The Overwatch esports 2025 season kicks off with OWCS beginning Friday (and in-game swag for watching)
by Jeffrey Patton on January 28, 2025 at 2:00pm
The Queue: The festival!
by Anna Bell on January 28, 2025 at 12:00pm @liopleurodonic
The Year of the Snake is upon us, and while I do feel bad for people who aren’t all about the reptiles, I tend to enjoy them. It’s funny though, because I’d joined a few snake ID groups on Reddit just for my own backyard. I find most North American venomous snakes are extremely threatening looking — all spikes and glares and triangular heads and rattles. But the thing is, Reddit is international, so I’ve been learning about snakes from all around the world, and while the Russel’s viper and puff adders and cobras are much the same in terms of being clearly somebody to not screw with, I would absolutely be that idiot trying to handle the cute little Australian venomous guys. They call one of them — a cute little smooth stripey guy — the bandy bandy! But he’s crazy venomous!
This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions, and you can also press 1 for more snake fun facts.
It’s a short Tuesday maintenance for most World of Warcraft players, but Classic players should expect servers to be offline all day — all servers now back online!
by Elizabeth Harper on January 28, 2025 at 9:00am @faience
It’s hard to find a good guild, but VISAGE helps connect women and gender minorities with friendly guilds
by Sara Hanson on January 28, 2025 at 8:00am
How to reset your profession knowledge points in The War Within in patch 11.1
by Eric O'Dea on January 27, 2025 at 5:30pm @Draygonia_42
Hippo birthday to you! Cincinnati Zoo superstar hippo Fiona turns 8
by Phil Ulrich on January 27, 2025 at 2:00pm @awaymessageclub
The Queue: Things are getting weird around here
by Cory Taylor on January 27, 2025 at 12:00pm @CoryjTaylor
I’ve been visiting a whole bunch of breweries this weekend trying the weirdest beers they’ve had. Not just regular weird, but wyrd weird. The local craft beer people throw a little wyrd festival thing in January to stretch their creative muscles, and oh boy have they been weird(wyrd)!
Thanks to my favorite person ever noticing this was going on, we’ve made a whole weekend of it and we’re only halfway through the list! She’s really the bee’s knees, and it’s not just all the beer making me say that.
So far the standouts have been a ham and pineapple beer and an out-of-this-world hypnotic purple one called Unicorn Blood that tastes like taro and bubble tea. Have all of the beers worked? Mostly! Would I get another pint of the salted mushroom porter? Unlikely! There’s still way more to taste though, and I can’t wait to find out what else is out there!
While I sober up a bit, it’s time for — The Queue!
Tavern Watch Plays Starfinder 2: The great planetary escape!
by Elizabeth Harper on January 27, 2025 at 11:30am @faience
What Diablo 4 could learn from Path of Exile 2 — and what Blizzard is doing right
by Chris Chesno on January 27, 2025 at 8:00am @dremire_ttgf