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New York Post
20-05-2025
- New York Post
Another 15yo tied to baby-faced ‘Little Devil' gang busted in NYC robbery of autistic teen: sources
Another 15-year-old migrant tied to Tren de Aragua's baby-faced 'Little Devils'' gang was busted Tuesday in the cowardly robbery of an autistic teen at the Staten Island Mall, law-enforcement sources said. The punk gang associate also is being eyed in a 'Little Devils' robbery attack on another teen in Lower Manhattan last week — when the thugs literally ripped a sneaker off the victim, sources said. The boy was picked up by the NYPD in the morning and is the third person to be nabbed in the earlier May 5 Mother's Day robbery that left a 16-year-old autistic victim battered and traumatized. Already charged in the Mother's Day mall crime was another 15-year-old whose exploits include more than a dozen arrests, with the notorious young criminal deemed the poster boy for the 'Little Devils,' a k a 'Los Diablos de 42,' or 'The Devils of 42nd Street.' 4 A 15-year-old boy associated with the Tren de Aragua offshoot 'Little devils' gang and busted Tuesday throws up a gang sign on social media, law-enforcement sources say. Obtained by the NYPost 4 Two migrants, 15 and 17, were the first to be charged with robbing an autistic teen at the Staten Island Mall on May 5. Gregory P. Mango The underaged crew is essentially a farm system for the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren, with members having snuck into the US with the wave of asylum-seekers that began flooding across the country's southern border in 2022. The gang recruited new members from inside city-funded Big Apple shelters — and spawned the troublesome 'Little Devils' gang, which has largely dodged serious charges because they are minors. In the May 5 assault, a mob of 'Diablos' stormed through the Staten Island Mall wreaking havoc, including by ganging up on the disabled teen, attacking him and stealing his bag and $38, police said. 4 The NYPD says it has identified 40 members of the migrant teen gang 'Diablos de la 42' who have terrorized the Big Apple. Obtained by the NY Post 4 The NYPD put out an alert for this migrant, suspected in a gang assault of an autistic boy at the Staten Island Mall. dcpi 'It makes me sick these kids are still here,' the victim's furious mom previously told The Post. 'They should have been deported a long time ago. I had to keep my son home for a week because he was so scared.' The gang-associated suspect busted Tuesday over the mall attack was charged with second-degree robbery — but is likely to get a slap on the wrist like his cohorts because of the state's lenient juvenile justice laws, which refer underage minors to family court and release them without bail. The suspect is also being eyed for a separate 'Diablos' attack last week, during which as many as a dozen of the pint-sized punks allegedly attacked another teen and stole a $250 Christian Dior sneaker off him at knifepoint, according to cops and sources. The NYPD has identified 40 members of the 'Diablos' gang and lists about 30 others as 'associates' who have been busted in dozens of assaults and robberies in the five boroughs. Police said the gang's cowardly MO is to mob vulnerable victims.
Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Diablo creator rips into modern ARPGs for being all about "killing screen-fulls of things instantly," says Diablo 2's pacing "is great" and "that's one of the reasons it's endured"
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. David Brevik, lead designer on the original Diablo game and the person most often credited for the ARPG series' creation, isn't a big fan of modern ARPGs. Talking to VideoGamer, Brevik railed against the blistering pace of much newer ARPGs. Naturally, he didn't name any specific examples, but I mean, it's pretty obvious that he's referencing Diablo 4 and, perhaps, Path of Exile 2. "I think that ARPGs in general have started to lean into this: kill swaths of enemies all over the place extremely quickly,' Brevik said. "Your build is killing all sorts of stuff so you could get more drops, you can level up, and the screen is littered with stuff you don't care about." Of course, Diablo has always been about clicking things to death and not a whole lot more, and I say that with extreme fondness for the series as someone whose first online obsession was the original Diablo. That said, Brevik seemed to be arguing that it's the pace of the death clicks that was slower and more deliberate back when he was at Blizzard. "I don't find that as kind of personal and realistic as like Diablo 2. The pacing on Diablo 2, I think is great," he said. "That's one of the reasons it's endured. I just don't find killing screen-fulls of things instantly and mowing stuff down and walking around the level and killing everything, very enticing. I just don't feel like that is a cool experience. I find it kind of silly." As someone who plays and mostly enjoys Diablo 4, I get where Brevik is coming from. There's definitely something to be said for the older Diablos' restraint in terms of enemy density and player builds that helps foster a thicker, more mellow, more immersive atmosphere. Brevik left Blizzard in 2003 and would eventually take on a role as advisor for the Chinese version of Path of Exile, Diablo's most direct competitor. He later started up Graybeard games and released a new action-RPG called It Lurks Below to positive reviews. DRM-free store GOG launches a new way for fans to influence which games get preserved "forever," and players are going to bat for Diablo 2, OG Final Fantasy 7, and a pile of cult classics.
