• CORE 520: A Salty Remake
    May 1 2026

    This week on CORE, the hosts are feeling the heat with only 42 days left until Nerdtacular 2026! Scott, Beau, and Jon dive deep into a massive week of gaming news, starting with the official launch of the Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred expansion. We break down the new classes and whether the Horadric Cube lives up to the name. How stoked are we for the Black Flag remake? Very. We also look ahead at a packed May release schedule, featuring heavy hitters like 007 First Light, Forza Horizon 6, and the Switch 2's Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. Plus, we discuss the technical wizardry of Vampire Crawlers, the mysterious ""30-day check-in"" from Sony, and the strange allure of Shapez 2’s new Manufacture Mode. From Resident Evil movie teasers to the ergonomics of the new Steam Controller, it’s a full show.


    Games we played!


    Scott

    • Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred

    • Vampire Crawlers

    • Resident Evil 9

    • Shapez 2

    • Crimson Desert

    • Avowed

    • Windrose


    Jon

    • Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred

    • Vampire Crawlers

    • Dead as Disco (demo)

    • Mouse: P.I. for Hire

    • Halo: Combat Evolved


    Beau

    • Vampire Crawlers

    • The 3

    • Boomerang Fu

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    3 hrs and 40 mins
  • PLAY RETRO 216: Rastan
    Apr 30 2026
    Taito’s Rastan (1987) brought sword-and-sorcery fantasy to the arcade with giant monsters, brutal platforming, and a barbarian hero straight out of a Conan paperback. We follow that path through Nastar (1989), released in Japan as Rastan Saga II, and briefly look at Warrior Blade, the rare triple-screen arcade finale that closed out the series in oversized style.

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • TMS 3001: Medal of Amber
    Apr 29 2026
    I'll Take a Triple Millennium with Extra Foam. The Enshittification of All Things. Thickened Liquid Humps. Rack Hell Welch. Shmuper Shmirus. Rhymes with Shmyanide. Maybe She's Born With It, Maybe It's Birthmarks. Reaper Acres Retirement Home. Jurassic Bubble. Avoid the Newman. The Right Side Of The Hump w Brian Dunaway. Billy Pumpkins. 3 Thousand and one and tell me that you love me. The Quantum Supremacy w Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • TMS 3000: Trashnesia
    Apr 28 2026
    Crystal Herpes. TMMMS. Absent Wife Disorder. Encyclopedia Briantannica. Mansplaining Deodorant. 3000 episodes. They Said We Shouldn't Do It. BUT WE DID! This Is The Pre-Orgy. All Friends, No Benefits. I dont like Herpeeeeeees. Alicia saves the day. And I'm Also Into Crystals! Chaos With Purpose. Fortnite Grandma. The Are Three Thousands. Dan and the Holy Grails and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • The MONDAY Show: Consistent Bic
    Apr 27 2026
    Mom gone again and that kinda sucks. Carter aces a Iron Giant quiz. Amazon borked that photo. A load of your questions and lots inbetween.

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    53 mins
  • TMS 2999: Bison Biscuits
    Apr 27 2026
    This is About the Mugs of Pee. Oh My God, They Killed Daryl! YOU BASTARDS! Old Man Johnson has a Sex Dungeon for delivery people. Justice Butthole. Party Like It's 2999. Saliva beast horn monster. Read me say that. Horses In The Morning. Slide Rules! Rogan-sized ribbed for your pleasure. Brian's Animal Style Date. I Don't Like Drive-thru Weeeeeeeeeed. 10 Cloverville Lane. 3 Worthless Bits of Trivia with Stephen. The one where the Doctor finds weird shit and solves it in 40 minutes and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Film Sack 744: 10 Cloverfield Lane
    Apr 26 2026
    On This Week’s Film Sack, 10 Cloverfield Lane. A young woman is held in an underground bunker by a man who insists that a hostile event has left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable. Goodman is Badman!

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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • CORE 519: D Day
    Apr 24 2026

    The Big Stuff:

    - Nerdtacular All-Stars trivia team, all three hosts ended up on the same team with Scott's sister Wendy

    - Team name brainstorming (Cerebral Cortex, Obsessive Core Pulsive, Psycore Logical Corefare, etc.)

    - Trivia seeding test results and strategy

    - 500 episode milestone / mugs still available

    - Patreon/Core.show support plug


    Games Discussed:

    - Diablo IV's new expansion (record-breaking second expansion, early buzz positive)

    - Vampire Crawlers

    - Windrose

    - Blacksmith Master

    - Mouse: P.I. for Hire

    - Lucky Tower Ultimate

    - Pragmata

    - The Witcher 3

    - Syntopia

    - Slave Spire 2


    Listener Stuff

    - Letter from EdOrange correcting Scott on Cockneys being from London, not Manchester, plus Dragon Warrior Monsters on Game Boy Color


    Some chaos for you at the end:

    - Bo sharing weird Amazon product recommendations that escalated into adult toy territory

    - Ottawa sex shop / the Glebe neighborhood rabbit hole

    - Tax write-off bit inspired by a Conan podcast segment about buying nerd stuff and expensing it

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    3 hrs and 15 mins