Diablo

Diablo III With WoW’s Camera Looks Like a Totally Different Game

Diablo III and all its predecessors have a fixed camera with an isometric view. We can zoom in, but basically that’s it. Monstrousd3 messed a bit with the camera angles and made a short clip showing how the game would look from a different perspective, similar to World of Warcraft’s. It certainly looks a bit…

Diablo III Will Never Be The Same With Bighead Mode

Who needs new items or Season 3 when it’s possible to transform every character in Diablo III into bobblehead dolls. Spotted by Mads Lund on the game’s public test realms, he took this new mode for a test drive and captured some footage. Big headed Cain, Skeleton King, Maghda, Kulle, Diablo, Malthael, they’re all there,…

What A Lucky Diablo III Encounter Looks Like

What’s better than bumping into a rare pack of Treasure Goblins in Diablo III? Bumping into two packs, around two dozen goblins right next to each other, all carrying tons of loot and legendaries. Riuku‘s Season 2 Barbarian was lucky enough using that Ancient Furnace axe to one-shot all of them on Torment VI difficulty.…

The Saturday Stream Challenges Heroes Of The Storm [All Done!]

“Is challenged by” might have been a more appropriate turn of phrase to use in the headline, but I figured if I wrote it that way and believed hard enough it would come true. Anyway, let’s play Blizzard’s MOBA! Several members of Kotaku have been getting into the MOBA scene these days. As I type…

Blizzard Testing Diablo III Microtransactions, But (Phew) Only In Asia

Diablo III has changed a lot over the years, dropping a much-loathed auction house and gaining all sorts of balance overhauls, enemies, and entire new areas. Now, however, it could be looking at a change of a very different sort: real money microtransactions and a new in-game currency to support them. Patch 2.2.0, which will…

Diablo III Player Reaches Level 1,000 Without Dying

Gaining 1,000 Paragon levels in Diablo III is no small feat and it’s only accomplished by a very few amount of players. But doing it on Hardcore difficulty, where your character’s death is permanent, that’s some next level insanity. Ukranian player Nokieka is the first in the world to do it. According to Battle.net and…

Cyberpunk Diablo & Studio Ghibli’s Star Wars: An Artist’s Impressions

Stormtroopers are comical at the best of times. Turn them into bearded Studio Ghibli sidekicks and they become downright slapstick. And yeah, Diablo is a fantasy series, but close your eyes and try for a second to imagine it as a cyberpunk thing instead, with neon lights, hacking and sweet future motorbikes. These images, and…

A Lucky Way To Start Diablo III

This is what a painfully lucky encounter with Diablo III’s random number generator looks like. Player duslol not only got a rare Conduit Pylon with its zapping instant-kill buffs right at the entrance of an end-game dungeon, but an even rarer pack of Treasure Goblins next to it, all standing in a narrow hallway, ending…

The All-Star Blizzard Toy Line We’ve Always Wanted

Across its handful of properties Blizzard has some of the most iconic characters in gaming. It’s free-to-play MOBA Heroes of the Storm brings them all together, and now NECA’s Heroes of the Storm action figure line is making toy collectors’ dreams come true. While outfits like Sideshow Toys keep Blizzard in the high-end collectibles, we’ve…

In 1997, Lucasarts Tried To Copy Diablo

People gave Lucasarts a lot of crap towards the end, mostly for being a company interested in nothing but licensed garbage. For the most part that was totally fair criticism. But there was once a time when Lucasarts wasn’t just brave, it was a little weird about it. That era was the late 90s, a…

Cosplayer Beats WoW‘s Loot Drops By Building Her Own Armor

“I never got it in-game, so I thought I’m gonna make it and I’m going to have my own Lightbringer set at the house.” Makes sense, when you’re a gifted costume-maker. The cosplay at Blizzcon last week featured amazing outfits that looked like they suddenly teleported out of Blizzard’s popular games and onto actual human…

The Coolest Cosplay from Blizzcon 2014

Basically, some of these costumes look like folks’ World of Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft characters walked right through the screen and caught a flight to Anaheim. The House of Warcraft held their annual fanfest last week and dropped a big bomb in the form of Overwatch, which had a bit of day-one representation. But most…

Five Gaming Rumors That Were Too Good To Stay Fake

Lots of things in video games sound too good to be true. But what about when it’s the other way around—when something is too good to not be true? Erhm, you know what I mean. The trivia-themed YouTube channel “Did You Know Gaming?” recently took a look at five myths that became so pervasive among…

Blizzard is planning to add this cool Diablo-themed map as a Battleground in Heroes of the Storm, with the High Heavens going up against the forces of Hell. Not much is known yet, but it’d look great if the winning side could slowly take over the other half of the map, just like Zerg creep.…

Diablo‘s Future? Definitely Not An MMO

Not so long ago, Blizzard voiced interest in taking Diablo to other genres post-Diablo III—up to and including an MMO. That was the goal, said then-game-director Jay Wilson: to evolve the universe to be able to “support” an MMO. Now, however, times have changed, and so has Blizzard. Speaking during an interview at BlizzCon, lead…

Blizzard has shared some new info on Diablo III‘s upcoming Season 2. New conquests, new legendaries, and more.

17 Things The World Saw Since Blizzard’s Last New Franchise 17 Years Ago

Blizzard announcedOverwatch today, it’s first new franchise in more than 17 years. Children born when Starcraft came out (yeah Starcraft was their last new game) will graduating high school soon. If that wasn’t enough for you, here are 17 big things in the world/gaming that have happened since 1997. Facebook – 2004 iPods, iPhones, iPads,…

Newbie Lessons Learned After A Few More Hours Playing Diablo III

Following a four-hour Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition online co-op session with Kirk Hamilton last night (I’m a Demon Hunter, expert difficulty, was at level 50 and at the end of Act III) and still being a novice to the whole thing… Expert difficulty level is too easy for level-50 characters. (We switched to Master…

Two Players Already Unlocked Every Diablo III Season 1 Achievement

Quite the feat, considering Diablo III‘s Season 1, where everyone started with fresh characters, only launched at the end of August on PC. But still, two guys already managed to climb to the top and get every single one of the achievements. 7880 points in total. One of them is Mikeh on the US side…

Heads Up: Your New Last-Gen Game May Not Get DLC

Console transitions are weird, sometimes sloppy things, and the latest—from PS3/Xbox 360 to PS4/Xbox One—is no different. The newest wrinkle? Games like Forza Horizon 2 and Diablo III are only offering DLC and major updates to current-gen versions. Last-gen, meanwhile, is stuck out in the cold. Forza community manager Brian Ekberg explained the now sadly…