Anna Bell

This week our writer Christian Thoma joined the mayhem that is the Blizzard Watch Podcast.

This week Epic Games Store is giving away three games, including a great sequel making its debut on the Store today.

Most people think of the 80s as a simple time full of big hair and scrunchies, but those of us who were into Dungeons and Dragons will remember the Satanic Panic, a period of time when parents were terrified that every piece of media was making their children evil.

I’ve been playing a lot of Drop Dutchy this week. It’s a very pick-up-put-down puzzler. It takes the lines and blocks of Tetris — with a far slower, more relaxed drop speed — but adds an additional element of having the bricks and lines give you resources which can be used strategically to improve various other parts of gameplay. Like if you stack several Wood pieces together, your Rangers will get more units, and after the round you can use the Wood you collected from making lines to improve your Ranger for later rounds. But, if your (computer) opponent also has a Ranger, watch out.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we supply the answers. Get it? Supply? Because wood and grain and stuff?

Is it any wonder that, since I am in theory so excited about WoW's Player Housing, I would fill the gap left by its absence by playing other games where I can decorate things?

The litany of Midnight updates and information continues with things ranging from UI updates to dual wielding baguettes.

Epic Games Store is giving away just one game this week, with intensely cozy vibes on the package, but with a much deeper complexity than they may seem to have at first glance.

Lore Watch this week explores three questions sent in by our listeners, all ending in answers we may see as we go forward into Midnight.

So, it’s not what you think — I have a major problem with storage, but again, it’s not what you think. I have a Google Pixel phone, so I use it to take photos, like you do. But in this last generation, despite it being a major selling point of the phone, they’ve started charging me for storing the photos I take on my phone, and screenshots, and all the photos of birds I take for the Merlin app. This is also tied to my email, so now until I migrate and/or delete a bunch of stuff, I can’t receive emails. Well, I can from the Old Navy marketing department, but not my kids’ schools, apparently. And now I’m also getting messages that my OneDrive, which I use exclusively for my writing and backups, is also jammed with stuff. So many people didn’t configure their OneDrive to backup the stuff they wanted backed up and complained when stuff got deleted, so now Microsoft made it so it automatically backs up your Desktop and you can’t turn that off. The desktop is where I have folders where I shove things like one-off screenshots and memes, so now my writing is all slammed in there next to gifs I thought I’d deleted almost as soon as I used them — but not from the cloud.

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and I’ll answer just as soon as I finish deleting this terabyte of memes I didn’t even want.

It's that time of year when everyone starts advertising stuff for fall, but it's still like, 85 degrees out where I live.