Every week the Epic Games Store gives away a game or two for free. This week, we get one sequel to a cute lil girlypop beat em up game, and an existential crisis in game form. River City Girls 2 Release Date: December 15, 2022 Game Type: Beat Em Up, Adventure POV: 3rd person, Sidescroller...

Turbulent Timeways has returned during World of Warcraft’s patch 12.0.7, starting June 30 and running through August 11. Turbulent Timeways is a favorite of mount collectors and leveling enthusiasts alike, in which we get multiple weeks of Timewalking dungeons in a row — perfect for building up a stockpile of Timewarped Badges — as well...

Hearthstone‘s next expansion, Escape From Violet Hold launches July 7, and we’re getting a pre-release Tavern Brawl where, as usual, we can open the new expansion packs in advance! If you already have Violet Hold packs you might have gotten from bundles, events, or drops, you can open them and use any new cards you...

Here are some things to keep in mind about whether or not we have to start having memorials to Suchomimus, the Spinosaurid that has recently been in the Dinosaur loving news because a recent paper indicated that Cristatusaurus and Suchomimus may in fact have been the same animal. Why does that matter? Because if they are, then Suchomimus — the animal with more complete fossils — would become Cristatusaurus because it was named first and in taxonomy the first described specimen has naming priority.

 

The Loa of death Bwonsamdi is the first topic in this week’s Lore Watch Podcast. Bwonsamdi was everywhere in Battle for Azeroth, even being a major driver of events in that expansion. But now that we have a whole Troll area packed with Loa in Midnight, he hasn’t joined the party yet. Why? He seems...

With the Lord of Hatred expansion, I think it’s fair to say that Diablo 4 finally has a story that feels complete. That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more expansions, but the conclusion of this Mephisto-focused trilogy leaves the game on solid narrative footing. To experience the story in full, I decided to see...

Diablo 4 Season 14: Season of Death Awakening is now live, adding your standard seasonal invasion of Sanctuary, featuring throngs of enemies and a new Big Bad to thwart, with a Pandemonium theme. But while past seasonal themes have had a certain sameness to the player experience, Season 14 veers off the usual road straight...

It’s too frickin hot for cogent thought, apologies.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’ll answer — if you can find us!

It’s been nearly a year, but the World of Warcraft secret finding community on Discord has finally located a dimension-traveling Purrkin that has eluded them since it was first revealed during our trip to K’aresh. We tip our collective mystery-solving hat to Aerinis, Colearu, and Mat, who teamed up to chase down this lost kitty...

Don’t let the July celebrations fool you because the theme at the World of Warcraft Trading Post this month is red, blue, and dead. Most of the items are red and blue variants of each other to match the American holiday but lately the Trading Post has started to cycle in stock from previous years...

Ah, the cactus. Truly the most tsundere of plants. Dangerous on the outside, but secretly surviving on minimal amounts of affection. Touch it wrong? It retaliates. Neglect it completely, leaving it abandoned in some forlorn corner of a convention hall? Somehow, it thrives.

This is The Queue, your daily Q&A column where I’m not Cory, and I’m writing two Queues in a row. It happens sometimes. Just like love for a spiky plant, adeptly captured in a liminal picture.

Everything has been coming up Warcraft recently, as WoW patch 12.0.7’s launch led directly to WoW patch 12.1’s announcement, but this week is about Diablo. Diablo 3 just started a new season, and Diablo 4 is just about to start a new season, its first full-featured season since the Lord of Hatred expansion launched. Though...

After their adorable cinematic and skin collaboration with Overwatch, Le Sserafim closed out BlizzCon 2023, and now we’re ready to party til it’s early with our girlies for BlizzCon 2026 as they return to do the same. This will now technically kick off the band’s 2026 North American tour, with the first official date being...

If you were imprisoned in Dalaran’s maximum security prison for beings from all across the cosmos, Violet Hold, what would you do? Would you attempt a daring escape, or would you just accept your fate and wait for the heroes to inevitably come in, beat you up just for being there, and probably loot your pants on the way out? Look, I don’t know what you did but I ain’t no snitch.

This is The Queue, our daily column where we’re here to answer Qs and bribe some guards, and we’re all out of guards.

Do you remember how last week we were talking about how voidy and purple the Midnight expansion has been? Well, hold on to your shorts, because patch 12.1 has been announced and it’s acid green and snaky. We’re shook, but especially Liz, who doesn’t particularly enjoy snakes, and wishes there was a filter like arachnophobia mode, where...

Diablo 4 went hard on RNG in the expansion, and it isn’t backing down. But it’s long since hit the point where I’m exhausted of fighting it and getting the “right” piece of gear for my build. And yet the RNG perseveres, when I do not. There is no defeating it; it will always loom over us, in every hour of every day of every game. We are slaves to this torment.

But while I continue to mourn my loot chances, let’s answer some questions. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I make an attempt to answer your questions.

Every week the Epic Games Store gives away a game or two for free. This week, we get one absolute classic game, and one unique handdrawn action platformer for free. Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Complete Edition Release Date: September 24, 2020 Game Type: Simulation, Strategy POV: 3rd person Party: Single Player DLC: None Roller Coaster...

Diablo 3 Season 38 was the second time we’d seen the Ethereal Memory theme since the game started recycling themes, and returned us to our rose-tinted memories of Diablo 2 — ironically, falling right after the release of the Diablo 2 Resurrected Warlock. But Season 38 ended unannounced last week, on June 21, and we’re...

On June 24, 2006 I completed a quest that began in a Molten Core raid. I stood in a baking hot Seattle (technically Kirkland) back yard and married Julian, who came down from Canada and began the long, strange trip that has brought us to this day. We saw the Warcraft movie together. We stood in line for four expansions, and leveled together for decades. 20 years later, I am still Busbandon and they are still Gwifelor.

Thank you, Julian, for all of it. I love you.

This week’s Hearthstone Tavern Brawl takes us to the Battle of Tol Barad. In World of Warcraft, Tol Barad is a world PVP zone where the Alliance and Horde battle over the island prison and its magical inhabitants. In the Brawl, the magical creatures are escaping and it’s up to you to restore order. Tavern...