Matthew Rossi
What’s the best way to introduce new players to a game franchise?
Warcraft 3: Reforged did not work out the way Blizzard had wanted.
Latest D&D Unearthed Arcana brings a revised Genie Warlock, scribe Wizards and ghost Rogues
Playtest content in Dungeons and Dragons — or Unearthed Arcana — is a lot of fun because it provides new options for everybody to explore and gives you a peek into what's coming out for D&D before it gets a book release.
We’re going back to D&D with a special one-shot adventure this week
Update: The game is over, but you can catch the replay on Twitch and it will be up on Soundcloud for podcast listeners soon.
Is Diablo 3 better on PC or console?
I own Diablo 3 on the Playstation 4, the Xbox One, and PC.
The Queue: Guys, I still like World of Warcraft
Guys, switching to Lightforged has revitalized the game for me. I’m enjoying it a lot more now, and I really feel like it was the fight move for me. Sometimes that’s what you have to do, make a change to make things work. Of course, it’s still a Warrior, because let’s not get crazy here.
Anyway, this is the Queue. Let’s talk about stuff.
When is it good to change the direction of Warcraft’s story?
I keep thinking about how brilliant the swerve was in Warcraft 3 when it comes to the story of the Horde.
Diablo 2 Resurrected: Is Blizzard remastering our favorite Diablo game?
Whenever I hear rumors about a Diablo 2 remaster — much less the idea that Blizzard has been hiding it from us and plans to release it late this year — I think about the disastrous path that led to making the game, and how the people who made the game don't think a remaster will ever happen.
How to decide what content to use in your D&D game
We've talked a bit about how to run a D&D game, and we'll likely talk about it again, but since we've featured several Unearthed Arcana supplements and talked about books like the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, it feels to me like time to discuss a somewhat sensitive topic that every D&D group eventually confronts.
Here’s why we probably won’t ever get a Diablo 2 remaster
Sometimes you sit back and wonder how anything we love ever survives to be loved by us.
How the evolution of WoW affected the social side of the game — for better or worse
Recently, Mike Morhaime (y'all remember him, beloved former CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment) did a lengthy interview talking about quite a few things, one of those things being the tightrope between accessibility and social gaming in games like World of Warcraft, a game Mike knows a fair bit about.
