The Queue

Friday keeps sneaking up on me, leaving me with a worrying pile of things still on my to do list. But it’s Friday, and that means it’s time for a family meeting: let’s talk about what’s been going on this week and, most especially, patch 10.2.6.

It’s okay to not be good at something you enjoy doing.

Dragonflight patch 10.2.6 did not arrive this week despite the eight-hour downtime yesterday, which means next week is a prime candidate for its arrival. Which wouldn’t normally be a problem, except this is the list of everything else happening in the video game world next week:

• Hearthstone is releasing their next expansion Whizbang’s Workshop
• Hi-Fi Rush and Rise of the Ronin are arriving on the PS5
• Princess Peach: Showtime! is arriving for the Nintendo Switch
• Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition is releasing for PC
• Alone in the Dark and Dragon’s Dogma 2 are coming out on all next-gen platforms (sorry, Switch owners) and PC
• And for sports fans it’s time for MLB The Show ’24 on all consoles

That’s an insane number of major titles to come out in the same week, especially in March. Perhaps everyone is afraid to release against South Park: Snow Day the following week?

While I ponder whether these game releases are the true March Madness, let’s answer some questions!

I’m not generally much of a cat person — everyone in my house is allergic — but I can literally never pass up a half-decent pun, so here we are. Besides, digital pets count, right?

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and if the last few answers don’t make the most sense, just know we’re on kind of a tight timeline because of the benadryl.

Daylight savings time has done me in. All that’s left is a shambling husk of a person crawling out of a shallow grave.

Maybe some day I’ll get to go back to that grave. That’d be nice, I could use a good nap.

While I try and find the cool side of my pillow, it’s time for — The Queue!

I’ve spent all week scheduling Breakfast Topics at the wrong time, and now it’s Friday, the week is nearly over without a single success to its name. Well, I suppose there’s always next week. Let’s Queue.

Sometimes I just stop and marvel at the way the Diablo 4 team worked our characters into the in-game cinematics. There’s my character up there, confronting Lilith. It’s not just Lilith monologuing, it’s not Tyrael blowing up the Worldstone or Baal breaking a man’s brain, it’s me. The character I’ve been playing all game is the one we get to see step up, and she’s a fully customized, distinct looking figure.

And they even managed to capture how utterly done with Lilith’s whole deal she is.

Greetings, Queue! It’s a nice day for a drink, or for slaying demons. And I’m all out of demons!

While I do love the coming of spring in terms of the warmth and the plants starting to grow and the birds singing, I’m less jazzed about allergy season coming.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions, and we’ll give you both tissues and answers. Achoo!

I AM DEATH INCARNATE, THE UNMAKER OF WORLDS, AND I WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS FOR THE QUEUE!