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One of the cornerstones of PC gaming is the modding scene. The best games embrace this. The good ones at least let you play with certain aspects of a game. The stupid ones try and ban them outright. More »
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Blizzard won't be the only one potentially making a profit on Diablo III. Anyone who plays the dark fantasy hack and slash game could, thanks to its Auction House, a new in-game service that allows players to buy and sell loot not just for virtual gold, but for cold, hard cash. More »
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I have defeated Diablo III's Skeleton King and, in doing so, also bested the upcoming Blizzard game's multiplayer beta. Soon, many of us will have the privilege to do so, hacking and slashing our way through an early portion of the next Diablo, over and over again, seeing its randomness and testing its new improvements. More »
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There's still no firm date on Blizzard's next entry in the Diablo series, but at least one of the game's official tie-ins, Diablo III: Book of Cain, is expected to arrive in 2011. So what is Diablo III: Book of Cain? More »
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When it was first explained to me way back in 2008, the power-enhancing rune system of Diablo III sounded like it would lead to countless permutations of every skill and spell in the game. Now it's only five, but they're still pretty spectacular. More »
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Who are these three mysterious additions to Diablo III? They're not new character classes in Blizzard's upcoming action-role-playing game; they're "Followers," the co-op companions you'll play alongside in the next Diablo game. More »
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Blizzard's action role-playing game Diablo isn't just about the click-click-click of whacking on monsters and chugging potions. There are tactical considerations, like how one will deal with the constant flow monsters in Diablo III, that one must keep in mind. More »
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The Diablo III Demon Hunter class uses double crossbows. What, you wanted more than that? She's pretty hot, and uses double crossbows. More »
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The Blizzard keynote at this year's Game Developers Conference just kicked off. More »
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Blizzard has revealed the male model of Diablo III's wizard class, sporting a look that many late 70's, early 80's rock stars would have given all of their chest hair for. More »
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Activision Blizzard execs listed a bunch of new games for 2010 during a conference call today but declined to be anything other than cagey on the topic of Diablo III. More »
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Blizzard pulls no punches this April 1st, with not one but four different pranks featuring pimped mounts, a new Diablo III class, the biggest StarCraft 2 unit ever created, and PVP dance battles. More »
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In the latest episode of the Blizzard podcast, Diablo III senior artist Mike Nicholson discusses organizing the inventory system by size and giving skill buttons a World of Warcraft makeover. More »
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Someone fetch original Diablo producer Bill Roper a rainbow unicorn t-shirt, as the former VP of Blizzard North explains that Diablo III just doesn't feel like a Diablo game. More »
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Blizzard has updated the official Diablo III website with a set of four bits of artwork and five new screens, one featuring an opponent that could even the bravest player pee a little. More »
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When I met Jay Wilson today, Blizzard's lead designer on Diablo III, I opened our conversation with two loaded little words: Art direction. I didn't need to say any more, of course, because Wilson already knew about the fan-fit I was referring to. "It's a complex issue," he said. "It's been a big issue online, but for the most part, the response we've gotten has been very positive. We've got petitions, a few people on forums [who are] very loud, but it's really more of the 'squeaky wheel' syndrome." "Certainly, internally there's no doubt. I would tell people who don't like the art style that probably, getting the art style was the hardest thing." But there's a careful method to all of it, Wilson explained: More »
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By: Lesley Smith
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In case you were wondering, we are indeed aware that you can access the Diablo 3 forum on Battle.net through this link. You can also access the Diablo 4 forums here, and the Diablo 5 forums here. Not proof folks, just placeholders. This won't stop the tide of email, but it sure makes us feel better. More »
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The last few days have been good sport for anyone who enjoys watching the internet conjure rumours out of sheer fantasy. Take the one concerning Diablo 3, for example. The teaser for next month's PC Gamer contained the line "so huge we had to go to [CENSORED] to get it," and from that nondescript sliver, we somehow got a ton of people convinced Diablo 3 is coming. And hey, it might be, sometime in the future, but not now, with PC Gamer telling Shacknews "we're officially squelching the Diablo rumor. We've got two big announcements coming in our August issue, but neither is from Blizzard". Case closed. Return to your Diablo fan forums and remain there until further notice. More »
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Mockery, the owner of long-lived Diablo fan site Diablo3.com, said today that he sold the domain name to Blizzard and plans to hand it over completely in a few months. More »
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I've long been mulling over exactly how a theoretical Diablo III should look...for years now. You see, Diablo is a 2D franchise entering a 3D world. And its graphical style, as trivial and superficial as the topic may seem, will affect the way the game feels to play (which many have probably noticed in 3D Diablo clones like Dungeon Runners that feel distinctly less satisfying). More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=363595&view=rss&microfeed=true Most of us at Kotaku (everyone minus Fahey) generally avoid MMOs like cactus barbed with Hello Kitty needles. But this new trailer of Mythos (the Flagship Studios Diabloesque MMO made by some ex-Blizzard folks) has us seriously questioning whether or not we really need lives after all, and if interactions with others—in the flesh, without the +2 Electric Boots of Courage—aren't entirely overrated. More »
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When World of Warcraft came out, I lamented the fact that it wasn't Diablo 3. After all, Diablo 2 is probably still my favorite game of all time: I actually scratched a good chunk of flesh off my face when I missed the 90 day window for logging into B.net by a couple of days and lost three 90+ Hell characters and one 70+ Hard Core Necromancer. More »
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Yesterday, we crossed our legs so high up that we squealed, then reported that the long-awaited Diablo 3 may make a showing at the Blizzard E3 booth. Our evidence was an advertisement for IGN Insider, claiming that Diablo 3 would be part of their special E3 content. Even at the time, we knew getting excited over the rather spurious proof was directly comparable to proposing marriage after a hot girl accidentally rubs up against you in a crowded elevator. Still, we hoped, we prayed, we tried to call in favors from Jay Cee, M-Dawg and the entire million-plus pantheon of hardcore Hindu deities. If there's one game we want announced at E3, it's Diablo 3. More »
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Does IGN Insider know something the rest of us don't? More »
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I just got an interesting update about Diablo 3. Rumor has it that the current work on Diablo 3 was canceled and that the game is going to be completely reworked. More »
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More Diablo 3 rumors hit the net Thursday night. A Korean site has posted what they claim to be the box art for the game and some details about the classic dungeon-crawler sequel. More »
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