Watching Blizzard: Welcome to the weekend! (Patreon)

Are you ready for the weekend? I'm ready for the weekend... and the parade of esports that comes with it. If you have some downtime this weekend, there's plenty of Overwatch, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm esport action to binge watch.

But while we wait to see how these tournaments play out, here's the latest news from the Blizzardverse.

Wondering about Allied Races?

• Rachelle runs down everything we know about Battle for Azeroth's new races.

Overwatch has your requisite dose of cute

• The Overwatch team will be releasing some new cosmetic items next week, and they've been teasing us with one adorable item after another.

Your twice-weekly dose of lore

• Rossi covers the Twilight Hammer in the latest Know Your Lore.

The low level game has changed in patch 7.3.5

• Here's what leveling is like in the game's latest patch.
• And regardless of how you feel about the current pace of leveling, you can now transmog your puny starting weapon into Ashkandi starting at level 1 — a definite gameplay improvement.

More balance changes for StarCraft 2

• This time, changes are coming for co-op commanders. (The last round of balance changes were all about units.)

That's everything for today, readers, but don't fear because we'll see you back again on Monday!