Diablo II

Battle.net to Feature Facebook Integration

Blizzard Entertainment kicked out a press release today announcing plans to bring Facebook integration to their popular Battle.net multiplayer service, starting with StarCraft II in July.  It’ll be interesting to see how this jives with Diablo III and World of…

A Tour Through Blizzard’s Headquarters

We’ve pointed out other tours of Blizzard’s Irvine campus in the past, but since it houses dream-like working facilities for any PC gamer, I’ll go ahead and point out this latest picture-heavy article on Ars Technica. This is not an…

Blizzard Entertainment Concept Art Gallery Launched

Blizzard Entertainment’s official website is now sporting a concept art gallery that contains a plethora of artwork that they’ve created for their Diablo, World of Warcraft, and StarCraft franchises. Most of the initial pieces are straight from the games’ official…

Bill Roper Interviews

Fresh off his promotion to chief creative officer of Cryptic Studios, long-time video game producer Bill Roper has taken the time to answer a variety of different questions about his time in the industry for both Ten Ton Hammer and…

How CRPGs Warped My Brain, Part Four

Tales of the Rampant Coyote’s Jay Barnson once again summarizes what he’s learned from several CRPGs, though this time most of the games he profiles are somewhat recent. Fallout, Fallout 2, Baldur’s Gate II, Vampire: Redemption, Vampire: Bloodlines, Wizardry 8,…

320,000 Cheaters Banned From Battle.net

Apparently a lot of people have forgotten that there are consequences to hacking your way to victory in Diablo II and Warcraft III, as over 300,000 such cheaters have been targetted with Blizzard’s Wand of Banning. We’ve recently banned over…

Battle.net 2.0 Preview

After spending some time with the StarCraft II beta, the editors at Ten Ton Hammer have put together a short preview of the enhancements and changes headed our way in revision 2.0 of Blizzard’s popular multiplayer service, Battle.net. The Diablo…

Blizzard Entertainment: April Fools’ 2010

Blizzard Entertainment continues their usual April Fools’ tradition by announcing Diablo III Body Pillows, the Deckard Cain X-Treme Gamer Blanket, the Deckard Cain GPS Voice Pack, a Battle.net neural interface, equipment potency equivalance numbers for World of Warcraft, and Blackthorne…

BlizzCon 2010 Announced

Blizzard Entertainment sent out a press release today announcing plans to host a fifth BlizzCon event at the Anaheim Convention Center this October.  Panel discussions, tournaments, hands-on gaming sessions, and most likely an announcement or two for those of you who plan…

Diablo II v1.13 Patch Goes Live

The v1.13 patch for Diablo II is no longer just for public test realm players, as Blizzard Entertainment rolled the ambitious update out to all clients this afternoon. The patch is now technically at revision v1.13c, and here are the…