Blizzard Watch

Since Player Housing hit the PTR last week -- for a briefer time than any of us realized -- we had a lot of Housing-related stuff to talk about. Lots of community members took their testing time to do things like build huge mechs made out of wagons in the backyard. Neat! Player Housing just does a lot of stuff like that. But for every high there must be a low, and this week, that was the discussio...

The three Blizzard Watch Podcast amigos had a ton of  Midnight  news to discuss this week. They would have had more housing stuff to discuss, but the public PTR that was going to let us finally dig in was unceremoniously yanked off the schedule with no ETA. Surprise, it was released late Thursday, and it's still ending an hour after this podcast gets posted. Welp! Unsurprisingly, Matt sa...

Liz had the good fortune to make her way into the  Midnight  alpha, so this week's episode is a round of Ask A Beta Tester. Liz regaled us with discussion on the various housing plots available, some of how the talent changes and stat squish feels, plus what it looks like in a post-add on  WoW  (we're assuming more Friz Quadrata than we've opted for on the live servers). Also,...

This week our hosts Liz and Joe were joined by Nick, our  WoW Classic  expert. While they waited very impatiently for the next round of news about  Midnight , they talked about the new trend in  Classic,  to use addons to make Hardcore mode even more Hardcore by obscuring certain heads up data in the UI. When is enough enough? But that wasn't all. There was a new Trading P...

This week, we got the announcement that the alpha for  World of Warcraft 's next expansion  Midnight  is beginning in just a few weeks. Blizzard ran down some of the content we'll be seeing and roughly when, which was a hot topic for the cohosts this week. Everything seems to be coming out October 2, from the  Midnight  alpha to Naxxramas in the  WoW Classic  Ann...

We're joined by Cory for this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast. There's no one big news item this week, but lots of tidbits around a ton of different games. For instance, Brewfest begins next week, and there's a new mount and some transmog, but everything else is same ol same ol. There's a  Diablo 4  seasonal switchover coming soon with a very horrifyingly cute fox pet, plus a whole lot of&...

This week our writer Christian Thoma joined the mayhem that is the Blizzard Watch Podcast. Speaking of mayhem and the Blizzard Watch Podcast, you may recall that last week's episode ended on a bit of a cliffhanger, as the hosts discovered that, while they were recording the podcast, Blizzard released 14 blog posts detailing all the announcements that happened at Gamescom. This week, they discussed...

The litany of  Midnight  updates and information continues with things ranging from UI updates to dual wielding baguettes. Of course, we pore over every tiny crumb of Player Housing info, as the upcoming truest true end game. Our staff Druid Cory joined us, with an appeal for more Druid forms -- there are a few from the teasers we've seen that he is specifically writing to Santa Metzen a...

Midnight  and Gamescom were the core topic of this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast. A big part of the discussion centered on just how odd -- and, frankly, frustrating -- the way the information disseminated throughout the convention. Events posted late, misinformation, and illogical choices plagued the newest expansion's reveal. We're still excited for Player Housing, but there could be more we...

If you thought this week’s show would be entirely about the  new  Midnight  trailer  and the information we’re getting out of gamescom, you would be right. Site writer Rob Flanagan (who we all call Flan) joined Joe, Matt, and Liz to discuss the news, which included a heated discussion of Blood Elf lore, and whether we’ll miss our ol Delving buddy Brann. It’s a split house on al...

This week our host is our special guest, Liz Patt, who has a lot of opinions on  Diablo , but she's also here for a discussion of patch 11.2. The team love Tazavesh, 10/10 city, no notes, though they remain a little skeptical of Broker culinary pursuits. We also looked at the Race to World First, which is underway as raid guilds contend to see who can get the first Mythic kill of Dimensius. P...

This week patch 11.2 finally released, and we have the rundown of all the features for you, including the new World Boss, which was up this week -- surprise! We have a lot of opinions on the new Delve and dungeon and raid their collective lack of smooth Goblin jazz. We especially have thoughts on the new Cooldown Manager, which is slightly less "as seen on Temu." Plus, as the servers came up, some...

Cory joined us for this week's show, and by coincidence there was also a  Heroes of the Storm  patch the day they recorded. What are the odds? Not very good, if you ask Cory. There was also a new  Hearthstone  Battlegrounds season to discuss. We're all very much looking forward to next week, when patch 11.2 finally releases, and we learn more about what Xal'atath has cooking. T...

If you're dipping your feet into the newly released Mists of Pandaria Classic you probably have some time to listen to us chat about it -- though it seems like the bottlenecks of spawns from the starting experience back in the day have been hotfixed. Back in our day, it took two weeks of complaints, uphill both ways, to get a single tweet acknowledging a bug even exists. Ah, memories. This on...

Player Housing was up first in the lineup of topics for this show, because of course it is. Every bit of new info we get, we're excited about -- though Joe is a bit concerned about the concept of leveling up our house. There are a bunch of new appearances to get across a number of franchises, too. Plus, how many legs does a crocolisk have to have in order to be classed as a crocolisk, anyhow? A sp...

Ghosts of K'aresh and its newly announced release date were the first topic in this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast, which is likely to be the final patch for this expansion. Story spoilers weren't shared, but we are excited to find out where we're going next. Our guest host Cory joined us since he's one of our resident  Warcraft Rumble  experts, and unfortunately that skill set is conside...

This week's Blizzard Watch Podcast begins with a discussion of several of the raccoons currently in the  WoW  trenchcoat --  Mists of Pandaria Classic  is imminent, and there's a whole bunch of new stuff coming to retail  WoW , from the Trading Post seasonal turnover to the Greedy Emissary event. And the best news is, almost all of it involves adding to our transmog collec...

Ghosts of K'aresh, the upcoming content update for  World of Warcraft , is the lead news for the show this week, because it was announced with a ton of detail the day after the podcast was recorded last week. Led by this week's host Joe, our crew discussed all things patch 11.2, from Tazavesh to Manaforge Omega, and where the story might lead us next. Speaking of the story,  Overwatch 2...

We had two special guests this week: Phil Ulrich and Nick Marino were on hand to discuss the launch of patch 11.1.7. From Lorewalking to Timewalking to Overcharged Delves to the new one-button feature, there is a ton of stuff to discuss in patch 11.1.7. But of course,  WoW  isn't the only game with a ton of stuff going on.  Overwatch 2  just put out a ton of information about t...

While we did want to discuss some Blizzard news this week -- including the frankly hilarious Dastardly Duos shirt bug -- the biggest news of the week was the reams of announcements and trailers that came out of Summer Game Fest. From  The Outer Worlds 2  to Failbetter's next offering, the farm sim  Mandrake, to  Relooted , a hate letter to the British Museum, there were games o...

This week our writer Nick Marino joined the lineup to talk about  WoW Classic  -- several iterations of it. Joyous Journeys is coming back to  Cata Classic ,  Mists Classic  is launching soon, and Season of Discovery servers will keep on truckin', even if all the Discoveries have already been Discovered. Plus,  Heroes of the Storm  turns 10 and there's a whole bu...

During this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast, the conversation started off with  WoW , specifically the upcoming  Mists of Pandaria Classic , and just how many  Classics  there are now. Cory was our guest host, so of course they had to talk  Heroes of the Storm  for a little while. It's like a rule of the internet, like how you are legally obligated to repost that one vi...

This week's Blizzard Watch Podcast kicks off with the new hotness -- or maybe old hotness. Horrific Visions return this week in  World of Warcraft . There are head enchants to collect, but no keys, which is great news for people who did these back in the day. The new player housing preview from a smattering of other content creators with an emphasis on neighborhoods has us revisiting the poss...

In this week's podcast we talked about the reveals from the  WoW  team that came out of PAX East.  Legion  Remix has us particularly excited, but nothing is as exciting as the wild speculation we can do about those upcoming quote-unquote "experimental modes." Plus,  Clair Obscur 's wild success -- and the wild? success that was  Heroes of the Storm . And speaking of w...

The Infinite Pirate Dragon is, of course, the top story this week on the Blizzard Watch Podcast. It comes in patch 11.1.7 as a part of Turbulent Timeways, and while we're unsure that it has anything to do with the Arathi narratively, that's what headcanon is for. Our resident  Diablo  expert Liz Patt joined our regular hosts Matt, Liz, and Joe to explain the mess that is the  Diablo...