While the attention this week has been firmly fixed on the Game Awards, there are plenty of other showcases happening where players see upcoming games that can't afford to advertise during the awards show.

Congratulations to Astro Bot for winning the 2024 Game of the Year at the Game Awards.

This week is all about gaming awards shows and showcases, and here at Blizzard Watch we have been soaking up game trailers all week.

Hello and happy Friday, Watchers.

Does Geoff Keighley not realize gamers are getting older? That we have bedtimes? Limited attention spans? Four hours of game trailers is just too much. By the end I had forgotten the beginning, the middle was a blur, and I was starting to doze off so I’m not completely sure how it ended. Hopefully someone won!

But I’m being too harsh. The whole show was worth watching just to see Statler and Waldorf call Geoff a sellout. The Outer Worlds 2 trailer was also extremely good, and possibly some other things happened.

But for now, let’s get to the Queue.

Join us as we discuss the unimpressive upgradable ring, Circe’s Circlet, arriving with Siren Isle, Diablo Immortal finally getting….Diablo, and how yet another mobile-first Blizzard game has found its way onto PCs.

Among the many rabbit holes the Secret Finding Discord has gone through while trying to solve the current step of the Felcycle secret in World of Warcraft led people to explore whether we needed to complete a step while we had a rat on our shoulder.

The 2024 edition of the Game Awards are over and while some may be interested in debating whether Astro Bot deserved to be Game of the Year I'm already focused on all the future titles.

Not just with Varric, either. Rook flirts with literally everyone/everything in this game.

Hi. I’m Matt. This is the Queue.

December has rapidly turned into the second most-exciting month for video game news (after June and all the shows that arrive with Summer Game Fest).