Matthew Rossi
What World of Warcraft villain had the best overall arc?
Yesterday, I asked about WoW Villains who didn't get as much development as we might have wanted.
Marvel Snap is the first game announced by Second Dinner, a studio founded by ex-Blizzard devs
Second Dinner is a company started back in 2018 by various ex-Hearthstone alums including Ben Brode, who left Blizzard to found the company and previously was essentially the public face as well as Game Director of the popular Warcraft themed computer card game.
Taste the rainbow of pain in Diablo 3 — Wyatt Cheng talks about the creation of Whimsyshire
Wyatt Cheng, the Game Director on Diablo Immortal and former patch lead on Diablo 3 who worked on the game at the time of its release, took to Twitter to answer fan questions in an impromptu Q&A to celebrate the game's 10th anniversary, and was asked about why the team on D3 at the time chose to create the best zone in the game, Whimsyshire.
Which World of Warcraft villain had the most unrealized potential?
The more I think about the Jailer, the main antagonist in Shadowlands, the more I feel like he didn't end up working out as I'd hoped.
Cerebral Puzzle Showcase highlights Steam’s best game genre: puzzles
There are a lot of really engaging and fun puzzlers, ranging from quirky indie hits to lavish fusions of genres and styles, available within the puzzle game subgenre, and coming up from May 19 to May 23, we'll all have a chance to check out Steam's best offerings with the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase.
The Queue: Eoanthropus Dawsoni and the mystery of the elephant bone cricket bat
You may or may not have heard of Eoanthropus Dawsoni. From 1912 to 1951, this infamous hoax was believed by many to be the ‘missing link’ between apes and men. You may know it better as Piltdown Man. But what’s really fascinating to me about the whole story of Charles Dawson and his Dawn Man is how it was eventually proved to be fake.
Now, people suspected there was something fishy about Eoanthropus Dawsoni from the get go. While a lot of people defended the find, there were those who pointed out the anatomical flaws and argued that it was clearly made from separate fossils. So why did it take 40 years to figure out the thing wasn’t legit?
A new social contract is coming to WoW in patch 9.2.5 — but will it stop toxic behavior?
Is the solution to toxic behavior in World of Warcraft as simple as asking politely for people to not be toxic?
How does music affect a game for you?
To this day, when I hear the original theme that plays behind the World of Warcraft login screen -- you know the one -- I am immediately drawn back to December of 2004, when I would log on to my Human Warrior Marketh (later deleted and rerolled as my Human Warrior Scythos because I didn't like the name Marketh anymore) and run around the Wetlands trying to get to the boat to Kalimdor.
What game tropes do you really respond to?
Fiction has tropes, and a lot of games are an avenue of storytelling -- World of Warcraft has told a lot of stories over the years.
What draws you to play a video game?
I have pretty weird tastes in video games, I suspect.
