Watching Blizzard, August 7: The whodunnit of a lifetime (Patreon)

Coming up

• Garrosh is landing in Heroes of the Storm tomorrow. We hope you're ready to face the game's latest hero!
• Lucioball kicks off in Overwatch tomorrow with the 2017 Summer Games, and competitive Lucioball will even award you with Competitive Points!
• The Knights of the Frozen Throne Hearthstone expansion launches Thursday, so if you want to pre-order some cards you have to do it fast. Catch up on all announced cards and everything we know about the expansion so far.

Hottest news

• Rossi continues our series about Arthas, examining his time as a servant of the Lich King.
• Meanwhile, Anne takes a look at Warcraft's ultimate whodunnit with the death (or deaths) of Chromie.
• In last week's WoW Q&A, Ion Hazzikostas had some interesting things to say about the challenge of balancing both Mythic and LFR content.
• A plethora of new pets are coming to WoW in patch 7.3, plus the new Family Fighter achievement which will reward you with the super strange felclaw marsuul.
• The WoW devs came to the rescue of the annual Tournament of Ages RP event, with a quick sharding hotfix to let everyone play together.

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