It’s been 126 days since Activision Blizzard employees published their demands for change, and management hasn’t acknowledged them
In July, a lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing accused Activision Blizzard of having a "frat boy" culture where its female employees were regularly harassed, mistreated, and abused.
Meet Lucky the dog, the most important character in the new Disney+ Hawkeye series
Whenever you see a fuzzy character that grips at your heartstrings in a new show or movie and just know you would kill for them, it's truly something special. I remember watching the first three episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender when I realized that the hero of the story was Appa.
The Queue: I need healing!
I spent a lot of this weekend resting my ankle, I don’t recommend walking on stairs just after a night of freezing rain.
Ouch.
Where’s a kindly grandmother to shoot me full of healing nano-darts when you need one!
While I try and track down another ice pack, it’s time for — The Queue.
More tabletop roleplaying games that aren’t D&D that you should play
With the holidays fast approaching, I figured now is a good time to list a bunch of RPGs you may not have played and give you something else to do with your rarely-visited relatives.
What do you most enjoy about the games you play?
I mean, straight up, transmog has made me love so, so many games — from World of Warcraft to Assassin's Creed Odyssey I enjoy playing dress up with my little POV character almost as much as getting a compelling story or satisfying gameplay loops.
The Queue: By the time you read this I will have endured the eye lasers
So how’s your Friday going? Mine is likely to be very uncomfortable. I will be recuperating from having various blood vessels on my retinas burned out with lasers. It’s not actually painful, but it is really disturbing to feel your eyeballs get hot.
This is the Queue. Let’s talk about something else.
Anything else.
Blizzard Watch Podcast 347: WoW patch 9.2 PTR class sets and story spoilers
It's WoW's 17th birthday, and we talk about some of our favorite memories from the game — mostly involving wild raid night antics from the early days of Warcraft.
What do you do for gaming over Thanksgiving?
Look, families are great, sometimes.
Why is Diablo such an enduring game series?
There are a lot of RPG's and action RPG's out there, and yet, the Diablo franchise has managed to exist for over 20 years now, and the relatively simple formula for the series has not just survived, it's thrived, to the point where it's even seen a phalanx of imitators and spiritual successors like the Torchlight games, the Path of Exile series, Grim Dawn, Wolcen, Darksiders Genesis, Warhammer Chaosbane, and a whole lot more.
Amazon may be making a Mass Effect TV series — but which story could it tell?
Amazon Prime is loving the views for its Wheel of Time series, and the future for this streaming service seems to be focusing more on genre shows like the upcoming Lord of the Rings series and — to me at least more interestingly — possibly a Mass Effect series as well.



