Matthew Rossi
How should games test upcoming content?
Some games, like Diablo 2: Resurrected, Diablo 3, and World of Warcraft have PTRs where they can test their changes out, put new content up for players to interact with said content, and otherwise perform the Public Test that PTR -- Public Test Realm -- stands for.
The Queue: Time is the millstone under which we are ground fine
The past two weeks have been among the worst I have ever lived through.
I don’t have anything funny to say about that. I have not slept, I am not likely to sleep, I just keep trudging forward through this whole monotonously awful month and year, and everything keeps getting harder and harder and I see no real relief in the future. It’s been sincerely just the worst.
Lately playing video games has been all about keeping myself distracted. So hey, here’s the Queue, and then I’ll go back to distracting myself.
WoW Classic Season of Mastery changes up Nefarian in Blackwing Lair
You may have heard that Blackwing Lair is getting seriously buffed in WoW Classic's Season of Mastery, with significant changes to almost every single fight -- perhaps every fight, but we don't know what's up with Broodlord Lashlayer yet -- but while some of these fights are pretty radically altered, none is as complicated as the upcoming Nefarian changes.
Blackwing Lair is getting some serious changes in WoW Classic: Season of Mastery
Back in November, Blizzard launched the first Season of Mastery realms for WoW Classic.
How many games do you play at once, and what makes you stop playing a game?
I'm personally the kind of player who finds a game he likes and plays it into the ground, logging in repeatedly to play multiple characters.
What games do you play for consolation?
It has been a really terrifying, hellish month and it's only the third day of it as I write this, and so, as a coping mechanism I've been playing a lot of Fallout 4. Yes, that's right, I deal with stress by playing a game where humanity blew up the world.
Creating your own campaign setting in tabletop roleplaying
Okay, so you've decided you want to create your own world in your weekly tabletop game.
The Queue: Work in progress
Gonna just get right to it this week. It’s the Queue, you know how this works, and I haven’t slept more than an hour a day in a week so I doubt I could be clever even if I wanted to.
A look back at Horizon Zero Dawn and Ted Faro, the man who saved the world
Horizon Zero Dawn is full of villainous characters.
How do you feel about Blizzard delving into the survival genre? What’s your take on their new, unnamed IP?
So we finally know what Craig Amai has been working on.



