You could buy Berserk's entire Golden Age arc in hardback for the price of Diablo 4's crossover cosmetics

Last month, Blizzard announced the first of their planned collaboration events/themed cosmetic greed-jamborees for action RPG Diablo 4. Kicking things off is Berserk - Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy manga about a large man swinging a large sword at demons, full of panels that are very good at conveying thrilling duels with a bunch of slash marks and captions that say 'snick' a lot. I'm no superfan, but I do own a few books, and the original anime is one of my favourites - even if its brilliant theme song lied to me re: having zero problems in life as long as I'm wearing my glasses.

The cosmetics - four armour sets, a mount, and a pet - are now out, alongside their prices. In brief, buying the whole lot individually (there's no bundle discount or similar available) will set you back 16,500 of Diablo 4's gamerbux, named platinum. To cover that, your best option is the 18,500 platinum bundle. The price? $149.99 US, or £125.99. Cheers Push Square.

Now, far be it from me to tell you what your money's worth. But (just picking a random example out of the infinite other potential uses for that small fortune) if you popped over to Dark Horse Publishing's website right now, you could pick up the first four deluxe hardbacks of the actual manga for £107. You'd have a few quid leftover too. Perhaps you could buy a very large sippy cup and several gallons of your favourite reading beverage. Yum! Tastes better than a fake fucking horse, anyway. Or, shell out about eight extra quid for volume 5, and you've got the entire Golden Age arc - Guts's origin story, effectively.

Horrific, honestly. Apropos of nothing, Microsoft laid off 1,900 workers across Activision Blizzard and Xbox early last year. Activision Blizzard later laid off a further 400. Was this my fault? Please, Blizzard, stop. I'll buy more horses, I promise. I'd ask how the C-suite sleep at night but I already know the answer: without a single dream in their heads that doesn't involve Smaugish wealth hoarding.

If you're new to Berserk, here's Giada Zavarise's guide to loving it. In other 'everything is Ready Player One now and I want to go take a nap on some train tracks' news, Destiny 2 is doing a Star Wars crossover. Why, if I was a staffer who got laid off after working hard on establishing the series' expansive lore only for Bungie to squat a fat log on my creative legacy, I'd sure be plum miffed right about now! Sweating, wiping my brow, can't work out whether to press the button that reads 'preserving my sci-fi universe's atmosphere' or the one labelled 'tauntaun reference'.