The popular role-playing game is headed to consoles after all. Blizzard Entertainment community manager Micah Whiple confirmed via his twitter feed that Diablo III is indeed headed to consoles. However, no specific platforms were mentioned for the console version, or a release date. “Yup,” Whipple said. “Josh Mosqueira is lead designer for the Diablo console [...]
Blizzard Entertainment have announced a brand new expansion pack for World of Warcraft, Mists of Pandaria. The latest expansion will reintroduce the Pandaria and centerpiece the conflict between the Horde and the Alliance. Mists of Pandaria highlights the idea of “war,” with vice president Chris Metzen stating that the Alliance and Horde will go to [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has revealed that its more then “halfway” complete with the development of Diablo III, the third installment into the series. Diablo director Jay Wilson states that the sequel isn’t “feature complete” but, however, it isn’t lacking content-wise. Later in the discussion, Wilson added that “[they're] not really close [to announcing a release date] [...]
Blizzard Entertainment have unveiled the final character class for Diablo III, the Demon Hunter class, a class that captures the essence of its name. The Demon Hunter carries a dual-crossbow and is said to be the successor to the Rogue class from the original. The Demon Hunter class is focused on projectile weapons; including throwing [...]
Blizzard has been relentless towards cheaters, suspending the accounts of thousands of players caught using hack programs or other forms of cheating. Now, the company’s pointing the finger towards the creators of those programs; accusing three parties of “multiple counts of copyright infringement”. The parties — “Permaphrost”, “Cranix” and “Linuxawesome” — stand accused of encouraging [...]
Despite having a hefty launch, there was still one curious omission from the Starcraft II experience, the ability to jump into an in-game chat with friends. However, don’t fret; Blizzard has announced that the chat feature is “something that will be added in a patch” sometime in the near future. “The system will be based [...]
It seems that video game developers and publishers, after a bit of an hiatus, are beginning to “re-open support” to Apple’s operating system, Blizzard reveals that a beta for StarCraft II is in the advance stages of development and that they do plan to release the beta next month on Mac operating systems. A Q&A panel [...]
It’s no secret that Blizzard Entertainment has been working on a new MMO, even teasing at its development via a job listing. However, it wasn’t until BlizzCon that World of Warcraft director, Jeffrey Kaplan confirmed that Blizzard is “definitely involved” in a new MMO. “I think the great part about a new MMO from Blizzard [...]
This news comes straight out of Blizzard’s voice actors panel at BlizzCon. Blizzard has revealed that Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer will be playing Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, in StarCraft II. Along with that, several returning actors will be lending their vocal talents in the game, including Robert Clotworthy and James Harper, reprising their roles [...]