Today's WoW maintenance gives us another quick downtime, with a single hour of maintenance scheduled for all World of Warcraft varieties.

Happy Monday, Watchers!

Claptrap is one of my top favorite video-game characters of all time. There’s something so endearing about a tiny robot that is so annoying that everybody in the game hates him. He gets just the right amount of annoying traits to earnest desires for friends to rage-filled tirades against the jerks who steal his stuff that it shouldn’t work — but it does! It’s a tough line to walk for any character, and someone this poorly designed, one-wheeled, one-eyed little guy makes it work.

Borderlands 4 has been good fun so far! The team has put together a really solid, fun, looter-shooter that takes the best parts of the previous five games and adds some new stuff to speed up the movement a bit. Summoning your vehicle anywhere with basically no cooldown is a game-changer and really takes the slog out of the early zone once you get it. I also really like how the game’s humor has gotten a bit more focused than the last game. It’s still got jokes galore and funny moments, but I haven’t seen as much pop-culture referencing that popped up in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. There’s nothing specifically wrong with reference humor; it’s just not going to last as long as a well-written joke.

While I go and open like five more giant glowing chests full of weapons, it’s time for — The Queue!

Are we heading towards death or certain death?

We're off to K'aresh this week in order to collect cute critters, become cosmic conservationists, take care of some minor void-related business, and most importantly, collect all of the brand new fashion looks for season 3 of The War Within.

Did you ever have a friend who started playing a game you really like and haven't played in a while, so you immediately want to go pick it up again?

Blizzard lists some interesting deals for their gear on occasion.

Summer is slowly coming to an end, and Fall should be rolling its way in here soon -- but that doesn't stop the flow of new and exciting games.

Nothing like coming back from a weeklong road trip and being immediately assigned homework from a fellow Queue writer. I’m not one to back down from a challenge so I’ve spent all week working on my answers. So if this article feels especially Cory-heavy well now you know why.

My trip itself was really fun. Drove through the wilds of Kentucky (stopping at Cumberland Gap and Mammoth Cave NP) and Missouri to get to Kansas City (this just in: BBQ is yummy). Saw some wild bison on the way back which was really awesome. But enough about last week, it’s time to get to my work from this week!

This week our writer Christian Thoma joined the mayhem that is the Blizzard Watch Podcast.