more showcase today, and then we're in the clear for another year.

Game showcase summer has come to a close: the early weeks of June fill the void of E3 with video game announcements, capping off with Summer Game Fest 2026 itself.

I wanna try it. I love ramen (ordered some last night, which is what prompted this thought). Pandaren are canonically extremely good at cooking; they even get a racial about it. Their ramen must be divine.

This is The Queue, our daily column full of Qs and As where we wish we could live in Pandaria. Seriously. Grummles and Yaks and Luckydos; great food and elemental spirits. Just ignore the Sha and the Mantid and the Virmen, and it’s a great place.

Because of the Blizzard Watch Site Curse, the day after we recorded the podcast, the release date for patch 12.0.7 was announced, because that's just how that works.

Summer is approaching, and that means it's game showcase season as we wind up to Summer Game Fest on June 6.

What a time to be a gamer. We live in a golden age of video gaming, in which there is a constant deluge of new, great, innovative titles everywhere — and this week in particular is jam-packed with indie game showcases highlighting the weird and the wonderful (and the weird). Of course we also live in an age of big-budget live service games packed with must-have microtransactions, so maybe on the whole it balances out.

But I’m trying to focus on the positive here, which is the many new games hitting my Steam wishlist.

(Is that a positive? Hm.)

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I make my best attempt to answer your gaming questions. Let’s get to it.

Every week the Epic Games Store gives away a game or two for free.

People have been logging on to their computers in order to cast spells at other people logged on to their own computers for over four decades.