Anna Bell

It’s funny. It seems like almost nothing makes me more tired than having a few days where I’m forced to essentially do nothing. Not sure if my body just really likes doing nothing, or if it just kinda… gives in, and tries to catch up, but man, I’m feeling it today.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’ll… get around to answering at some point, after we lie down for just a second.

Cold? Me? Nah.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’re just gonna take a little nap. Just a lil one. It’s fine, we’re fine. No, it’s not that cold. Hand me my oodie, would you?

Midnight's prepatch kicked off this week, and we're talking Player Housing Neighborhood Endeavors -- in part because we hadn't seen much of them until now.

The subtitle for this game is "Grand Theft Horse," and Rustler seems to fulfill some of the zany violence and mayhem of the GTA franchise in a medieval-style ambiance.

This week Joe is joined by our writer Eric O'Dea to discuss Blood Ties, the newest WoW novel.

We're waiting on a whole lot this week -- servers to come up for the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary realms pre-patch, and for the Midnight pre-patch next week, and all the sweeping changes that brings.

Before the next game in the series Styx: Blades of Greed comes out in February, the Styx series is making its first appearance on the Epic Games Store -- and to celebrate, the previous two entries in this series are free this week.

Yesterday Google told me that, despite “free unlimited backups for photos taken with this phone on Drive” being a whole selling point of the phone, I was now over my limit, somehow. So they immediately removed my ability to save any documents in Drive — which is kind of crucial for a writer! — or backup photos to the cloud, and told me they’re going to shut off the email address I’ve had for 20 years unless I start deleting stuff off the cloud. Should I blow away videos of my kids to be able to save the novel I’ve been working on for almost 2 years now? They do have a solution though — I could pay them a subscription for extra backup space. It’s a trifle, really.

So, of course, I’ve spent the last 24 hours converting everything I possibly can and burning everything google to the ground. Ente photos, Proton Mail, LibreOffice, and Scrivener all have my business now. As an added bonus, Scrivener’s corkboard system will likely replace a lot of what I use Notion for, which I’ve been trying to replace since they went so all-in on AI they told me I should make Dante’s Divine Comedy into an escape room.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’ll answer. We’re kind of busy though, and the answers will likely be petty and spiteful.

It's 2026, and the more things change, the more they stay the same.

This week the Epic Games Store is giving away another great game for free.