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Diablo III Changes Ensure the Game Will Remain Popular in the Future

Blizzard has revealed a few more details about the array of changes that it’s recently made to Diablo III, saying that they will ensure the role playing dungeon crawler will be popular for a decade after its release. Diablo III has been eagerly awaited by millions of gamers from all around the world. As you ca...

23 January 2012
05:31 GMT

Diablo III on Consoles Still Isn’t Officially in Development, Blizzard Says

Blizzard has released a new statement about the possibility of seeing Diablo III on consoles, saying that it’s still not officially in development, thus denying a reveal from earlier this week. Blizzard is a studio that always likes to take its time when it comes to games that are awaited by millions of fans. ...

12 January 2012
15:51 GMT

South Korea Delays Diablo III Rating Over Gambling Concerns

The global release of Diablo III, the eagerly awaited role playing dungeon crawler from Blizzard, might be in danger. This is due to the South Korean Game Rating Board, which doesn’t want to pass a ruling due to the game’s Auction House feature because it resembles gambling. South Korea has always had a very hars...

5 January 2012
15:41 GMT

Blizzard Marks Diablo’s 15-Year Anniversary With Official Timeline

It’s a bit hard to believe but the long running Diablo franchise has turned 15, so Blizzard, its developer, has decided to celebrate this by releasing a special timeline of all the events that happened with the series up until now. Diablo I was released on December 31, 1996, in North America, and soon after th...

5 January 2012
10:54 GMT

Diablo III on Consoles Mentioned in New Job Listing Posted by Blizzard

Diablo III is coming to the PC in early 2012, but its developer, Blizzard, is still experimenting with a possible console edition of the game, which has once again been proved through a new job listing posted by the studio. Diablo III has been a long time coming, with Blizzard teasing fans for quite some time while ...

29 December 2011
19:31 GMT

Diablo 3 Will Be Built For Consoles, Not Ported by Blizzard

Blizzard, the studio behind hit franchises like StarCraft or World of Warcraft, has once again talked about bringing Diablo III, its next big release, onto consoles, saying that its current team is still exploring the idea, mainly because the company wants to really build it for consoles from the ground up, instead o...

22 November 2011
17:31 GMT

Download Diablo II Patch 1.13d for Mac OS X

Blizzard Entertainment has released the latest patch for its action RPG, Diablo II. The update, touching PC gamers worldwide, including those rocking Mac OS X, brings new features, as well as the usual bag of fixes for some known bugs. The game is now at version 1.13d.As far as new features are concerned, ignoring pl...

31 October 2011
14:21 GMT

Diablo III Collector's Edition Showcased, Includes Lots of Goodies

Diablo III has received quite a lot of details over the weekend after the end of Blizzard's BlizzCon event, and now we get to talk about the special Collector's Edition, which includes a variety of in-game and real life goodies for true fans of the role playing dungeon crawler.Diablo III has been expected a...

25 October 2011
06:58 GMT

Diablo III Release Delayed Into Early 2012 by Blizzard

Blizzard has just announced a brand new release window for its eagerly awaited Diablo III role playing dungeon crawler, as it is now scheduled to be launched in early 2012, instead of the previous end of the year estimate.Diablo fans were treated with massive news at the beginning of the week, as Blizzard kicked off ...

23 September 2011
08:53 GMT

Diablo III Feels Great With a Console Controller, Blizzard Says

Just as the closed beta for Diablo III is being rolled out, Blizzard has revealed a few interesting details about its ongoing tests with the role playing dungeon crawler on consoles, and how their controllers are much better suited to its type of gameplay.Blizzard has been mainly a computer-based developer, as many o...

22 September 2011
18:01 GMT

Diablo III Auction House and Battle.net To Support PayPal

Blizzard has announced that its upcoming Diablo III role playing game will support popular online payment service PayPal for the new Auction House feature announced last month, while its current Battle.net online service will soon allow players to make purchases with just a valid PayPal account.Blizzard caused a lot ...

15 September 2011
17:11 GMT

Diablo III Community Website Now Available

Blizzard has released a brand new gathering place for fans of its Diablo role-playing franchise, as the company launched the official Diablo III community website. Diablo III is the next big project from Blizzard, as the company has worked on the new-generation role-playing dungeon crawler for quite some time, pro...

25 August 2011
18:11 GMT

Diablo III Now in the Home Stretch, Might Launch This Year

Blizzard has just revealed that the development on Diablo III is now entering the home stretch, so we might see the eagerly awaited role-playing dungeon crawler appear on the market at the end of the year. Blizzard is definitely taking its time with the creation of Diablo III, as gamers have been awaiting the new ...

29 April 2011
15:51 GMT

Diablo III on Consoles Is Still a Possibility

Blizzard is continuing to tease the possibility of Diablo III appearing on consoles like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, not just on the PC. Ever since Diablo III was formally announced, console owners have been hoping that Blizzard would also bring the highly anticipated role-playing game to their platforms, and n...

16 March 2011
05:20 GMT

Diablo III for Consoles Is Still Investigated by Blizzard

Diablo III, even if it still hasn't received a concrete release date from Blizzard, might still get a console version, as the company is investigating such a possibility. Diablo III is Blizzard's next big release, and, seeing as how it's a simpler role-playing game than the previous StarCraft II rea...

11 February 2011
18:01 GMT

Diablo III Release Date Still Not Cleared Up by Blizzard

Blizzard, the company behind many popular franchises like StarCraft or World of Warcraft, still isn't ready to commit to a concrete release date of its next big project, the Diablo III role-playing game. Blizzard took part, alongside its Activision sister company, in an investor's call yesterday, and was...

11 February 2011
03:50 GMT

Blizzard's BlizzCon Starts on October 21

Blizzard, the company behind massively successful franchises like StarCraft or Diablo, as well as the World of Warcraft MMORPG, has just detailed the sixth edition of its BlizzCon event, which will be held on October 21. Blizzard has a very loyal and extremely large fan base, with World of Warcraft having 12 milli...

8 February 2011
15:51 GMT

Diablo III Is Suited For Consoles, Blizzard Says

Right after a Blizzard executive said that the company will bring games to consoles if they play well, the senior designer of Diablo III, one of the most expected titles coming from the company, revealed that the game is pretty suited for consoles.According to Jason Bender, who is the senior designer for the upcoming...

28 October 2010
04:21 GMT

Diablo III Gets Demon Hunter Class

Diablo III, one of the most anticipated role playing games in recent years, has just received its fifth and latest character class in the form of the Demon Hunter.Diablo III will be the next generation iteration in the very successful Diablo role playing franchise, and was officially confirmed back in 2008.Since then...

25 October 2010
06:06 GMT

Diablo III Beta Arrives Soon

Diablo III, one of the most anticipates role playing games in quite some time, will get a beta stage in the near future, fact confirmed by Blizzard, its developer and publisher.Diablo III has been a long time coming, with Blizzard taking its time on developing the next generation dungeon crawler, the followup to the ...

25 October 2010
03:31 GMT

Darkspore Revealed, First Trailer Now Available

Darkspore has been officially announced by Electronic Arts and it is a science-fiction action role playing game, as it was expected by almost everyone. The game is slated for a February 2011 launch and, at least at this moment, it is a PC exclusive. Maxis, the developers, is promising that the title will be be rich i...

21 July 2010
03:06 GMT

Diablo II Patch 1.13 Mac OS X Availability Finally Confirmed - March 23

Available for both Mac and PC, Diablo II is the sequel to the game Diablo, a dark, fantasy-themed, action, role-playing game (RPG) played in four acts. It was released for Mac OS X in 2000, under the publishing label of Blizzard Entertainment, while the development was handled by Blizzard North. Diablo II was easily ...

17 March 2010
09:57 GMT

Torchlight MMO Coming in Two Years

Torchlight has been one of the surprise hits of 2009. The game offers an experience pretty similar to that delivered by the initial Diablo, but with a few very interesting twists, like allowing players to recruit pets that can cast spells and sell loot. It was created by a team of dedicated role playing game veterans...

19 November 2009
16:31 GMT

Steam Offers Special Discount for Titan Quest, Today Only

This week Steam has a special week-long offer. Every day a different THQ game will be available for purchase as a special treat. Today the title on sale is Titan Quest Gold, and it includes the original release and the Immortal Throne expansion pack. On the Steam Store page that features the game, the special price i...

13 October 2009
04:15 GMT

Runic Has Fantasies About Their Latest RPG, Torchlight

Flagship Studios may have sunk over a year ago, but Runic Games surfaced from their wreckage and is now preparing to launch a brand-new game. Torchlight will be a dungeon crawler exclusive to the PC, but Max Schaefer, Runic Games CEO, said that they would really like to bring the game to the consoles. "We talk about ...

9 October 2009
14:31 GMT

Diablo II Patch 1.13 for Mac OS X Delayed

Blizzard Entertainment originally announced Patch 1.13 for its action RPG Diablo II earlier this year. Already delayed once, the patch is now being held up by concerns about the impact of increased player stash sizes on the battle.net servers. Early last month, Blizzard’s Bashiok revealed that work had commenc...

5 October 2009
08:18 GMT

Blizzard Disappointed over Marketing Cost Money

This year, BlizzCon gathered over 20,000 fans at the Anaheim Convention Center. Gamers from all over the world came to celebrate alongside Blizzard Entrainment the magic that were and still are Stracraft, Diablo and Warcraft. This year, Blizzard charged $125 for the entry fee, which makes perfect sense, since any sel...

18 September 2009
05:48 GMT

Diablo II Patch 1.13 for Mac OS X Coming Soon

The upcoming Diablo II Patch 1.13 was initially confirmed by Blizzard Entertainment earlier this year. Fans of the action RPG still have to wait for a solid release date, due to typical development delays, but the WoW maker trusts it will be able to deliver the much-anticipated patch soon, according to a Battle.net u...

8 September 2009
04:08 GMT

The Monk Joins Diablo III Character Class List

BlizzCon was in full swing at the end of last week and it brought forth a lot of announcements regarding all of the popular properties from Blizzard, from World of Warcraft to StarCraft and everything in between. But while many people clamored over the new expansion for WoW, dubbed Cataclysm, the company also reveale...

24 August 2009
16:41 GMT

New Diablo III Screenshots Available

Dozens of new Diablo III screenshots are available, courtesy of the folks at Gameinfowire. Diablo III, Blizzard Entertainment's highly anticipated action RPG title will allow players to revisit the world of Sanctuary where they must go against demonic forces threatening humanity once again.According to Blizzard ...

6 April 2009
05:05 GMT

Diablo III Isn't like the Original Titles, Says Producer

Blizzard is responsible for quite a lot of franchises, from the stunning and well-paced RTS titles StarCraft and WarCraft, to the very successful and immersive Diablo series and the worldwide phenomenon that is World of Warcraft. Now, as the company is hard at work with new iterations in the Diablo and StarCraft fra...

19 March 2009
04:26 GMT

Blizzard Announces a Fan Fiction Writing Contest

Even the gaming world usually looks down on those passionate gamers who are interested enough in a videogame-inspired universe in order to put pen to paper (in this day and age, we’re talking abut keyboard to monitor) in order to create new story lines and events in those universes.But it seems that gaming comp...

16 March 2009
18:51 GMT

Tell Blizz What You Want in the Next Diablo II Patch (1.13)

Blizzard Entertainment has started a new forum topic asking fans of the Diablo series to jump in and enumerate some of the changes and enhancements they'd like to see added in the next patch for Diablo II. Mac users are just as entitled to get the same content as PC users. “We’re in the process of w...

12 March 2009
07:27 GMT

StarCraft II Enters the Final Stretch, Says Blizzard

Blizzard is one of the most popular video game developers out there, largely due to the attention it directs to its games, and to the great experiences that titles such as Diablo, StarCraft or World of Warcraft offer to players. But although fans are extremely loyal to the company, the outsatndingly long and secre...

18 February 2009
03:31 GMT

Blizzard Bans 350,000 Battle.Net Users

Blizzard is one of the most popular game developers out there, largely due to the fact that its policy is to sell titles that offer deep stories and well polished experiences, with hardly any bugs or glitches that might ruin the game for the player.The online server system of the company, Battle.Net, has withstood th...

13 November 2008
04:12 GMT

Blizzard Doesn't Worry About Financial Crisis

We live in troubled times – the current financial crisis is becoming more and more aggravated each day and no company is safe from the terrible effects of this severe condition. But out of the industries that were affected by the crisis, one has proven itself to be quite safe for investors, the gaming one. Alth...

20 October 2008
07:16 GMT

Blizzard Offers Downloadable Diablo II: Lord of Destruction

Blizzard entertainment is now offering Mac and PC users the chance to back-up their library of titles by entering an existing Blizzard game CD key. As such, gamers can grab a fresh downloadable copy of their favorite Blizzard game at no extra charge.The developer's Accounts section has recently been updated, Ins...

1 July 2008
08:43 GMT

Diablo III Confirmed for Mac

At its Worldwide Invitational in Paris, Blizzard Entertainment unveiled Diablo III for PC and Mac. The game will have tremendous replayability through randomness, destructible environments and, of course, a new class."It's just before lunch in Paris, and city of lights has been invaded by hordes of Blizzard fans...

30 June 2008
03:41 GMT

Diablo and Monkey Island, One Game: DeathSpank

In a game described as "Monkey Island meets Diablo" you have to put high hopes, since Ron Gilbert, the guy that worked for several classic LucasArts adventure games including Maniac Mansion or the Monkey Island series is involved. The game he's been working on is called DeathSpank and it will be an RPG adventure...

10 January 2008
04:39 GMT

People, Get Ready for Diablo 3!

The beginning of 2008 couldn't ever get better! Really, now, we can all go to sleep and wait. Because the God of Gaming, in this particular case - Blizzard, has listened to our prayers and decided to show some sympathy towards us, the mortal gamers (according to some digging made by hardgame2.com). And what pray...

4 January 2008
05:00 GMT

Diablo Glitches and Character Classes (PSX)

Diablo is a dark fantasy-themed hack and slash action-adventure game developed by Blizzard North and released by Blizzard Entertainment in December, 1996. Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras (located in the Diablo series fantasy world of Sanctuary), Diablo has the player take control of a lone hero as he or sh...

27 August 2007
04:54 GMT

Blizzard's Next Game - Here Are All the Clues. What Do you Make of Them?

Everyone already knows that Blizzard has something in the works. Whatever the title, it's certain that it is going to be an MMO, as they're hiring people for developing a MMO game. Also, the developer has set up a site that counts down to a question mark, which should be the highly anticipated new MMO title...

18 May 2007
06:26 GMT

Next-Gen MMO from Blizzard

No, it's not StarCraft 2, enough already! Blizzard did say something about "revisiting" the RTS's scenery but in a more complex context at their World Wide Invitational (in short WWI) in Seoul.However, Lee Sang-Ho, head of MBC Game was skeptical about it: "Frankly, it's half anticipation and half worr...

2 May 2007
10:06 GMT

Titan Quest: Immortal Throne Cheats

In 2006 a newly founded developer, Iron Lore, gave RPG fans a great reason to be happy. They revitalized the RPG gaming style experience of classical titles such as Diablo II, recreating the basic gameplay and still making the game feel as modern as possible. Actually, Iron Lore is not so new to the gaming industry s...

14 March 2007
03:44 GMT


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