The Queue

DOOM and Diablo are a match made in… well, not heaven, somewhere hotter.

This makes the most sense for a Diablo crossover ever and I love seeing my Barbarian spinning around with the cool DOOM weapons. I’d love it even more if the armor and Cacodemon pet weren’t as expensive as they were, but at least I got the cool DOOM shield for when I make my Paladin in Lord of Hatred.

I’m not the biggest fan of crossing IP over in games like Diablo and Destiny. Games with an actual story shouldn’t randomly have other universes dropped into them. Although the DOOM gear fits extremely well into the aesthetic that Diablo 4 has got going on, so I’d likely not even notice if I showed up a year from now and saw a player in the gear. It makes more sense than StarCraft crossovers do!

While I go and collect more DOOM: The Dark Ages Currency to be able to afford the cool town portal, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Yes, I know WoW has a new expansion and everyone is excited about it. Xal’atath is great, yadda yadda. Did you know that the Cataclysm expansion has just been released as well?! (For Hearthstone.)

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we play other Blizzard games too! (But we also play a lot of WoW, and we are super excited about it as well, so you’ll get that too, of course.)

Let’s open with a Hearthstone question.

It’s a beautiful day in Silvermoon City… as long as you don’t turn around and look up at the sky, anyway. But there’s no time to sit around enjoying the scenery, because we have quests to finish, reputation to grind, prey to track, and delves to clear.

And we can’t forget the Queue, of course. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we do our best to answer your questions and we all get to have a good time in the comments section because of it. Let’s get to it.

If you’re not terminally online like I am — first of all, good for you, because it means you get to miss the latest Nvidia DLSS discourse. The short version is that while DLSS 1 through 4.5 were legitimate ways to improve your framerate in games via some honestly ingenius graphics card shenanigans, DLSS 5 appears to throw all that out the window in favor of taking creative control away from the graphics professionals who designed it and handing it to the same slop factories that are responsible for AI deepfake videos. The internet has reacted accordingly, while Nvidia’s CEO has decided to take the Principal Skinner “no, it’s the children who are wrong” approach to the feedback.

At least we got a bumper crop of memes out of it, right?

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily question and answer column where we have some thoughts about generative AI, but my mom taught me that if you don’t have anything nice to say, you say it quietly with your friends instead of in public. Let’s get to it.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and today we’re legally obligated to require you to press play on Shipping Up To Boston before we answer. I don’t make the rules.

Also if you’re not wearing green I get to pinch you. Maybe break out an emotional support murloc plushie?

It’s the most money I’ve ever spent at once!

Now I’m the proud owner of a 2014 Hyundai Santa Fe, and it has all sorts of decadent features like remote start and a heated steering wheel — which is just the most absurd thing that I assume I’ll never be able to live without now.

I hope to have many good years of driving with my new car. It’ll need a name, of course, but I figured I’d give it a week and see what comes to mind.

While I noodle on a name, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Would you believe it’s already Friday the 13th again!? It was Friday the 13th just a month ago! I admit that I hadn’t had enough time to recharge my spook batteries yet! So this is gonna be a considerably less spooky affair than last time.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where the witches are tired, man. They’re sleeping. Do witches sleep? I think witches sleep, but I’m honestly not sure.

It’s a new dawn, a new day, a new leveling grind in World of Warcraft, and I’m sure I’ll wrap this up eventually, probably, it’s fine. But while I struggle to keep up with my friends in leveling and gearing for another WoW expansion, let’s get to another Queue.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A article in which I try to answer your questions and we all get to hang out in the comments section.

This little guy might be the highlight of the weekly events for me. Hunting down wayward Magisters and Thornspeakers for a weirdo with a suffering fixation? Holding fancy parties in the woods? Defending a black hole in the Voidstorm? No thanks. I’ll take this little rat loa, his big booming voice, and his pachinko machine world event. Though maybe doing it sixteen times last week by using eight shards from early access and eight more from week one was a lot.

No, your eyes do not deceive you: it’s a brand new Queue author! But if there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s authoritatively answering questions like I know what I’m talking about, so let’s get into it; you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.

My favorite thing about gaming is the weird lil guys. They’re rarer in AAA, but they’re there if you look.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions, and we don’t have answers. Just fish.