Lore Watch Podcast starts off with a dive into the lore of the Midsummer Fire Festival, particularly since so much was added over the past few years.

We recently heard yet another update promising that there is a team working hard on creating The Elder Scrolls 6, although there was nothing of substance beyond assuring us that it's Bethesda's "primary development focus." After all this time, it's reasonable to ask: what are you even hoping for from the sixth installment at this point?

Last week's Gen Con was a focal point for Dungeons & Dragons, as the previously thin calendar of upcoming releases was filled out with familiar names, old haunts, surprising horrors, and iconic villains.

The waiting on patch day is the hardest part. It’s like being 8 and it’s Christmas morning, but also like you’re a responsible adult who has columns to write, or whatever. But man am I distracted today.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and I don’t have anything better to do today than answer them I guess.

If you've been making dyes to color the furniture in your World of Warcraft character's house, you might be caught off guard by an upcoming change -- but don't worry, it's just a lead in to a really good update for the dye system.

It's a pretty modest maintenance day for World of Warcraft, with a quick hour of downtime for Mists of Pandaria and The Burning Crusade, and a relatively short two-hour maintenance for Midnight and WoW Classic.

It’s kinda nice when the main villain in an epic fantasy story is just some human bandit. Strong enough to kill ancient dragons, make legendary weapons out of their bones, and invite his closest friends to drink their magical blood, sure, but still some human bandit!

Who sings his own final boss theme in a tenor voice.

This is The Queue, your daily Q&A column where we really should replay that game for the third time as we wait for the sequel to come out in just over a month.

In this special Gen Con edition of the Tavern Watch Podcast, we're looking at a mountain of new product announcements for our favorite games, some coming soon and others stretched out over the next few years, but all of them exciting.

It's been a busy week, with a lot of fresh release dates announced, including WoW patch 12.1, Hearthstone Battlegrounds Season 14, and the Diablo 4 patch 3.2.0 PTR, all of which are imminent.

At the Daggerheart Next panel at Gen Con 2026, Darrington Press laid out a three year roadmap for their fantasy tabletop RPG, and for fans of this system, it's packed with new game content.