Mitch

The beginning of a new year is always an interesting time.

In some parts of the world, it will already be 2019 by the time this post goes live.

I've made no secret of my obsession with Fortnite -- but a large part of that obsession is because I'm fascinated with how Epic Games is willing to make major changes in-game.

Back in the distant, distant past of November 2018, Diablo 3 arrived on the Switch and with it came the announcement of a delightfully devious looking Loot Goblin amiibo to be released in December.

In World of Warcraft, plenty of bosses know how to celebrate the holidays -- but some do it better than others.

I’m not a holiday person — not the winter holidays, anyway. But I have a few things I consider “traditions,” and making sure I listen to Tim Minchin’s ‘White Wine in the Sun‘ is one of them. In fact, I was almost going to name this Queue after it, but then I remembered… I already did that last year. Fittingly enough, he even posted a photo of (what I presume to be) the location he sings about in the song.

Anyhow, Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate, and happy holidays to those of you who don’t. Let’s see if I can’t make this an extra special Queue, eh?

When it comes to writing and MMOs, it can be hard to differentiate good writing and bad writing from writing we actually just do or don't like.

Y’know, my gut instinct when I first saw this month’s Splatfest was to go with Team Villain. Makes sense, right? I’m evil, etc. etc. — but then I looked at the actual list of characters on each side. Link, not surprisingly, was on the heroes side, however.

Link is my main.

So, I went with Team Heroes, and it… well, we didn’t win. And now I’m thinking that I should’ve just counted Dark Link — who is not an Echo Fighter like Dark Pit is — as Team Villain and called it a day with that decision.

Oh well. I suppose we should Queue.

Just a few days after patch 8.1 hit World of Warcraft, the intrepid secret-hunters had already solved the big(gest) riddle the patch had to offer -- that of the Hivemind mount.

Anyone who's a regular reader of my Queues will know I have a monthly tradition of reporting on the Splatfests that occur in Splatoon 2.