Lore Watch Podcast 194: The History of Molten Core
What moment from Warcraft lives rent-free in your head forever?
Two more classic D&D settings will come to 5th Edition — here are the ones we wish they’d add
Tormenters of Torghast Maw invasions are coming in patch 9.1
The Queue: A fresh summer hangout sesh
Ah, to be a former Alterra employee building my own spacious underwater seabase piece by painstaking piece.
This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we can totally answer while we go find more titanium and watch the Nintendo panel. Multitasking is a thing, it’s fine.
Sinrunner Blanchy learns how to fly in patch 9.1
How do you feel a game’s hype affects your actual experience playing that game?
How the Barrens in Hearthstone diverges from the Barrens in WoW
The Queue: Take Control
I just beat Control. Not only did I beat Control, but I got the platinum trophy for doing all of the achievements in it, then I beat both of the expansion packs and did all of their achievements too.
Have you ever felt like a game was written directly for you? Because that’s what Control felt like to me. It checked so many of my boxes that I was hooked from the first minute.
You play as a woman named Jesse Faden, led by the entity in her head to the mysterious Federal Bureau of Control — the government agency in charge of keeping the Weird™ stuff under wraps. From there you explore a sprawling interdimensional office building full of secrets and artifacts with wild powers. What powers you ask? I dunno how ’bout the power of flight? That do anything for ya? That’s levitation, holmes.
I’ve heard it described best as what would happen if the Ghostbusters were in charge of the FBI. Which pretty much nails it. You can even get it for free this week on the Epic Game Store if you wanted to check it out. I wholeheartedly recommend it!
While I take a break from ripping fire extinguishers off of the wall with my mind and launching them at transdimensional entities possessing office workers, it’s time for — The Queue.



