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.

There is the lightest chill on the wind that rustles the slowly crisping leaves left at the tips of the branches of the trees this morning. Sure, it’s noon and it’s like, 75 degrees out now, but you know what this means.

It is officially Soup Season. Congratulations and best wishes to all who celebrate.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and honestly we’re just trying to decide between butternut squash with sage or minestrone. Maybe a tortilla-style with the last of the fresh corn and some cubed sweet potato for body? Hmm.

It's a long maintenance day in World of Warcraft no matter what you play.

We're less than a month from the launch of World of Warcraft: Forever, and the beta test has been in full swing.

It’s my birthday! Today, this very day!

Of course, if you want to have a week-long celebration to properly observe it, I won’t stop you. Just make sure you watch lots of spooky things and tell someone a joke. Jokes and spooky things sum me up pretty well now that I think of it. Here’s a couple just for you, guaranteed groaners.

How do you know when a skeleton is sick? It runs a high femur!

Why do ghosts like to ride in elevators? It really raises their spirits!

While I think of some more wonderful spooky puns, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Deep in the bowels of the vampirate-laden Maelstrom, our scurvy scallyways discover something truly unexpected: an entire forest, inside the hull of a ship.

World of Warcraft patch 12.1.5 has been live for just under a week, so of course it's already time to talk about patch 12.1.7, which Blizzard revealed last week.

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?

This week is patch 12.1.5 in World of Warcraft, which isn't a big patch but it has some story content we aren't happy about and Labyrinths that we are happy about.

World of Warcraft: Forever has thoroughly embraced the "some changes" ethos, and First Aid has gotten some big improvements.