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Want quiet neighbors? Look no further than plot 20 on Founder's Point! Tour today! Please. They say I can't leave until someone takes my place.
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Want quiet neighbors? Look no further than plot 20 on Founder's Point! Tour today! Please. They say I can't leave until someone takes my place.
If you don't play a Blood Elf Paladin, you might not know Liadrin's whole history. Here are the highlights as we make our way past the cinematic and into Midnight.
What you need to know about Lady Liadrin going into Midnight
Midnight opens with the heroes of Azeroth called to the desperate defense of the Sunwell by Lady Liadrin, but before we accept the summon request we should
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If you don't play a Blood Elf Paladin, you might not know Liadrin's whole history. Here are the highlights as we make our way past the cinematic and into Midnight.
We love a good ominous hum. It's only maybe trying to devour us, but it's such a pleasant sound.
Assuming our souls have not been sucked into the endless void, you can listen to the full discussion on this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast, which is now live!
Assuming our souls have not been sucked into the endless void, you can listen to the full discussion on this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast, which is now live!
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We love a good ominous hum. It's only maybe trying to devour us, but it's such a pleasant sound.
Assuming our souls have not been sucked into the endless void, you can listen to the full discussion on this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast, which is now live!
Assuming our souls have not been sucked into the endless void, you can listen to the full discussion on this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast, which is now live!
We're loving Winter Burrow, which lets us play a survival game without bashing zombies in the face with baseball bats. Conversely, we're loving Winter Burrow for being a cute, cozy game but with real survival elements (especially the cold!)
Winter Burrow is a cozy game with surprisingly tricky survival gameplay
In terms of my gaming tastes, I tend to be a bit of a contraction. I love the vibe of cozy games -- cute animals, cohesive color palettes, distinctive art
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November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We're loving Winter Burrow, which lets us play a survival game without bashing zombies in the face with baseball bats. Conversely, we're loving Winter Burrow for being a cute, cozy game but with real survival elements (especially the cold!)
Fortunately I'm always overwhelmed by anxiety, so this creature's attempt to induce paralyzing anxiety definitely won't work.
Catch the full episode of Tavern Watch Plays this week, where we're playing #Starfinder 2e. Tune in now for the first episode of our sci-fi adventure!
Catch the full episode of Tavern Watch Plays this week, where we're playing #Starfinder 2e. Tune in now for the first episode of our sci-fi adventure!
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Fortunately I'm always overwhelmed by anxiety, so this creature's attempt to induce paralyzing anxiety definitely won't work.
Catch the full episode of Tavern Watch Plays this week, where we're playing #Starfinder 2e. Tune in now for the first episode of our sci-fi adventure!
Catch the full episode of Tavern Watch Plays this week, where we're playing #Starfinder 2e. Tune in now for the first episode of our sci-fi adventure!
Are you in the #WoW Midnight beta test? If so, we have some tips on what to do when you're testing — besides bug reporting every dog you can't pet, which is obvious to anybody. (With apologies to the QA people reading all of my bug reports.)
What to do if you get into the Midnight beta test, now live!
The Midnight beta is now live, and you haven't gotten in you can sign up right now. As with some previous expansions, the Epic Edition guarantees access to
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November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Are you in the #WoW Midnight beta test? If so, we have some tips on what to do when you're testing — besides bug reporting every dog you can't pet, which is obvious to anybody. (With apologies to the QA people reading all of my bug reports.)
In this weeks #Hearthstone Brawl, just pick a card, any card! No, seriously, that's the whole premise of this brawl.
How to easily win Hearthstone's All-Star Squad Tavern Brawl
Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play. We've had Hearthstone Tavern Brawls that ask us to choose three cards to build our decks and Brawls
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November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
In this weeks #Hearthstone Brawl, just pick a card, any card! No, seriously, that's the whole premise of this brawl.
It's official: patch 11.2.7 is releasing December 2! We kinda already figured that out with the Player Housing release already slated for that day, but I like the whole mystique thing, too. blizzardwatch.com/2025/11/12/w...
When is The War Within patch 11.2.7 release date — and what’s in it?
World of Warcraft has maintained a solid content cadence ever since the start of Dragonflight and patch 11.2.7 will launch December 2, 2025 alongside the s
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November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It's official: patch 11.2.7 is releasing December 2! We kinda already figured that out with the Player Housing release already slated for that day, but I like the whole mystique thing, too. blizzardwatch.com/2025/11/12/w...
Sanctuary is a pretty awful place, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Heavens had a bug zapper for human souls.
This and more discussion of life and death (and life) in #Diablo on this week's Lore Watch Podcast, which is now live!
This and more discussion of life and death (and life) in #Diablo on this week's Lore Watch Podcast, which is now live!
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Sanctuary is a pretty awful place, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Heavens had a bug zapper for human souls.
This and more discussion of life and death (and life) in #Diablo on this week's Lore Watch Podcast, which is now live!
This and more discussion of life and death (and life) in #Diablo on this week's Lore Watch Podcast, which is now live!
Do you need more games to play? No?
Well, bad news: there's another Steam sale going on.
Well, bad news: there's another Steam sale going on.
Steam Animal Fest offers discounts on all animal-themed games, so find a fuzzy new favorite
If there's anything we love at Blizzard Watch as much as video games it's cute and cuddly animals. So when Steam announces a new hopefully annual event cal
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November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Do you need more games to play? No?
Well, bad news: there's another Steam sale going on.
Well, bad news: there's another Steam sale going on.
The Midnight beta test is really (really) live now, at least if you can get past the login queues and lag, so I hope you're ready to file some bug reports because I can't be the only person bug reporting the dogs and cats you can't pet.
The World of Warcraft: Midnight beta test is now live (if laggy), so get ready to file those bug reports
We've been looking forward to the beta test for World of Warcraft: Midnight, to get a better look at the game (and what some of its features look like with
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November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Midnight beta test is really (really) live now, at least if you can get past the login queues and lag, so I hope you're ready to file some bug reports because I can't be the only person bug reporting the dogs and cats you can't pet.
This new Twitch Drop looks cozy, though I don't know if I'd wear it out and about in Orgrimmar. But whether you'd wear a bright purple sweatsuit in public or not, you can collect it right now by watching #WoW streams on Twitch!
Earn the Violet Sweatsuit ensemble for World of Warcraft by watching your favorite Twitch streamers
To celebrate the launch of Midnight beta, there's a new Twitch Drop to earn in World of Warcraft: the Violet Sweatsuit! This comfy ensemble is available fr
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November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This new Twitch Drop looks cozy, though I don't know if I'd wear it out and about in Orgrimmar. But whether you'd wear a bright purple sweatsuit in public or not, you can collect it right now by watching #WoW streams on Twitch!
Severs are back online, right on time! Have fun storming the castle, everybody! (The castle is whatever you want it to be.)
We have a slightly longer maintenance o'clock for all versions of WoW this week. We're expecting Midnight beta to begin later today, so there's a lot of tense waiting to be had all around.
Today's World of Warcraft maintenance is long (but not too long)
We've had a whole lot of long WoW maintenances lately, but we've finally reached an almost-not-long-maintenance. This Tuesday we have a slightly long World
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November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Severs are back online, right on time! Have fun storming the castle, everybody! (The castle is whatever you want it to be.)
We have a slightly longer maintenance o'clock for all versions of WoW this week. We're expecting Midnight beta to begin later today, so there's a lot of tense waiting to be had all around.
Today's World of Warcraft maintenance is long (but not too long)
We've had a whole lot of long WoW maintenances lately, but we've finally reached an almost-not-long-maintenance. This Tuesday we have a slightly long World
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November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We have a slightly longer maintenance o'clock for all versions of WoW this week. We're expecting Midnight beta to begin later today, so there's a lot of tense waiting to be had all around.
Thank you so much to everyone who entered with their great neighborhood vacation spots! Congrats to @darkwynds.bsky.social (who recommended Founder's Point plot 18 or 8 and @mbuhtz.bsky.social (who recommended Founder's Point plot 46)! These were their vacation suggestions (very different vibes)!
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Thank you so much to everyone who entered with their great neighborhood vacation spots! Congrats to @darkwynds.bsky.social (who recommended Founder's Point plot 18 or 8 and @mbuhtz.bsky.social (who recommended Founder's Point plot 46)! These were their vacation suggestions (very different vibes)!
it is time o'clock on a monday, so we have a whole lot of very cute animals to get you through. Be careful how hard you hug these little cuties though!
Cuteness is getting a little poke-y this week as we celebrate porcupines
Happy Monday, Watchers! Now, I don't know if I previously thought of porcupines as cute, but Discord member Kehl convinced me otherwise with the YouTube ch
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November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
it is time o'clock on a monday, so we have a whole lot of very cute animals to get you through. Be careful how hard you hug these little cuties though!
Here's what we're looking forward to this week (spoiler: BETA!!!) and everything that happened last week. Grab a coffee and let's hit the ground running this Monday.
Blizzard Watch Weekly: Welcome to the new beta (it's a lot like the old alpha)
There's not much longer to wait for the Midnight beta to launch, but if you're waiting for the latest news about Midnight (and/or player housing), you may
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November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Here's what we're looking forward to this week (spoiler: BETA!!!) and everything that happened last week. Grab a coffee and let's hit the ground running this Monday.
The Midnight beta test starts November 11, and we're giving away a key to the Epic Edition which includes beta access! To enter, reply with an answer to this question: Our realtor has been working overtime. Which housing plot (Horde or Alliance) should she visit for a vacation, and why? #WoW_Partner
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I don't know if there's more hopium (or copium) for Heroes of the Storm or for Yrel in this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast. You're going to have to make that call for yourself.
Listen to the full podcast for this week's Heroes of the Storm Hopium segment — it's live right now, so get your hopes up.
Listen to the full podcast for this week's Heroes of the Storm Hopium segment — it's live right now, so get your hopes up.
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I don't know if there's more hopium (or copium) for Heroes of the Storm or for Yrel in this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast. You're going to have to make that call for yourself.
Listen to the full podcast for this week's Heroes of the Storm Hopium segment — it's live right now, so get your hopes up.
Listen to the full podcast for this week's Heroes of the Storm Hopium segment — it's live right now, so get your hopes up.
Don't forget! You still have a day to enter our contest to win a Midnight Epic Edition key!
The Midnight beta test starts November 11, and we're giving away a key to the Epic Edition which includes beta access! To enter, reply with an answer to this question: Our realtor has been working overtime. Which housing plot (Horde or Alliance) should she visit for a vacation, and why? #WoW_Partner
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Don't forget! You still have a day to enter our contest to win a Midnight Epic Edition key!
The light be our guide...
Well. In the form of cool, Light-centric transom's , anyway.
Well. In the form of cool, Light-centric transom's , anyway.
35 old-school weapon transmogs that will let you wield the Light headed into Midnight
We've known for a long time that Midnight is going to involve fighting back the tide of darkness falling across Azeroth, so when our characters answer the
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November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The light be our guide...
Well. In the form of cool, Light-centric transom's , anyway.
Well. In the form of cool, Light-centric transom's , anyway.
So what would happen if Xal'atath actually got the Sunwell? This is one of those bits of Azerothian lore that we honestly don't know (and we know a lot about Azerothian lore).
This and more discussion of the Sunwell in the latest Lore Watch podcast, which is now live!
This and more discussion of the Sunwell in the latest Lore Watch podcast, which is now live!
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
So what would happen if Xal'atath actually got the Sunwell? This is one of those bits of Azerothian lore that we honestly don't know (and we know a lot about Azerothian lore).
This and more discussion of the Sunwell in the latest Lore Watch podcast, which is now live!
This and more discussion of the Sunwell in the latest Lore Watch podcast, which is now live!
Our contest is going all weekend! Don't forget to reply with an answer to the question to enter, and also because our poor realtor really does need a vacation.
The Midnight beta test starts November 11, and we're giving away a key to the Epic Edition which includes beta access! To enter, reply with an answer to this question: Our realtor has been working overtime. Which housing plot (Horde or Alliance) should she visit for a vacation, and why? #WoW_Partner
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Our contest is going all weekend! Don't forget to reply with an answer to the question to enter, and also because our poor realtor really does need a vacation.