Do you remember your first trip to Ironforge? If you were a Gnome or a Dwarf, you were probably sent there around level 5 on one errand quest or another, your whole game life to date spent trekking through the snow of Dun Morogh. You can’t even see Ironforge from down there; the city is nestled in the mountains, up a steep hill, and you trek up, through the snow on foot, and the entrance slowly comes into view. And there it is, massive, so much bigger than you.

There’s a sense of grand scale that, somehow doesn’t come across in the modern game, where we would take a flight path or ride a mount or use a hearthstone to get to Ironforge without much thought. We wouldn’t trudge up to it on foot; how tedious! But there’s something to be said for the sense of scale and wonder as you walk up for the first time, or for the first time in a long time, and think about how small you are, and how large this Dwarven city is.

But I digress. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where you ask questions and I do my best to answer them. Here we go.

Every week the Epic Games Store gives away a game or two for free.

Nestled among all of the reveal-bombs at BlizzCon's opening ceremony was a rather ordinary reveal of what's coming next in Midnight's patch 12.2.

A very old Hearthstone Tavern Brawl has returned once again, and because of its ruleset, this one really shows its age.

I last used that header image in 2015. I think it was due a comeback.

That is a ridiculously cute stab at Borophagus diversidens by paleoartist Charles R. Knight. However, based on the animal’s actual skull, it likely had a much shorter muzzle and bigger lower jaw for more bone crushing power. Still, I love the detail in Knight’s sketch and he was in line with what other artists were doing when he sketched it.

World of Warcraft: Forever is the hottest title in Blizzard's catalogue, so of course we're diving in to some of the lore of Forever in this first post-BlizzCon episode.

The leaves are changing color, the temperatures are dropping, and it's time for Brewfest in World of Warcraft: Midnight!

With the amount of help — “help” — the Old Gods have given me in Battlegrounds over the years, as Anomalies release today, I feel like I might owe them something. I just made Rice Krispies treats. Do you think Yogg will go for that?

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions, but one at a time, based on this little handmade book of coupons we made. You can redeem for one answer, one hug, or even one load of laundry done. Do you think that would be enough for like, cosmos-spanning dark power? No? Shoot.

BlizzCon is over.

It's been a while since we've had such a short WoW maintenance, but today's World of Warcraft downtime is as quick as it gets with just an hour of maintenance scheduled for all realms.