The fifth (and barring any dramatic changes, final) phase of Mists of Pandaria Classic will launch worldwide on June 2, 2026, once the weekly maintenance finishes, which is usually between 8am-9am pacific time.

We have a very old Hearthstone Tavern Brawl returning this week: the Shadow Towers were last seen ten years ago!

I mean, it’s kind of hard for me to believe it when people tell me that Diablo 4 is an ARPG and not How I Met Everyone’s Mother with my burly Barbarian regaling her presumably winged children with the story of how she met Lilith.

Come on, she’s literally telling me how much I need her up there. It’s not subtle.

We lead off the week with the history of the most important lore figure of all time to World of Warcraft: Millhouse Manastorm.

On the Tavern Watch Podcast, we don't like to just talk about tabletop RPGs: we like to play them, too.

I’m not sure what the etymology of the phrase “it’s got the juice” comes from. I am nearly positive it was a phrase used to reference a particular piece of media being an excellent example of form long before the song (though anything featuring Janelle Monet immediately has the juice). I don’t think it’s a direct reference to that viral clip of that kid eating corn from back when every viral clip was immediately turned into an autotuned song, but it is plausible. As an eating experience, grilled corn on the cob definitely has the juice.

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll answer — if we got the juice.

Today's WoW maintenance isn't too bad, but it is longer than usual: all World of Warcraft servers are scheduled to be offline for two hours of maintenance.

There are so many great mothers in Blizzard’s games. A lot more than in Disney movies for some reason…

I still think that the best Warcraft one is Alexstraza. It’s not easy being a mother to so many fire-breathing children. That she can still treat us, the players (other than Death Knights), as nicely as she does is impressive. She’d be well within her rights to ignore the world and go spend all of her time at a spa, relaxing.

While I go find some Pandaren extra giant cucumber slices for her to put over her eyes, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

In Tavern Watch's finale of our three-part run of See You Space Cowboy, our tenacious bounty hunters have tracked the NFTHound and his remaining cronies to an unmarked warehouse, full of cheaply-paid goons and a bunch of impressionable youth that the villain is trying to sway to the side of his sleazy world of electronic currency and extremely expensive digital pictures of ugly apes.

We're in a bit of a lull for Blizzard news this week, as World of Warcraft settles into patch 12.0.5, Diablo 4 settles into its latest expansion, and Classic waits for its next phases to launch (coming soon!).