Matthew Rossi
The Queue: I still miss you, girl
This is my bunny Grimalkin. I wrote a Queue about her two years ago. I’m very much missing her today. She was a very, very good bunny.
This is the Queue. It’s been a week, huh? Yeah. Anyway, here’s some questions and answers. I think tomorrow’s Queue — I’m doing that one too — will be about comic books.
The Blizzard Watch D&D crew fights a zombie T-Rex, defies a goddess, and steals back a magical chalice in our most recent escapade
So this past Satruday, the Blizzard Watch folks played Dungeons and Dragons again, something we all enjoy doing from time to time.
When is it time for a game franchise to move on from its original premise?
One thing I have been hearing for literally years at this point is the idea that Warcraft, as a franchise, is tied to the concept of conflict, or outright war, between Orcs and Humans, or the Horde and the Alliance, and that this cycle is instrumental to the success of the franchise and must be retained as part of the setting's core.
Just when you think it can’t get worse, sexual harassment allegations against Blizzard employees get worse
Content Warning -- frank discussion of sexual harassment and assault This is not an Onion article.
Now that Activision Blizzard’s stock price has dropped, Bobby Kotick has made a statement on sexual harassment lawsuit
It is probably never actually fair to say too little, too late when it comes to actions to redress a wrong, but the cynic in me exists.
Inappropriate in-game references to be removed from WoW in wake of lawsuit
The past week has been one unlike anything I've seen in my fourteen years covering Blizzard games.
Attend the magical university of Strixhaven with the new upcoming D&D sourcebook
The magical college D&D sourcebook, Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, finally has a release date: December 7, 2021.
How do you deal with disappointment?
Sometimes it's a mechanical change -- getting rid of an ability you've gotten used to, or even built your character around, or removing specific talent or ability choices.
What’s canon in Dungeons and Dragons? A lot less than you might think.
I've never been what you'd call a stickler for canon in any franchise.
What’s your favorite way to help people in an MMO?
I sign up to tank dungeons in the middle of the night I do this on various characters, all of my warriors, my death knight, and my paladins.
