Diablo

Diablo III’s Witch Doctor Will See You Now

Methyl Ethyl Cosplay isn’t just doing Diablo III cosplay here, she’s paying direct tribute to some of the game’s early concept art by Blizzard’s Glenn Rane All photos by Michael Mac. You can see more of Methyl Ethyy’s cosplay at her Facebook page

Diablo III Brings Back The Necromancer

Diablo II’s Necromancer is returning to Diablo III in Rise of the Necromancer, a new pack that will come out next year. There’s no word on price yet, but the pack will include the Necromancer as well as two character slots and some other cosmetic boosts. Specifically: In addition to unlocking the Necromancer as a…

Blizzard Is Remaking Diablo Inside Of Diablo III

Blizzard will release a remake of Diablo inside of Diablo III as part of an upcoming “20th anniversary” patch, the company said today. It’ll include a 16-level dungeon and the four main bosses from the first Diablo. The patch, The Darkening of Tristam, will be free to Reaper of Souls owners on both PC and…

Blizzard’s Chris Metzen Retires

Blizzard’s lord of lore (and sunglasses), Chris Metzen, is retiring from video games. Metzen is primarily known for two things: 1) giving speeches at BlizzCon that would put most video game characters to shame, and 2) helping mold the worlds of obscure games called Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, and Overwatch. One could also argue that he’s…

Ten Isometric Action RPGs Worth Trying

They’ve been called many things over the years. Isometric RPGs, hack’n’slash RPGs, ARPGs, Diablo clones. But one thing is certain: They wouldn’t exist if Diablo didn’t come out in 1996. Diablo and its sequels spawned a whole catalog of isometric action RPGs. This piece originally appeared 3/30/16. It’s a catalog of sometimes pretty similar games,…

Former Diablo III game director Jay Wilson has left Blizzard to pursue a career in writing, the developer announced on Twitter. You may remember him as the person whoprivately talked smack about the creator of Diablo

Diablo III Cosplay Is Some Max Gear Attire

Fabricator Djinn has been working on this Diablo III outfit for years now, and the result looks like it was definitely worth the wait/effort. It’s fitting that Imperius is the greatest warrior in the heavens, because this is some of the greatest Diablo cosplay we’ve ever seen. You can see the outfit come together in…

Diablo III‘s New Patch Is All About Cosmetics

Diablo III’s patch 2.4.1 is now live, with Season 6 starting on Friday, and that means a lot of new items to loot! This time it’s all about cosmetic wings, pets and various transmog items. This post was originally published on March 10, 2016, and was updated to reflect the patch’s release. Cosmetics haven’t ever…

Diablo III’s Skeleton King is Ready to Pound You Into the Floor

His Majesty King Leoric of Khanduras was already a decently badass-looking boss in Diablo III, especially considering his lowly status as the game’s first unique boss. Well, here, he’s on a whole other level. This piece of 3D fan art was done using… Zbrush for modeling, maya for retopology and rigging, substance painter for textures…

Blizzard Hit By Multiple DDoS Attacks

Players couldn’t log into games like World of Warcraft and Diablo III for several hours last night thanks to a series of DDoS attacks that flooded Blizzard’s servers, the developer said. Blizzard says they’ve since thwarted the problem, though some login issues could linger this morning. DDoS, which stands for Distributed Denial of Service, refers…

Blizzcon 2016 is taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center in California on November 4 and 5. The $199 tickets will be sold in two batches on April 20 and 23. If you get one, you’re made of magic.

Diablo II’s Final Boss, Looking Unusually Badass

This Baal is more like the Baal I’d imagine after dying over ten times in Diablo II Act V’s Worldstone Chamber. The above model is the fifth and final piece of a 3D fanart series about the act bosses of Diablo II. The artist, Svein Yngve Sandvik Antonsen from Norway, first started working on the…

19 Years Later, Man Pays Diablo Dev For A Game He Pirated As A Teen

Turns out, it’s never too late to do the right thing. Last week in San Francisco, the Game Developers Conference held a postmortem for Diablo, the classic PC game released in 1996. Headlined by David Brevik, a co-founder of Blizzard North, the presentation gave a fantastic behind-the-scene look at how the action role-playing game came…

Diablo III Player Reaches Level 70 In 33 Seconds

Boosting a character got a lot easier in Diablo III since the introduction of Paragon levels and Seasons, and it always was quick playing as a level 1 character in an otherwise max level party of four. Still, reaching the non-Paragon level cap in 33 seconds is still pretty impressive. It’s not necessarily the best…

Read Diablo’s Original Pitch Document

This is how history was made. David Brevik was one of the co-founders of Blizzard North. He was there are the very beginning of the Diablo series, and as part of a GDC talk he made last week has uploaded a copy of the classic game’s original pitch document. It’s not long (at least by…

Years Later, Blizzard Releases a New Diablo II Patch

Diablo II just got its first patch since 2011 (October 27, to be exact). It’s not a content patch, but it helps ensure that the game can run on current platforms. How cool is that? Here’s Blizzardon Diablo II’s 1.14a patch: This update focuses on system glitches introduced by modern operating systems. In related news,…

Diablo Boss Azmodan Returns To Heroes of the Storm With Basketballs

Well, that’s certainly a skin that wouldn’t work in Diablo III, but is completely fine in the casual environment of Heroes of the Storm. Act III’s “Lord of Sin” from Diablo III now has a slam dunk-ready alternate, called… Azmodunk! Because of its original name and its ability animations, Azmodunk was something players have been…

Diablo III Players Discover New Secret Cow Level

In honor of an artist who worked on World of Warcraft and Diablo, and who passed away two years ago, Diablo devs secretly snuck a mini-event into Diablo III. It’s a special version of the famous Cow level and players found it pretty quickly. It’s very easy to unlock compared to other Diablo III secrets.…

There’s A Puppet Playing Diablo on Twitch Now

“I am blue because that’s the way I was born…” “‘Literally a puppet literally playing games.’ Both statements are true.” Oh, Bennyfits, let’s be best internet friends. He’s only got three archived broadcasts so far and no bio but it’s plain to see that the fuzzy blue puppet called Bennyfits has the glow of game-streaming…

If Diablo‘s Deckard Cain Were In Heroes of the Storm

Deckard Cain might not be a powerful hero of the Blizzard universe, but still, Diablo’s fan favorite NPC is one of the most wanted characters for Heroes of the Storm. Carbot made an awesome animation playing with the idea of what the wise old man could do in a MOBA. Cain is a hero requested…