Anna Bell
Nintendo Switch 2 officially releases June 5, 2025
Along with several other features, today's Nintendo Switch 2 Direct gave us a release date for the highly anticipated console: June 5, 2025, with preorders beginning April 8.
ZeniMax Workers United union authorizes a strike by overwhelming vote
ZeniMax Workers United, represented by the Communication Workers of America local 2100, 2108, and 6215, have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike, after current negotations have dragged on for over two years.
The Queue: Just another tuesday
I have a doctor’s appointment in a little bit, and I need to make sure I get the laundry in before that so it has time to run so I can dry it. I’ll probably vacuum a bit later. Maybe go get a coffee if I’m good at the doctor’s.
Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll give you the answers, just like every other day.
Lore Watch Podcast: Crucial source material
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.
Blizzard Watch Weekly: Contentment
Ah, to be a tiny rabbit made of rice, dunking a cucumber slice into a mug of steaming hot tea in a cozy breakfast nook.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: Diving into the Emerald Dream (in Hearthstone, don’t get your hopes up)
Hearthstone's new expansion Into the Emerald Dream was our lead story this week, as the two sides don't seem all that well balanced between good and morally gray, let's say.
This week’s free games on the Epic Games Store are Cat Quest and Neko Ghost, Jump!
This week's Epic Games Store free offering is two games, both of which involve a ton of action, a send-up of a popular genre, and a cat protagonist.
Lore Watch Podcast: Can you play Hearthstone in the Emerald Dream, and other questions
This week's Lore Watch Podcast is Q&A style, so the topics veer all over the place -- more so than usual.
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions releases a new Cozy Kitchens DLC to help with your food preparation productivity
If you're already bought in to the concept of one of our most played games of 2024 (and secret productivity lifehack) Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, the new Cozy Kitchen DLC will offer you more of the same, and then some.
The Queue: Good Mornin!
Every so often when I drop into the comments to find questions for the Queue, you all instantly earworm me. There are worse things, I suppose, like living in the apartment beneath Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor at 2 am.
This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we say good mornin, good mornin, to you.