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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Senioritis

It's such a nice, warm, beautiful day outside! I would love to be lying in the hammock, sipping a tall lemonade, and reading a book, but instead I'm stuck in here with you people. Alas. No offense....

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Elder Scrolls Oblivion is just one game we wish would make a comeback

This week's preshow was dominated by Liz and the hot new game that makes everyone seem like a crazed conspiracy theorist when they discuss it, Blue Prince. It's a puzzle that you didn't kn...

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Tavern Watch Plays Pigeon's 11, Episode 2: Seeking the coveted pretzel trophy

This week we're bringing you another game Pigeon's 11, in which our feathered cast of criminals dives into the world of esports and culinary delights at MetzlCon. The plan: to steal t...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Pizza Night!

It is the best night of the week, with the best food for the best night of the week.

We're gonna grab a slice while we take a look back at what happened this week, and what we have to look fo...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Noblegarden: taking several years to become the cutest baby ducky

In this week's preshow we wave through the microphone. We also discuss Gundam, which Joe is very interested in, at which point Matt busts in with Garzy's Wing, which leads to a broader conversation...

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Lore Watch: Xal'atath, the Void, and the dawn of Azeroth's creation

This week's episode was inspired by a question from a listener, about where the story is going from here as we make our way toward the next expansion of World of Warcraft, Midnight View Post

Blizzard Watch Weekly: Calling in sick

Ever since Blue Prince -- which was included in this week's games post<...

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Tavern Watch Plays Pigeon's 11, Episode 1: A fine flock of felonious fowl

This week we're playing Pigeon's 11, an adventure where our fine flock of felonious fowl are getting ready for the heist of a lifetime. (Spoiler: it involves a lot of baked goods and ...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: WoW Classic goes from #SomeChanges to a whole new raid

Liz is excited about Murderbot, and explains exactly what that is in this week’s preshow. Our guest host Nick is all about Dragon Age Veilguard right now, and that leads into a ...

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Lore Watch from the Archives: Cyberpunk Edgerunners explores a crumbling dystopia

The Netflix animated show Cyberpunk Edgerunners is a great entry in the Cyberpunk universe, and one we felt worth exploring in-depth. Joe and Matt give us a spoiler-fill...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Once more into the breach

Ironwood Studios pushed a huge update to Pacific Drive earlier this week, so I'm happy to report that Mel's back, baby. There's a new set of maps called Expeditions, and a new trader ...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast: Warcraft Rumble is cute, and other April Fools' Day pranks

This week's preshow discusses how Canadians are nice because all their meanness is concentrated by eldritch ritual into their eponymic geese (true). Plus, Liz is playing Pacific Drive ...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Crucial Source Material

Sometimes it's a good idea to go back to the basics, and really dig in to the source material given. This week, we went ahead and really, really dug in to some of the most cherished stories in WoW....

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Contentment

Ah, to be a tiny rabbit made of rice, dunking a cucumber slice into a mug of steaming hot tea in a cozy breakfast nook.

Actually, no. It's Friday, I'm ordering pizza.

While I try to con...

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Are TTRPGs taking a turn away from crunchy to bring us more narrative-focused one-shots?

While there are still plenty of crunchy tabletop games out there, lately we're playing a lot of shorter TTRPGs that lean into narrative elements — and are easier to schedule than long form campai...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Diving into The Emerald Dream (in Hearthstone, don't get your hopes up)

In this week's preshow Matt is still monologuing about Godzilla. The team also talks about their plunder from the most recent Steam sale while this week's special guest Phil Ulrich slanders me abou...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Can you play Hearthstone in the Emerald Dream, and other questions

This week's Lore Watch Podcast is Q&A style, so the topics veer all over the place -- more so than usual. We start off with a question about the Emerald Dream and whether it was designed as a p...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: Springtime fun with the girlies

I've been playing my way through the games I bought during the Steam Spring Sale, and one really stands out. 2025-03-21 22:04:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Tavern Watch Plays Triangle Agency 3: Get in the briefcase

It's a tough day for the employees of Triangle Agency, but our skilled Agents are always ready to beat back any challenge — even when that challenge is a mass of anomalous electrical wires intent...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Racing to World First in the Undermine

Cory joined Joe and Liz this week to hide their shame, discussing all the games they've purchased during the Steam Sale (Wanderstop! The Long Dark! Avowed! The now-Nebula...

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Lore Watch Podcast: On the origins of the Sethrak

Join our hosts Joe Perez and Matt Rossi as they discuss the lore around the Sethrak, the snakelike humanoids we initially met in Vol'dun in Battle for Azeroth. How does their worship of th...

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Tavern Watch Plays Triangle Agency 2: An unintended (artistic) detour

Triangle Agency's agents are on the case — with a little help from corporate HQ, of course! Our highly skilled team of experts is in the process of tracking down a dangerous anomaly, but don't yo...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: What can I say except you're welcome?

If you're wondering how the site curse is going, this is a photo I took in the moment as my ph...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: BlizzCon bound, baby! (in 2026, anyway)

This week's preshow featured a discussion about how some cats really enjoy video games, and how majestic samoyeds are. This discussion does feature an unwarned spoiler for Dragon Age Ve...

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Lore Watch Podcast: Could the Sunwell become a Voidwell? (And other wild Warcraft speculation)

This week we put on the tinfoil hat to contemplate Xal'atath's plans for the future, the nature of the void, and where we might be going in the Midnight expansion due out in 2026. As ...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: mm mm good

The highlight of my week has been the Race to World First, not because I care about cutting edge raiding, but because Chef Heid...

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Tavern Watch Plays Triangle Agency 1: The Agency has your very best interests at heart!

Welcome to beautiful Ternion City, home of the Triangle Agency. In our corporate headquarters, agents are hard at work — right now! — to preserve reality. You like reality, don't you? Of course...

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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Racing our way to season 2 of The War Within

Well, this week Matt began the preshow with the strident assertion that Godzilla is a cat, and things just kinda unfolded from there. Despite working here in the word mines for 10 years I don't hav...

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Lore Watch Podcast: What you need to know about Paladins, Templars, and Crusaders in Diablo

We're doing something a little new this week for Lore Watch, with a remaster of an older episode. As Joe explains in the new intro, we wanted to highlight something that we've already covered, but ...

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Blizzard Watch Weekly: An embarrassment of riches

While I know we're all in on Blizzard Entertainment around here, when Steam Next Fest started I once again went feral. Everything from Squirrelled Away to Creepy Redneck Dinosaur ...

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