This week's free game offerings from the Epic Games Store includes a sequel to last week's freebie, and a retro feeling side scroller.

Welcome to the Lost City, explorer!

WoW patch 11.2, Ghosts of K'aresh, will arrive soon -- August 5, in fact!

WoW patch 11.2 arrives on August 5, sending us off to the ruined world of K'aresh — which we just got a fresh lore dump on in a new short story about Locus-Walker — and eventually into Manaforge Omega to confront Dimensius.

I don’t think they would let mounts stabled at the Trading Post eat customers, but I am wondering about this fel boar, who is ten times my size and has very hungry eyes. Fel isn’t usually my aesthetic, but you know, maybe this boar and I could be friends. Or enemies. Frenemies? Well, we’ll talk about the moral quandary of our mount collection in a minute. Let’s Queue.

Two listener questions form bookends to an overarching concept this week on the Lore Watch Podcast.

The Ethereals (and their erstwhile cousins the Brokers) have a huge role to play in WoW patch 11.2 -- which makes sense, since we're off to their broken homeworld of K'aresh to save what's left of it (plus, you know, the known universe) from the Void Lord Dimensius.

There's a hidden Tortollan city deep in the Un'Goro Crater, and Hearthstone's latest expansion, The Lost City of Un’Goro, is taking us there.

If you're a transmog fiend, it's okay, you're among friends here -- there's no shame in wanting pretty outfits.

In patch 11.1, we got our first look at Blizzard's new plan for progressively rewarding continued raiding as well as making raids easier over time in the form of our first raid Renown track -- the Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club.