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Expansion

How to win the Black Empire Recipe Hearthstone Tavern Brawl

The Reign of the Black Empire expansion has just been released for Hearthstone, and as is tradition, the Recipe Tavern Brawl is here on the first week, to let players get a taste of the new cards and mechanics for each class. This brawl pits deck recipe against deck recipe, so j…

Yesterday at 9:00 PM Blizzard Watch

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Expansion

The next Hearthstone expansion is Reign of the Black Empire, releasing October 20

As expected from their recent teasers on social media, the new Hearthstone expansion will take us back to cosmos-spanning adventures: Reign of the Black Empire brings the Old Gods back to Hearthstone — again — but this time, things seem more serious. We’re going back in time, se…

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General News

WoW Forever stress test is scheduled for October 21; here’s what you need to know

We’re less than a month from the launch of World of Warcraft: Forever, and the beta test has been in full swing. However, there’s one feature in WoW: Forever that’s brand new to this version, which is realmless servers: essentially, all players within a single region who share a…

Monday at 9:00 PM Blizzard Watch

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General News

The Queue: The Black Empire

The Black Empire is coming. Again. There’s an enormous multi-tentacled creature blotting out the sun, and he comes to bring you love. Or death, I dunno. This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where the only question that truly matters is: who is the best Old God?

Friday at 7:00 PM Blizzard Watch

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Release

When is WoW: Midnight patch 12.1.7 release date? Our best guess is December 2026

It’s already time to talk about World of Warcraft patch 12.1.7: Echoes of the Worldcore. Blizzard has wasted no time in propelling Midnight along to its inevitable conclusion by announcing patch 12.1.7 (some of which we already knew about from BlizzCon), a light-weight patch tha…

Friday at 12:00 AM Blizzard Watch

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Hotfix

The Queue: Lizdormi checking in

It’s patch week in World of Warcraft, for better and for worse, and I’m just checking in to see how everyone is doing out there. Hitting up the new raid? Checking out the Labyrinths? Experiencing perfectly wonderful new content that does nothing but spark joy? …no? Well, we’ll h…

October 15, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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Expansion

How to win the Black Empire Brawliseum Pre-Release Hearthstone Tavern Brawl

Hearthstone is getting its next expansion, Reign of the Black Empire, next week, on October 20, and as usual the pre-release Hearthstone Tavern Brawl arrives just before launch day. If you already have any Reign of the Black Empire packs — whether you got them for free, from dro…

October 15, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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General News

Lore Watch Podcast: Just another Shadowsong, and more stories from the Void

One of the most interesting things about World of Warcraft: Forever is the possibility for new story development, and that’s how we got tangled up in the question of an NPC named Shadowsong in the beta. Is it one of those Shadowsongs? Probably not. (It’s a common name.) But coul…

October 14, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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General News

The Queue: Here be dragons

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and sometimes we have some answers but sometimes the questions are just out there, man.

October 13, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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Maintenance

It’s an extra-long maintenance day for the launch of World of Warcraft patch 12.1.5, but all server…

It’s patch day for Midnight servers, and that means extended maintenance for World of Warcraft. Modern players face a full eight hours of downtime for the rollout of patch 12.1.5, but WoW Classic players are safe with just the standard hour of downtime. Here’s the WoW maintenanc…

October 13, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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Store Promotion

World of Warcraft: Midnight patch 12.1.5 will release on October 13, 2026!

Like a snake, or maybe like a raid full of snakes, time slithers ever-forward — and with the march of time, comes a new patch for World of Warcraft. No sooner had Midnight patch 12.1 and its treasure trove of scaly goodies dropped into our lap like a bundle of joy horror than it…

October 12, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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General News

The Queue: Stuffed

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m thankful for the amount of turkey and gravy I was able to eat. I’m also thankful for all of you here reading this right now! You all rock. While I go take a post-turkey nap, it’s time for our daily question-and-answer column — The Queue!

October 12, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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General News

Blizzard Watch Weekly: Looking forward to Labyrinths

World of Warcraft patch 12.1.5 launches this week, and I’m looking forward to checking out the first Labyrinth, the Troll tomb Kindo’jan, when it goes live on Tuesday. Even though this is a “minor” patch, it’s pretty packed with new features, including a new one-boss raid (inter…

October 12, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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General News

The Burning Crusade Classic anniversary realms launch Phase 3.5 on October 22

The Burning Crusade Classic anniversary realms are finally getting the next phase of content on October 22, 2026 at 3pm pacific (6pm eastern). Phase 3.5 is more of a mini-phase but it still features a new raid, Zul’Aman, and updates to previously released raids and dungeons as w…

October 9, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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General News

The Queue: Modern Forever

With WoW Forever entering the discussion, people have started calling Retail WoW “Modern WoW” now. The questions, then, become: will you play Modern WoW forever? Is WoW Forever modern enough for you? This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we ponder our orbs and try to cre…

October 9, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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General News

Blizzard Watch Podcast: Dalaran attunements, and more Azerothian end game pastimes

This week the crew is joined by Lore Watch co-host Eric O’Dea, and it’s great that he’s here, because this week was all about end game. No, not raiding, though Sunder Armor is back in Forever, which gives us a quick nostalgia hit. Instead we’re talking about the transmogs from t…

October 9, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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General News

Every unique and updated Priest racial ability in WoW: Forever

One of the most distinguishing features of the Priest class in vanilla (and Classic) WoW has been its race-specific abilities. Unlike almost all the other classes in the game, Priests originally received one ability at level 10 and another at level 20 that were, by and large, co…

October 9, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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Expansion

Collecting new player housing decor in patch 12.1.5 will take us on a tour of past expansions

World of Warcraft Player Housing is getting mountains of new decor in patch 12.1.5. In addition to the new holiday decor and the new crafting recipes, there are also mountains of new items scattered around in zones from previous expansions. To access most of these decor items yo…

October 8, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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General News

The Queue: It’s Thursday (again)

Yesterday was Wednesday, and to be honest I wasn’t sure how we managed to get halfway through the week without me noticing. But now it’s Thursday and we’ve gotten more than halfway through the week without me noticing. Time is tough, man. Who can keep track of this stuff? I’m no…

October 8, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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Release

The Epic Games Store is giving away TerraScape and Out Of Sight for free this week

Every week the Epic Games Store gives away a game or two for free. This week, they’re giving us a cozy city builder puzzle game and a creepy FPS puzzle game for free. TerraScape Release Date: July 17, 2024 Game Type: Puzzle, Casual, Cozy POV: 3rd person, hex, isometric Party: Si…

October 8, 2026 Blizzard Watch

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