Mitch and I had a great time streaming the cute little game of Penguin Colony last night, in which you are a penguin sliding around a serene antarctic landscape, and also some other things happen. I won’t bore you with the details, but I do have penguins on the brain today.

But we can talk about more than penguins. We can even talk about more animals than penguins, so we should get started on that. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I do my best to answer whatever questions you throw at me.

Every week the Epic Games Store gives away a game or two for free.

It's hard find good help these days, but we're here to help with the Hearthstone Henchmania Tavern Brawl, in which the League of E.V.I.L.

Why?

• They make it easier to organize my thoughts
• Often I sit down and use a bulleted list to group together related ideas
  • For example, using a subsidiary bullet to list an idea complimentary to a previous full bullet point
  • Like you could have a bullet saying Theropods and then several sub-bullets like Extinct Theropods with all the various groups like:
    • Carcharadontosaurs
    • Ceratosaurs
    • Megalosaurs
    • Coelurosaurs
      • Extinct Coelurosaurs
      • Extant Coelurosaurs aka birds

Now, let’s Queue this.

Lore Watch Podcast starts off with a dive into the lore of the Midsummer Fire Festival, particularly since so much was added over the past few years.

We recently heard yet another update promising that there is a team working hard on creating The Elder Scrolls 6, although there was nothing of substance beyond assuring us that it's Bethesda's "primary development focus." After all this time, it's reasonable to ask: what are you even hoping for from the sixth installment at this point?

Last week's Gen Con was a focal point for Dungeons & Dragons, as the previously thin calendar of upcoming releases was filled out with familiar names, old haunts, surprising horrors, and iconic villains.

The waiting on patch day is the hardest part. It’s like being 8 and it’s Christmas morning, but also like you’re a responsible adult who has columns to write, or whatever. But man am I distracted today.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and I don’t have anything better to do today than answer them I guess.

If you've been making dyes to color the furniture in your World of Warcraft character's house, you might be caught off guard by an upcoming change -- but don't worry, it's just a lead in to a really good update for the dye system.

It's a pretty modest maintenance day for World of Warcraft, with a quick hour of downtime for Mists of Pandaria and The Burning Crusade, and a relatively short two-hour maintenance for Midnight and WoW Classic.