I was going to make a joke asking for good game suggestions for weekend if I have time to play something, but the Silksong release deserves better. Congrats to Team Cherry on Hollow Knight: Silksong on such a phenomenal launch they took down both Steam and Nintendo’s shops, then hit probably record-making (or breaking) concurrent play numbers. I’m still working on my interest in Metroidvanias, but your art may convince me to give it a go anyways.

Anyways, it’s Friday, this is the Queue, and while it’s your regularly scheduled time, I am not your regularly scheduled channel. Let’s freaking go.

The litany of Midnight updates and information continues with things ranging from UI updates to dual wielding baguettes.

Each of the new zones in World of Warcraft Midnight will have zone-specific events and open world activities that include a variety of objectives designed to interest all types of players.

After a few weeks of post-Gamescom waiting, Blizzard suddenly released a positive deluge of information on all of its World of Warcraft: Midnight announcements.

I’m not saying that telling someone to hug a hippo is attempted murder. But I am saying that it’s a very, very bad idea to actually follow that advice. I know you’ve all heard about how cute house hippos are, but they don’t actually exist and real hippos are considered one of the most dangerous animals in the world.

I’m honestly not surprised, considering that they can weigh up to four and a half to five tons and have tusks the size of railroad spikes. To put this in context, a hippo could body an Allosaurus, because it weighs almost twice as much as the biggest estimated sized Allosaurus specimen we have to date.

Please do not hug a hippo. It will kill you if you are lucky.

Epic Games Store is giving away just one game this week, with intensely cozy vibes on the package, but with a much deeper complexity than they may seem to have at first glance.

AI is everywhere, it has been genuinely astonishing the speed it has inserted itself into things it probably has no place being.

Information is still filtering out from Gamescom, but one thing we have seen from Blizzard’s Developer Deep Dive Panel was an update on their push to eliminate the need for third party combat addons.

It's hard find good help these days, but we're here to help with the Hearthstone Henchmania Tavern Brawl, in which the League of E.V.I.L.

Somebody here gets to go to the zoo today and it is not me. I am extremely jealous, but despite that I am still here to write the Queue. Responsibility really is just the worst.

But let’s get to the questions.