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.

It’s my eight-year Blizzard Watch anniversary! This very day! It’s hard to believe that it’s been so long. Surely it was just yesterday; now let me take a big sip of water and take a look at a calendar…

Way back when I got hired, I’d basically never written anything outside of school. Now I have 700 articles to my name according to the tracker on WordPress. This is also apparently my 700th article, which is pretty cool! I still remember when I started Anne introducing herself and saying, “Don’t be scared, but I have notes!” Amazingly, she’s as nice as you expect her to be, and she helped me to be a better writer. As well as literally everyone else that Blizzard Watch has gotten to write or edit any of our articles. Special shout-outs to Anna and Liz for keeping everything running and putting up with my overuse of the exclamation point. Even though if they’re reading this right now, they’re shaking their head at how many I’ve already used. It’s been eight years — I’m allowed to be excited!

My first article about Daughter of the Sea still even remains cool! I’m glad it was about something really fun, and not just a patch note roundup. Maybe someday Blizzard will give us another sea-shanty to obsess over.

So here’s to you all for reading my words, and here’s to Blizzard Watch for giving me a place to put those words. Thanks to them, I’ve gotten to do a bunch of really cool things, and I can’t wait to see what else I can do in the future.

While I daydream about that, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

This week's podcast kicked off with the discussion that has been pinging around the World of Warcraft community this week: a GM cheating so a streamer could clear a M+23 dungeon on time.

Yesterday at Gen Con the Dungeons & Dragons team revealed an updated roadmap and several new releases, including the "worst kept secret" that has been bouncing around the internet this week: a crossover with none other than World of Warcraft, with a rule expansion that brings everything you'd need to play a Warcraft campaign into D&D 5.5e.

Diablo 4 patch 3.2.0 is scheduled to launch in September alongside Season 15, and we couldn't be more hyped because some beloved features from prior Diablo titles are making a comeback.