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Diablo III 2.1 Patch Brings Greater Rifts And Legendary Gems To PS4
Now that PlayStation 4 players have had time to enjoy the more “casual” content of Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition, it’s time to get down to some serious endgame business. Patch 2.1.0 is will be available on the console today. Legendary loot follows. While we’re still waiting on word for the patch for the Xbox…
By Mike Fahey Published October 7, 2014 -
A Pop Ballad About Diablo III‘s Most Infamous Vendor
Dreamreaver‘s song is about Kadala, the passive-aggressive item vendor of Diablo III, who—although it was fixed not long ago—due to a bug, always sold items in a taunting manner with comments like “good paperweight, for which you can find a use… someday,” no matter how good the purchase was. After spending more than 20k Blood…
By Gergo Vas Published September 26, 2014 -
Diablo III Still Has A Difficulty Problem
The fall is usually a time for people plow through the latest and greatest games. This year, however, I’ve also been revisiting an old friend of sorts inDiablo III. But as I work my way through the game anew on my PS4, a big problem has flared up once again: something about its difficulty still…
By Yannick LeJacq Published September 23, 2014 -
The Moment When a Diablo III Player Reaches #1
Alkaizer is one of the best Diablo III players out there, sitting at the number one spot with his Barbarian on the Season 1 leaderboards and now—as this video proves—he has claimed this position with his Crusader as well. Pretty cool for a solo player. In this segment, you can watch him clear a Rank…
By Gergo Vas Published September 19, 2014 -
This Guy Just Won The Diablo III Lottery
Finding cool items in Diablo III is one thing, but having the greatest luck at the perfect moment while trying to get the number one spot on the leaderboards is just a different level of luck. Watch the short segment from Moses2265’s stream to see how lucky he was with his Wizard. He was about…
By Gergo Vas Published September 16, 2014 -
Diablo III’s Endgame Dungeons Can Be Disappointingly Empty
Greater Rifts in Diablo III are unforgiving sometimes—not because they’re hard, but because you have 15 minutes to kill a huge amount of monsters, even if the dungeon doesn’t actually have that many of them. YouTuber avtorouc entered one of these dungeons where the monster density was, well, quite low. He was lucky it wasn’t…
By Gergo Vas Published September 15, 2014 -
One Diablo III Feature That Gets The Game Back To Its Roots
Every Diablo fan remembers the first time they encountered The Butcher. Hearing the demon growl as he strode out of a room littered with bloody corpses gave us a terrifying glimpse at the hellish things to come in all our journeys: At least, that’s The Butcher from the original Diablo, which first came out for…
By Yannick LeJacq Published September 11, 2014 -
Tips & Guides
15 Must Have Diablo III Items
After an expansion, a console port, and several patches, Diablo III looks really healthy right now. With tons of special items and legendaries added to the game it almost—almost!—feels like Diablo II again, with all the math you have to do to assemble the perfect character with the perfect gear. We gathered 15 really great…
By Gergo Vas Published September 10, 2014 -
Why Did Nobody Tell Me There’s A Suikoden Reference In Diablo III?
Kotaku, we need to talk. You all KNOW that Suikoden II is my favorite game of all time, yet in the six months since Diablo III‘s Reaper of Souls expansion came out, not ONE of you has told me about this incredible Luca Blight reference. Until this past weekend, when Kotaku reader/hero Phil Caron told…
By Jason Schreier Published September 8, 2014 -
One Of The Most Difficult Things In Diablo III
Torment VI is no longer the hardest setting in Diablo III. With Greater Rifts—tiered dungeons—added, everything beyond Rank 25 is harder. So completing a Rank 40 Greater Rift is quite difficult. Yet, some folks can complete them in under 8 minutes. You have 15 minutes to do the run, every mob has billions of HP…
By Gergo Vas Published September 8, 2014 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Get Tons of Loot in Diablo III’s New Dungeons
Diablo III‘s patch 2.1 for the PC introduced new endgame content: Greater Rifts. These are tiered, higher level dungeons with a 15-minute timer and with a boss at the end who almost always drops awesome loot. And there’s a smart way to finish these dungeons and get huge amount of legendaries. Here’s Diablo III veteran…
By Gergo Vas Published September 3, 2014 -
I’m Falling In Love With Long Video Games Again
I used to be really into the perfect “five-hour” game. These weren’t necessarily games that took five hours to complete, but it was always somewhere around that length of time that made it feel like the right amount of enjoyment without overstaying its welcome. I’m talking about games like the original Portal or even experiences…
By Tina Amini Published September 2, 2014 -
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Gets Its First Major Update
2.1.0 brings with it a competitive game mode based on Diablo II’s online ladders, called Seasons, and a new type of endgame dungeon: Greater Rifts. Both of these new additions will be supported by another newly introduced feature, the leaderboards, deepening the competitive aspect of the game—and of course, there’s hundreds of bugfixes and balance…
By András Neltz Published August 27, 2014 -
Diablo III On Xbox One vs PS4 vs PC
Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition dropped for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this week, and it’s good. So good, in fact, that it has Kotaku‘s Yannick LeJacq switching his Diablo allegiance from PC to PS4 Now the folks at Digital Foundry have put together a helpful side-by-side comparison of the game running on all three…
By Cameron Gidari Published August 23, 2014 -
In The End, Diablo III Just Shouldn’t Have Been ‘Always Online’
Last night, I stayed up really late playing Diablo III. The internet here is spotty at best. I played a bunch of Diablo anyway. The only reason I was able to do that without regularly pulling my hair with irritation was that I wasn’t playing Diablo III on PC. Instead, I was playing Diablo III:…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 20, 2014 -
Psychedelic Art Inspired By Some Very Specific Diablo References
This is a piece of digital artwork called “Halls of Viscera.” Look familiar? The “halls” and “viscera” are big hints. Ok, fine: it’s Diablo. Well, sort of. “Halls of Viscera” is one piece from an upcoming exhibition of Canadian artist Alex McLeod’swork that will go up next month in Montreal. All of the work I’ve…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 20, 2014 -
Diablo III Feels Like It Was Made For Next-Gen Consoles
It all started with the dodge button. Blizzard added that to Diablo III when bringing it to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2013. Dodging was a great feature, but it wasn’t enough to make me switch my allegiance from playing on a PC. Now that Diablo III is out for the PS4 and…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 19, 2014 -
Which Diablo III Class Is Best?
Current-day Diablo III is a pretty different game from the one that launched back in 2012. But for all the changes, one thing remains the same: You still have to choose a character class before you play. Back when Diablo III first came out, I wasn’t surewhich class to pick. Should I be a monk?…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 18, 2014