Matthew Rossi

Matthew Rossi @MatthewWRossi — Matthew Rossi is a synapsid, perhaps descended from Cynognathus. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and grew up there before leaving to see the world and be mistaken for a sasquatch and/or minor singing celebrity in various locales. He currently lives and writes in Edmonton alongside his amazing and beautiful wife and their cats. He’s written three collections of speculative fiction, Things That Never Were, Bottled Demon and At Last, Atlantis. He loves playing warriors in World of Warcraft, barbarians in Diablo III, and he’s beginning to notice a pattern here.

The Queue

The Queue: A perfect, pretty corpse

by Matthew Rossi on February 1, 2024 at 12:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Guys, I hate Astarion.

Like, I hate everything about Astarion except for the nice person who provides his voice and seems quite nice in interviews. That’s Neil Newbon, and I have absolutely nothing against him.

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Discussion

From Assassin’s Creed to World of Warcraft: Which game has the best travel system?

by Matthew Rossi on January 31, 2024 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

For the purposes of this post, a travel system is any means in a video game where you can accelerate or even skip over distances between your objectives or hub locations in the game.

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Diablo 4

Do you play video games for the game or the character?

by Matthew Rossi on January 26, 2024 at 8:00am @MatthewWRossi

I realized recently that I don't play games as much as I use games to imagine various characters experiencing the storylines.

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The Queue

The Queue: Repeat to yourself, it’s just a show…

by Matthew Rossi on January 25, 2024 at 12:00pm @MatthewWRossi

But you don’t have to relax if you don’t want to.

It’s the Queue! Let’s do!

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Diablo

Everything you need to know about the Seneschal Companion in Diablo 4 Season 3

by Matthew Rossi on January 22, 2024 at 7:00pm @MatthewWRossi

I hope you like robot scorpions, because in Diablo 4 Season 3: Season of the Construct, you're going to be spending a lot of time with your new robotic Seneschal companion.

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WoW

Where to start the WoW patch 10.2.5 Seeds of Renewal quests

by Matthew Rossi on January 19, 2024 at 7:00pm @MatthewWRossi

If you're coming back to World of Warcraft for patch 10.2.5, the Seeds of Renewal, you may have a lot of catching up to do.

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Diablo

Skill Tree respec changes are among a ton of Diablo 4 Season 3 quality of life improvements

by Matthew Rossi on January 19, 2024 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi

If you've been playing or have played Diablo 4, you're probably aware of the difficulties that can manifest while trying to change your skills and Paragon tiles to use a different approach.

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The Queue

The Queue: Tyrannosaurus mcraensis, and no, they’re not going to rename it Tyrannosaurus cassidensis

by Matthew Rossi on January 18, 2024 at 12:00pm @MatthewWRossi

Honestly, if I didn’t talk about it, you’d all probably come to my house to complain. And yeah, that’s a T. rex image in the header, I honestly haven’t found an image of the new species I like yet.

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Diablo