Diablo

Blizzard has revealed the very first key artwork for their upcoming all-star game, Heroes of the Storm, which we should be seeing more of tomorrow at BlizzCon. Everyone’s here: Sylvanas from WoW, Nova from StarCraft, the Witch Doctor from Diablo, even Illidan and Anub’arak, I’m already sold! Here’s the full image with Tychus (a single…

Diablo Origami Is Glorious

These incredible figures of Tyrael and Diablo himself are the work of an avid Diablo fan, TaeHyeon Hong from South-Korea, and he made them out of nothing but paper. Hong used something called the kirigami technique, which basically involves cutting up pieces of paper and morphing them like origami figures. It’s how he created this…

Blizzard Thinking Of Charging $30 For Diablo III Expansion

A survey sent out to Diablo III players, as seen by Polygon, talks about pricing for the game’s upcoming expansion, Reaper of Souls. And how it’s not going to be cheap. “Consider two versions of the expansion: a Standard Edition for $29.99 and a Collector’s Edition for $49.99”, the survey says. “The Standard Edition includes…

In An Era Of Online Launch Fiascoes, Gamers Deserve Some Rights

On October 1, President Obama took the stage at a press conference and did something unusual for the leader of the free world: He explained why a website wasn’t working. Specifically, Obamacare’s overloaded online service healthcare.gov, which hadn’t had a particularly smooth launch. For a moment, the president sounded indistinguishable from a PR rep for…

Why Whoopi Goldberg Prefers Diablo To GTA

There’s been a lot of awful media backlash today to video games but, weirdly, one place it didn’t happen was on The View Sure, they talk over each other a bit — but they’re adult enough to admit that the problem isn’t with violent games but with parenting. The best part, however, comes at the…

Blizzard Kills Diablo III Auction Houses

Diablo III‘s most despised feature will soon be no more. Blizzard has just announced that they’re stripping the game’s controversial auction houses, effective on March 18, 2014. This is a surprising move for the folks behind the third Diablo, which has dealt with heavy criticism since it first launched last summer. The real-money auction house,…

Conan O’Brien Is Unimpressed With The Voices In Diablo III

If you’ve ever imagined what’s going on in the heads of your Diablo III characters, it probably has something to do with killing and looting and questing. But not according to Conan’s imagination. Not his funniest work, but I continue to enjoy Conan’s increasing interest in video games.

Imperius, Mephisto and our scoundrel ally, Lyndon from Diablo 3 never looked as powerful and realistic as they do on digital artist TamplierPainter‘s paintings. These, as well as his whole gallery on deviantART, which features other games besides Diablo, are absolutely breathtaking. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the…

By Odin’s Beard, The Thor Game Looks A Lot Like Diablo

The first trailer for the official game for Thor: We Might As Well Make A Sequel is here, and I’m getting a definite Diablo vibe off it. Looks like Thor is a whirlwind Barbarian. Thor: The Dark World, coming this November to smartphones and tablets, is a Gameloft creation, and Gameloft of course makes the…

Let’s Play Diablo III On Console, Live

Diablo III is here for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and I’d much rather play it than work, so I’m going to play it as work, and let you watch. For the next hour I will be talking and kicking things and maybe even trying to get into a multiplayer match, but I make…

The First Time Diablo Came To Consoles

Diablo III comes to consoles today, and I’m just as giddy as I was back in March 1998, picking up my copy of Diablo for the original PlayStation — and the additional memory card needed to save the game. Picking up a new game was a special event for 24-year-old me. There was a ritual…

Diablo III is arriving on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 today. The console version of Blizzard’s hack n’ slash RPG is here, bringing with it offline/local co-op and an updated, streamlined interface. For an idea on how the game plays with a controller, check out our impressions here

Diablo III‘s Expansion Sure Looks Dark. Finally!

Earlier this morning Blizzard revealed the first expansion for Diablo III with a cinematic trailer and some gameplay action. Breaking these two videos down into GIF format, we could easily jump to the conclusion that we finally might see a return to the dark, classic, trademark Diablo theme. Malthael, the fallen Archangel of Wisdom that…

Diablo III Gets Its First Expansion Pack

Reaper of Souls is the first expansion for Diablo III. Blizzard revealed a whole new act, a new hero called The Crusader and the act boss: Malthael. What has been revealed so far, behind closed doors [Updated]: The expansion is called Reaper of Souls The new, playable, mid-range melee class is The Crusader. Focuses on…

A new teaser page appeared on the official Diablo 3 site, with the name Reaper of Souls in it and an image having the “d3x_teaser-en-us.jpg” filename. Although it’s not confirmed officially, there’s a good possibility that this could be the expansion. The first Diablo III expansion is “Reaper of Souls”, teaser site is live [NeoGAF]…

Take THAT, Demonic Goat Person Thing

Blizzard concept artist Laurel Austin, who we’ve showcased on our Fine Art feature previously, just released this image she drew for the Diablo III launch last year. It’s late, but we can always wait for Barbarians vs Goatmen. Barbarian and Goatman [CGHub]

The PlayStation 3 version of Diablo III will feature custom in-game items from games like…Uncharted, and…Journey. OK.

Diablo III To Hit Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on September 3

Blizzard has just announced that Diablo III is coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on September 3 this year. The console version of Blizzard’s 2012 hack and slash title will cost $59.99, and features a new user interface better suited to consoles, while also including every update released for the PC version of the…

Hope You Never Miss Out On Something Because You Played A Game Solo

Anxiety caused by the fear of missing out (FOMO) is a real thing: it’s when you worry that no matter what you’re doing at that moment, you could be doing something better somewhere else. Typically, FOMO is discussed in the context of social media, as social media feeds into the fear of missing out. We…

Crave Some Random Facts? This Diablo III Infographic Is Just For You

Blizzard’s hack and slash extravaganza Diablo III has been out for over a year now, and they decided to celebrate with an infographic. From the usual statistics to quirky trivia, this one has them all—though I would’ve loved to know exactly how many keyboards were broken over Error 37. Check out the graphic below.