May 8, 2026
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Diablo 4 devs say having to keep coming up with menacing names for activities is ‘probably one of the most difficult design challenges’ when you’ve already used up stuff like Helltide and Nightmare Dungeon

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Naming things is hard. Ask anyone in a creative line of work, and they’ll tell you as much. And according to the developers of Diablo 4, it’s particularly challenging to come up with new, morbid names for devilish challenges when the series you’re working on has been burning through death metal-adjacent material for almost 30…

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Delightful undersea soulslike Another Crab’s Treasure just got a huge ‘Year Of The Crab’ update featuring a fully remixed New Game Plus

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What’s better than a heaping serving of premium crab? A second round, entirely free. Aggro Crab’s seafloor Sekiro-like Another Crab’s Treasure was a pleasure to play when it rolled out last year, with our deep-diver Abbie Stone giving it a very positive 80% review last April. It might be worth mentally adding a few points…

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The Last of Us TV show did the thing

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Note: Big ole spoilers for the thing you probably already know about in The Last of Us Season 2. Well, the thing happened in The Last of Us Season 2, the thing we’ve all been waiting for. It’s the thing even me, a guy who only played three hours of the first TLOU game and…

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The pitch of Diablo 4’s next season is ‘becoming the boss,’ which is a polite way to describe killing a giant skeleton and stealing its death laser powers for yourself

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Today Blizzard dropped a fresh pile of details about Belial’s Return, Diablo 4’s next season. As it says on the tin, the big bad in Sanctuary’s immediate future is Belial, the Lord of Lies, one of Diablo’s more powerful demons who’s been absent since players kicked him out of Kehjistan back in Diablo 3. And…

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Feature: Catch-Up Crew: Pikmin – “A Moment Of Sheer Panic That I Can’t Quite Describe”

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I am compelled—I must approach it. Captain’s log, stardate 202504.21. Following our last Catch-up Crew mission to Shadow Moses Island, the crew has enjoyed extended shore leave having (re)acquainted ourselves with Metal Gear Solid. Our new assignment takes us to the M-class world of PNF-404. However, ship instruments indicate that we haven’t left Sector 001….

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