Diablo 4 developers told us to watch The Game Awards and we were not disappointed -- their next expansion, Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, continues our (rather expected) fight against Mephisto.

Diablo 4 players finally get the sword-and-board holy warrior they've been hoping for with the newly announced Paladin class.

With the release of player housing, we have been given hundreds of items to design our perfect homes, but certain races seemed to have received the short end of the stick, including Gnomes, who have perhaps the shortest stick of all.

It likes when I give pets. Sure, it’s a robot that floats and can shoot people with the gun mounted to its tail, but it still likes a good skritch.

Diablo 4 patch 2.5.0 and Season 11 launch on December 11 — at the unusual time of 8:30pm pacific (11:30pm eastern) — and feature some significant changes to defense systems, including healing and Fortify, as well as version 2.0 of Masterworking and Tempering.

The Pit of Artificers was added to Diablo 4 in Season 4 as a timed endgame dungeon activity similar to Diablo 3's Greater Rifts.

I'm usually playing at least two games actively: one of those world-spanning, lore heavy immersive games, and then a relatively fluffy little puzzle game I'll pick up when I have 10 minutes to kill.

Greatfather Kobold takes over the Tavern with the alliterative Wacky Waxy Winter's Veil Tavern Brawl.

I promise you that this isn’t becoming a site that’s only about player housing. But that doesn’t mean that we aren’t super obsessed with player housing and writing about other things might just slip our minds.

…was I saying something?

…oh, right, the Queue. Let’s get to it.

In this birthday episode of Lore Watch, Joe gave Matt a gift, and let Matt talk about whatever called to him -- and that was the lore of The Outer Worlds.