Diablo III

Diablo III Starter Edition Now Free For Everyone

You no longer have to enter a code shared by a friend, purchased from eBay, or stolen from your brother’s Collector’s Edition to gain entrance to the Diablo III Starter Edition, as Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the demo-in-all-but-name version…

Diablo III 1.04 Patch Brings Significant Endgame Changes

Blizzard have updated their blog with an article on Diablo III‘s upcoming 1.04 patch. The update will address several balance issues which Blizzard feel currently hurt the endgame, something they’ve previously admitted is not as well-crafted as they wished it…

Blizzard Admits to Battle.net Hacking

Though fears of Diablo III hackings have generally died down over the last few months, word now comes that Battle.net has been breached by hackers. Though there are no details on how long the security breach went on for, Blizzard…

Diablo III Sales Surpass 10 Million

Despite some critique over the last few months, and Blizzard’s own admitted problems with the endgame, Diablo III has now officially become the massive success for Activision and Blizzard that everyone more or less expected it to be. Activision announced…

Diablo III’s Long-term Planning Failures

For his latest WRPG-focused Joystiq column Rowan Kaiser writes about what he believes are Diablo III’s long-term planning failures, and considering some of the die-hard fans’ opinions I’ve read on the title, I’m not going to be surprised if this…

Diablo III Ending Editorial

Of all the complaints I’ve heard about Blizzard’s action-RPG threequel, having a disappointing ending wasn’t one of them, especially considering how the genre never particularly focused on storytelling. That said, I suppose it is legitimate criticism, and some might be…

Blizzard CEO Writes Open Letter on Diablo III

Now that roughly two months have passed since the release of Diablo III, Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime has taken the time to write an open letter to the community in which he discusses the game’s troubled launch, the…