Diablo

Diablo III – The Darkening of Tristram Event Returns

Last year, in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the original Diablo, Blizzard Entertainment held The Darkening of Tristram tribute event that allowed you to revisit the cozy but deadly hamlet where it all began, explore the dangerous catacombs…

Diablo Series Retrospective

The original Diablo launched on December 31, 1996, and has since celebrated its 20th birthday. The folks at IGN took this occasion as their cue to begin writing a detailed retrospective of the demon-slaying series. It took them a while,…

PC Gamer’s History of RPGs

Richard Cobbett, a well-known pundit when it comes to RPGs, has put together a comprehensive guide to PC RPGs, starting from way back in 1975. With the sheer scope of the RPG genre, some titles get overlooked, but for the…

Diablo III 20th Anniversary Event Impressions

We’ve had the opportunity to once again face off against The Dark Lord this month with Blizzard’s “The Darkening of Tristram” 20th anniversary update to Diablo III, and that’s spurred the team members over at the Big Box PC Game…

Diablo 20-Year Anniversary Retrospective Video

In their official blog, Blizzard Entertainment has reminded people of the upcoming patch 2.4.3 for Diablo III. It is said to include a special anniversary event filled with callbacks and references to the original Diablo that came out 20 years…

20 Years After Diablo, Every Game is Diablo

I’m not sure that I’d fully agree with “every game these days has a little Diablo in it” as suggested by this new editorial on the A.V. Club, as we were playing both stats-heavy and real-time RPGs years before the…

The Diablo Series, Ranked from Worst to Best

Diablo III did not leave a fraction of the imprint on me that the original Diablo and Diablo II did, so I find it difficult to swallow PC Gamer’s ranking of the Diablo titles and their expansions, as the list…