The story of Titan is one that's probably pretty familiar to almost everyone in game development -- years of work on a game that ultimately didn't ship.

I've long believed that you can recognize when a story is well told -- when it has elements of real quality, when it is crafted in an effective and even powerful way -- and not necessarily like that story.

Bawk bawk, buh-gok!

It’s — The Queue.

This week, Matt Rossi and Joe Perez discuss the surprise departure of longtime Blizzard game dev Jeff "Tigole Bitties" Kaplan, the emotional cost of spoilers, and the possible special role of the Forsaken in the fight against The Jailer.

Do you like adorable sloths?

Heartstone has done some fun things with Warcraft lore over the years -- evil supervillains banding together, a big Draconic dust-up, Mean Streets of Gadgetzan -- and none of it is in World of Warcraft, which I think is a crying shame.

Diablo 3 is one of the best games ever made.

It's rare we get much in the way of information on projects in the works at Wizards of the Coast.

It has been one crazy week after another here, but A Thing™ I’ve been helping work on for a while finally made its way out into the world last night, and it’s been cool watching people react to and devour said thing. (Sadly, I still have to keep details brief for now.)

Anyhow, I’ve also been playing FFXIV a bit again, and, hoo boy, is that game a trip. I appreciate Square’s willingness to let it just be weird sometimes.

But enough about that. Let’s Queue.

So right now I'm playing World of Warcraft on a reduced (but still daily) basis, mostly just on my one main, a Night Elf Warrior.