Left to my own devices I will absolutely just keep expanding the backstories I create for each and every tabletop RPG character I make, and truthfully, even characters I make for video games like Baldur’s Gate 3, Wrath of the Righteous or Rogue Trader.  I mean, paragraph after paragraph explaining every single detail of my character’s life and history.

I don’t know why I do this.

This week the Epic Games Store is giving us a bit of whiplash in the thematic juxtaposition between the two games they're offering for free this week: the gleeful gorefest of Dead Island 2, and the devolving dreamscape (perhaps nightmare) that is Happy Game.

This past weekend I was lucky enough to be able to attend PAX East for the first time and experience the gigantic celebration of gaming culture first-hand.

It feels like we were just here, doesn’t it? In the Queue.

Well, here we are again (or here we are still), so I suppose it’s time to get to some questions.

On this week's Lore Watch Podcast, Joe and Matt are joined again by our writer Eric O'Dea, and they continue to explore how the telling and re-telling of stories about creatures in folklore has evolved into the creatures we now know in some of our favorite media.

With the advent of WoW patch 11.1.5's Turbo Boost, players will finally be able to get their hands on the most coveted and controversial parts of Undermine(d): Puzzling Cartel Chips.

Hearthstone Into the Emerald Dream expansion now has its own miniset: Embers of the World Tree is now live.

Ah, Valorstones.

The Georgia Renaissance Festival has a huge booth right inside the front gate selling Dole Whip. We took the kids as a pre-school-end fun outing, and that’s all my son can talk about now. Not the acrobats, not the live music, not the glass blowing, not even the beignets and cotton candy. He wants to go back and pay admission solely for more Dole Whip. And as summer starts, oh man do I get it.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll answer next to a big bowl of ice cream and pineapple.

Tuesday morning means it's time for WoW maintenance for players of all eras, but it's The War Within that continues the long maintenance trend, while Cataclysm and Classic servers have the standard one hour downtime.