Anna Bell

Overwatch 2 has always embraced the Halloween season, and season 13's events and cosmetics follow that theme with a gorgeous Spellbinder Widowmaker Mythic skin on the Battle Pass, along with a ton of other spooky cosmetics and fun stuff.

The Hearthstone team has been incredibly reliable about releasing new expansions on the same dates with nearly clockwork precision since the game launched its first expansion over a decade ago.

There's just something about the diabolical plot twists in the Diablo series that makes it seem like everything is foreshadowed, even if you didn't really see it coming.

While I excited it’s finally October so I can let my spooky freak flag fly, it’s also the best week of the entire year: fat bear week kicks off with the bracket reveal today. Who you got?

Rutherford Bear Hayes was unavailable for comment. Because he’s a bear, and doesn’t speak English.

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Last week was busy, the week after next is busy, but this coming week?

We’re rounding the corner on October. All I really want is to curl up with a book and some soup or baked pasta or chili, but it’s a high of over 90 today, with 81% humidity. Whatever happened to the crisp, windy, fall ambiance? I won’t even get greedy and ask for a thematic Halloween thunderstorm. As a completely basic millennial woman, this feels personal.

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This Queue was going to be about something else, but this morning as I walked out my front door, I was quite forcibly reminded that there is, in fact, a season in between Humid Swamp and Spooky Pumpkins Season. It is, in fact, currently Joro Spider season — though I guess that could be filed under Spooky Season.. I’ve been knocking down the little webs all summer, but now the survivors are back with a vengeance. And I thought I hated the winter doldrums.

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The entire staff of indie game publisher (and site favorite) Annapurna Interactive has resigned.

I have a headcanon that intrepid explorer Brann Bronzebeard is also by necessity a polyglot. He is the first one to make contact with all these new races and factions we meet, so he quite painstakingly tries to preserve things like their place names and such so that the Champion can have a touchstone. Unfortunately, Brann isn’t so great with punctuation or sometimes even the precise spellings, so sometimes the maps and names will change over time. It’s kind of his YOLO nature that it’s important to just get it down first, and edit later if it’s important.

Anyway, just in case you’re having a time removing the apostrophe from Nerub-ar Palace (yes, it is now officially Nerub-ar Palace), you too can feel free to blame Brann.

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Blizzard has been great about laying out the timing of their upcoming releases lately, so it's not surprising that, ahead of World of Warcraft's launch of The War Within expansion, we already have a start date for season 1: September 10, though, as this is a global release, for certain time zones, this will be September 11.