Anna Bell

So, it’s not what you think — I have a major problem with storage, but again, it’s not what you think. I have a Google Pixel phone, so I use it to take photos, like you do. But in this last generation, despite it being a major selling point of the phone, they’ve started charging me for storing the photos I take on my phone, and screenshots, and all the photos of birds I take for the Merlin app. This is also tied to my email, so now until I migrate and/or delete a bunch of stuff, I can’t receive emails. Well, I can from the Old Navy marketing department, but not my kids’ schools, apparently. And now I’m also getting messages that my OneDrive, which I use exclusively for my writing and backups, is also jammed with stuff. So many people didn’t configure their OneDrive to backup the stuff they wanted backed up and complained when stuff got deleted, so now Microsoft made it so it automatically backs up your Desktop and you can’t turn that off. The desktop is where I have folders where I shove things like one-off screenshots and memes, so now my writing is all slammed in there next to gifs I thought I’d deleted almost as soon as I used them — but not from the cloud.

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and I’ll answer just as soon as I finish deleting this terabyte of memes I didn’t even want.

It's that time of year when everyone starts advertising stuff for fall, but it's still like, 85 degrees out where I live.

Midnight and Gamescom were the core topic of this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast.

This week Epic Games is offering up two games for free that have fun, unique twists and turns to explore -- literally.

With the rigidity of the structure of the Kirin Tor and the Jedi Order, and their propensity for keeping secrets about power -- and sometimes that power for themselves -- there are a ton of parallels between these two organizations.

The expansion name Midnight is excellent because it’s rich with meaning — it implies and conjures the image of many different things, from colors to the doomsday clock. However, from an editorial point of view, I’m a little flummoxed because it feels like there should be so many more puns available to me with this name. And yet, it’s mostly just sloppy entendres so far.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions, and we’ll mid-write them for you. Is that anything?

This week was dominated by the Midnight infodump from gamescom.

If you thought this week's show would be entirely about the new Midnight trailer and the information we're getting out of gamescom, you would be right.

This week Epic Games is offering up two cozy games that are favorites on the site for free, so you should definitely go grab them while you can.

Blizzard just gave us a look at the cinematic for their next expansion Midnight, and it seems literally anticlimatic.