Anna Bell

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.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’ll answer with a tall glass of ice water and a little mustache of sweat on our upper lip. Ugh.

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.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll give you some answers just as soon as we get off the phone with the UGA entomology department extension.

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.

The Diablo 4 patch 2.0 PTR is taking place September 4-11, before the launch of 2.0 on live servers with the Vessel of Hatred release on October 8.

Whenever we get close to those seasonal lines I start getting antsy to get over the line, already. It was windy and overcast and just below 70 degrees this morning, so it’s definitely time to bundle up for fall, right? Please?

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Once again, Cory earworms me even though I’m not even familiar with the song he chose for me. I have my own personal musical idiolect, and it’s not as quirky or as serious as you might want it to be.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions, and whoa-oh, I’ve had it up to here.

Every new season of Hearthstone Battlegrounds brings us a ton of new hero skins, and the beach-themed season 8 is no exception -- but as much as we applaud the imagination, some of these skins are a little bit unbelievable.

Date Everything is one of those games where either you are baffled at why or how anyone would think of this concept, let alone follow it through, with dozens of unique characters voiced by a star-studded cast, multiple relationship types, and statuses, and endings, for every single one of those characters, or you already wishlisted the game on Steam after the first part of this sentence.