Anna Bell

I always enjoyed the quote from Anne of Green Gables where Anne says she’s glad she lives in a world where there are Octobers. I will admit October definitely holds its own, but I’d guess that the mood Anne likes so much is more like November in my latitude.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll supply the answers while sitting in a comfy chair wrapped in a cozy blanket, with a warm mug of something.

If you thought we were going to talk about something other than changes coming to WoW in Midnight this week, you must be new, so hi, welcome to the podcast.

Epic Games Store is giving away two fan favorite horror video games with retro styling for free, to celebrate Halloween.

In the first of three questions we answered this week, a listener wanted to know some of the influences our hosts Joe and Matt see in WoW from literature, movies, and myth, and they talked about a slew of varied media, from 60s sci-fi (no, not that one, though yes, that one) through comics.

The light crackling of a fire, far off chimes which shift closer and further, slightly left and then right channel in your headphones, and the quiet whispering in Italian that feels like it's murmuring between your shoulderblades -- you know a horror game has the juice when you get full body frisson chills just from the sound design in the main menu.

It is almost Halloween and as such, I am in disguise. I am pretending to be a responsible adult and parent when really all I want to do is play video games. Alas.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we are responsible and answer in a timely fashion instead of playing the new Pacific Drive DLC.

(dang it).

Since Player Housing hit the PTR last week -- for a briefer time than any of us realized -- we had a lot of Housing-related stuff to talk about.

Fear the Spotlight is the latest horror game Epic Games Store is giving away for free, to celebrate spooky season.

Matt and Joe sit down this week to discuss Vampire: The Masquerade: its lore, some of the source material that inspired it, and how it rippled vampires forward in pop culture.

My two kids are each others’ polar opposites in everything, and it’s particularly obvious at Halloween. My son is ready for anything, an extrovert with a sunny disposition. He wants to be a train conductor for the seventh year in a row — he’s 10 — and go trick or treating. My daughter is an introvert with the temperament of a black cat, and wants to dress up as a particular specific character from a Roblox subgame, but not go trick or treating, because it’s cringe.

This is The Queue, our weekly column where you ask us questions and we give you the answers and then go out of office to see if we can find white foundation and black fingerless gloves, we guess?