Anna Bell

This week around the office was mostly dominated by the World of Warcraft team giving us a teeny tidbit of news about Player Housing.

Liz hosted the Blizzard Watch podcast this week, with Joe and occasional guest host Phil Ulrich, and there is so much to talk about going on all at the same time.

If you like fish, the Epic Games Store free game this week, Beyond Blue, is sure to be a favorite.

This week's Lore Watch Podcast is a Q & A, but sometimes those questions can give us a chance to go off on a topic we love to discuss.

Any community that’s been around as long as we have will have some degree of associated lore. Some of it is tidbits about the people themselves — how Cory loves the muppets, or how Mitch is Mitch. But there are some aspects that are a little more intangible. One of those is broadly classed as The Site Curse. This usually manifests in having the Queue break in weird technical ways, but is also associated in some way with the people, and how news just seem to always happen when we’re all indisposed in some way. For instance, I planned a trip to London thinking I was safe, and oops, those are the same dates Diablo 4 dropped their first expansion. Sorry! I’ll try to be less cursed next time.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions, and we’ll hopefully supply some answers, assuming the column saves properly.

It's Lunar New Year, so everything is snake-themed, even the hairstyles.

The discussion starts with WoW news, especially the three-kids-in-a-trenchcoat that is Classic, and how it's once again time to respect your Elders with the Lunar Festival returning this week.

This week's Epic Games Store free game is Undying, a survival game centered on the narrative of a mother trying to raise her son to continue to survive the zombie apocalypse -- after she's already been bitten.

This week Matt and Joe discuss how history seems to keep repeating itself in Diablo's Sanctuary.

The Year of the Snake is upon us, and while I do feel bad for people who aren’t all about the reptiles, I tend to enjoy them. It’s funny though, because I’d joined a few snake ID groups on Reddit just for my own backyard. I find most North American venomous snakes are extremely threatening looking — all spikes and glares and triangular heads and rattles. But the thing is, Reddit is international, so I’ve been learning about snakes from all around the world, and while the Russel’s viper and puff adders and cobras are much the same in terms of being clearly somebody to not screw with, I would absolutely be that idiot trying to handle the cute little Australian venomous guys. They call one of them — a cute little smooth stripey guy — the bandy bandy! But he’s crazy venomous!

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