The Queue: OMG BlizzCon edition
After the gotta write fast adrenaline wore off, the reality started to sink in. We have a mere six months to prepare for BlizzCon coverage! I’m honestly not sure that’s enough time — ready or not, here it comes. Get those F5 fingers ready for May 4th.
You don’t need F5 skills to read the Queue though. Let’s get to it!
Off Topic: The Fate of Atlantis DLC for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey starts strong with Fields of Elysium
It's no secret around here that I love Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
See you in November! The BlizzCon 2019 dates have been announced
Update: The BlizzCon team published their official announcement a few minutes after we originally published this.
What would your dream Hero in Heroes of the Storm be and why is it Anduin Lothar?
Okay, to be fair, it probably isn't Anduin Lothar.
Tons of cool mounts are coming in 8.2, no matter which activities you like doing
We're getting so many awesome mounts in the new zones in patch 8.2.
You can create your own Overwatch modes and heroes with the Workshop
If you've played Overwatch and have had any sort of ideas about how a game mode or a hero could be tweaked, you can probably do all of those things with the new Workshop feature.
The Queue: You should see me in a crown
And now you have! Aren’t you happy about that?
Off Topic: Last Call by Tim Powers is the source of modern weird culture
That headline is pushing it, but not by much. Last Call is one of the best modern fantasy novels ever written -- it does things with magic, occultism, general weirdness, conspiracy theory and the pure strangeness of actual historical events that shows like Stranger Things and The X-Files are still playing catch up with.
What kind of game would you make with the Diablo IP?
It's no secret that Diablo Immortal didn't get an enthused reception from the crowd at BlizzCon last year -- while you'd think that more Diablo is always a good thing, players have a lot of negative opinions about mobile games.
WoW Classic enters internal employee alpha test, rumors of open beta are premature
People who are interested in WoW Classic tend to be really interested in it, and as a result, will grab on to any information that seems to indicate that we'll be getting an alpha or beta test for it soon.



