The Queue

You are all on punishment for not notifying me that Easter is this Sunday. Add on one more thing to my to-do list.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll give you answers just as soon as we finish stuffing all these dang plastic eggs.

That’s not me in the picture… yet! I’ll get there for sure, any day now…

In other news I’m digging my time in the Plunderstorm and am glad that Blizzard took the chance on this fun new thing. I never in a million years would’ve guessed that it was what was going to be in the 10.2.6 patch, but here we are!

While I wait for my parrot to divebomb me back into the world, it’s time for — The Queue!

Friday is a time of eternal flux, eternal complexity. Let us question it.

I play a lot of games and I am always hitting moments I completely find compelling or fun or interesting. And then, once I am done playing them — and usually much later, hours or days later — I realize that I should have screenshotted or recorded it. By then, however, I’ve moved way past it, and going back would either be a process of hours of gameplay from an old save, or with games like Diablo 4, literally starting the whole game over again.

So anyway, I had a whole lot of Baldur’s Gate 3 stuff I was gonna talk about, but then I realized I forgot to take the SS of me talking to an angry bird, so here we are.

Pirates are cool and all, but ninjas are where it’s at.

So it’s not a return to Island Expeditions?

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’re just as in the dark as you are so here we go.

Do you ever think that the bosses we fight in raids are just bullies? That if they ever had to fight someone their own size they’d give up and just let us get past without putting up a real fight. Probably while muttering something about how we were lucky they had somewhere to be just then and if it was any other day they’d pound us into the ground.

Well, unfortunately, even after growing my Paladin into the Jolly Green Giant with a Jolly Green Polearm — Igira still made us fight her like normal! Very rude in my opinion. Maybe I need to be bigger…

While I try and figure out the glitch that is growing mounts to Godzilla size around the Hearthstone event, it’s time for — The Queue!

Friday keeps sneaking up on me, leaving me with a worrying pile of things still on my to do list. But it’s Friday, and that means it’s time for a family meeting: let’s talk about what’s been going on this week and, most especially, patch 10.2.6.

It’s okay to not be good at something you enjoy doing.

Dragonflight patch 10.2.6 did not arrive this week despite the eight-hour downtime yesterday, which means next week is a prime candidate for its arrival. Which wouldn’t normally be a problem, except this is the list of everything else happening in the video game world next week:

• Hearthstone is releasing their next expansion Whizbang’s Workshop
• Hi-Fi Rush and Rise of the Ronin are arriving on the PS5
• Princess Peach: Showtime! is arriving for the Nintendo Switch
• Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition is releasing for PC
• Alone in the Dark and Dragon’s Dogma 2 are coming out on all next-gen platforms (sorry, Switch owners) and PC
• And for sports fans it’s time for MLB The Show ’24 on all consoles

That’s an insane number of major titles to come out in the same week, especially in March. Perhaps everyone is afraid to release against South Park: Snow Day the following week?

While I ponder whether these game releases are the true March Madness, let’s answer some questions!