Matthew Rossi

There are a lot of options if you want to play a Diablo game right now. Diablo 2: Resurrected for people who crave the most iconic and most famous ARPG in existence, Diablo 3 if you want to play a very fast paced, very entertaining game about exploding demons, Diablo Immortal if you want to play Diablo 3 on a train or in a doctor’s office (and please try not to scream in triumph when you crush demon heads) — but for me, I keep coming back to Diablo 4.

Maybe it’s because I can customize the character to a level never before seen in a Diablo game. Maybe because I find the current state of gameplay to be fascinating and extremely fun — my Paladin was an absolute blast to play and now my latest Barbarian has hit upon a build that absorbs so much damage, guys. I’m legit astonished.

It’s the Queue. I love Diablo 4, so smash another hellspawn’s cranium baby.

ThunderCats was one of the big names in animated 1980's toy commercials disguised as children's entertainment, and soon it will have its own TTRPG.

Let’s not waste time.

It likes when I give pets. Sure, it’s a robot that floats and can shoot people with the gun mounted to its tail, but it still likes a good skritch.

To be fair, nobody said there would be any, I was just being careful.

It’s the Queue. No werewolves yet. Fingers crossed.

Honestly, between the trench warfare. the weird poison gas that powers everything (so it’s like a combination of the rise of tanks and aircraft and the use of mustard gas) and the aesthetic of things like the big air cooled machine guns, it feels like Obsidian was making Battlefield 1 in the Outer Worlds setting.

So it’s an extremely satirical, science fiction analogy for The Great War, and it’s surprisingly good at displaying how great it really wasn’t.

Because it took the anti-capitalist message of the first game and not only magnified it, but also threw in anti-colonialism, totalitarian regimes, and how the good intentions of someone do not serve to protect people from people who will use their creations with bad intentions. And I’m about half way through the game.

I honestly don’t know where this game will end up in the whole ‘game of the year’ list I’m composing in my head f0r no good reason, but it’s already ahead of Expedition 33.

Hi, guys. So my right retina had a busted blood vessel this week, which means that I have this cloud of blood inside my eye that is blocking what little my right eye can normally see behind what looks like a gigantic black octopus that slowly disintegrates into a strange constellation of blood dots.

Because of the way brains work, mine is stuck trying to use the input from my right and left eyes and as a result it’s like I’m having visual hallucinations of tentacles of blackness floating around superimposed over everything.

What I’m saying is, I didn’t really need to be this prepared for Midnight. 

I could watch the opening cinematic of The Outer Worlds 2 every single day.

So, how about those BlizzCon tickets going on sale?

Sometimes I get smug because I don’t have a ton of unplayed games on Steam, because I can be thoughtlessly hypocritical. So now I’m suffering for my thoughtlessness, as GOG had a big sale on games which meant that I could pick up Neverwinter Nights and a ton of DLC for it for under $10 Canadian.

Did I need to buy it? No. I’m not even playing it — The Outer Worlds 2 is out on Game Pass, and I have to justify that $30 price tag. But getting the entire Enhanced Edition for ten bucks? Even though I’ve got like 37 games I don’t play and in fact don’t even have installed, it felt impossible to pass it up.

Yeah, I know. I’m a sucker.