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Cyberpunk Edgerunners explores a crumbling dystopia
Episode 362
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-filled tour of Night City and how …
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Crucial Source Material
Episode 361
While we do enjoy going off on wild tangents or thinking about "what if," sometimes it's important to just go back to the crucial source material. The specific writing in-game can not only work to cr…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Can you play Hearthstone in the Emerald Dream, and other questions
Episode 360
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 prison …
Published on 3 months ago
On the origins of the Sethrak
Episode 359
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 the animalist…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Could the Sunwell become a Voidwell? (And other wild Warcraft speculation)
Episode 358
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 with most of our…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
What you need to know about Paladins, Templars, and Crusaders in Diablo
Episode 357
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 wh…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Suffer well: the lore of Death Knights in World of Warcraft
Episode 356
Death Knights, one of the most iconic, lore-heavy classes added to World of Warcraft, are the core topic of this week's Lore Watch, this time with a focus on what dead means, really. Join Joe and Mat…
Published on 4 months ago
Alliance vs Horde: can we just get along?
Episode 355
In this week's show, Matt and Joe discuss the conflict between Alliance and Horde -- and more importantly, the lack of conflict some characters may feel when they're just out there adventuring. Even …
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Why World of Warcraft's Odyn is both a Titan and a titanic jerk
Episode 354
This week's Lore Watch Podcast is a Q & A, but sometimes those questions can give us a chance to go off on a topic we love to discuss. For instance, why Odyn in World of Warcraft is just the worst. M…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Why don't the people of Sanctuary ever learn from their past?
Episode 353
This week Matt and Joe discuss how history seems to keep repeating itself in Diablo's Sanctuary. (Spoiler: it's because everyone keeps dying.) Plus pointy ears for Humans in WoW aren't just about fas…
Published on 5 months ago