GDC 2013: Diablo III, Dear Esther and Lili talks confirmed
A Diablo III design postmortem, a case study on apocalyptic games from Dear Esther’s creator and a session on mid-core mobile games from BitMonster are the latest tracks to be added to GDC 2013....
View ArticleFirst Diablo III PlayStation screens surface
Blizzard has released the first screens of the PlayStation version of Diablo III on Battle.net. The game will be released on both PlayStation 3 and 4, and will be based on the existing PC game –...
View ArticleHearthStone: Heroes Of Warcraft is Blizzard’s first free to play game
Blizzard has unveiled HearthStone: Heroes Of Warcraft at PAX East, the developer’s first free to play title. The game is set in the World Of Warcraft universe and has been created at Blizzard by a new...
View ArticleGDC 2013: Diablo III’s mistakes, mishapes and misfits
The Diablo III development team made mistakes with the auction house, item design and combat diversity, according to the game’s former creative director, Jay Wilson. Speaking at GDC 2013 Wilson did,...
View ArticleBlizzard buys rights to the IGN Pro League
Blizzard has purchased the rights, assets, and technology behind the IGN Pro League, boosting its existing eSports team for further coverage of Blizzard games. After the sudden cancellation of the IPL...
View ArticleThe Making Of: Diablo
The world of game development is littered with sour tragedies: great ideas that went awry due to mismanagement, ideas that were never that great in the first place getting painfully – publicly –...
View ArticleDiablo 3 patch 1.0.8 introduces gold duplicating bug, Blizzard pulls down...
Yesterday, Blizzard released patch 1.0.8 for Diablo 3. The update increased the maximum stack size of player-sold gold from 1 million to 10 million. Unfortunately, it also introduced a bug that...
View Article[UPDATE] Diablo 3 Auction Houses to return sometime today
[UPDATE] Blizzard has released another statement, predicting that the downtime will continue for at least another 24 hours. “As we mentioned earlier, we’re currently auditing transactions that were...
View ArticleBlizzard celebrating Diablo 3′s birthday with bonus experience, magic find
Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of Diablo 3′s servers going live, and Blizzard is celebrating by giving players both bonus experience and bonus magic find for all players. Available until...
View ArticleHearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft - Blizzard tips its hand on its first...
On the face of it, Blizzard has been slow to adapt to the rise of mobile and free-to-play, just like parent company Activision. Fellow industry leaders EA and Ubisoft moved quickly to embrace emerging...
View ArticleCan Diablo III survive the transition to consoles?
Some games are defined by their control schemes. Diablo belongs under the control of a mouse, just as Street Fighter is at home on an arcade stick and Angry Birds is best suited to a touchscreen. When...
View ArticleDiablo III release date confirmed for 360 and PS3
Diablo III is coming to Xbox 360 and PS3 on September 3, Blizzard has confirmed. It has been ported with “gamepad-driven action” in mind, says Blizzard, with a dynamic camera and a new user interface....
View ArticleDiablo III review
Diablo III on PC was hellfire that burnt bright and brief. Players leapt into its dark, trashy fantasy world and were entranced by its whirligig spell effects, its popping, projectile-vomiting demons,...
View ArticleHow Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft borrows from the book of Peggle
Blizzard has always been a purveyor of finely detailed, artisanal videogames. The dance animation of a World of Warcraft character, the vocal affirmation of a StarCraft unit, the shower of gold...
View ArticleHearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft is a mashup of cataclysmic proportions
Your card collection is stored in this foxed tome, which is split into tabs by hero. It’s also searchable by keyword and card name, making deck building a matter of but a few minutes. Twelve million....
View ArticleWorld Of Warcraft: Warlords Of Draenor rolls back the clock to try and...
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment Developer: In-house Format: PC Origin: US Release: TBA With Mists Of Pandaria, Blizzard expanded World Of Warcraft to the point where it encompassed every continent...
View ArticleIn Blizzard’s MOBA rework Heroes Of The Storm, you’re only as good as your team
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment Developer: In-house Format: PC Origin US Release: TBA Hesitation isn’t something we tend to associate with Blizzard. The creator of Warcraft is known for slow but...
View ArticleStill Playing: Diablo III – why ditching the Auction House has revitalised...
Blizzard has recently released a major update to Diablo III – here longterm looter Alex Wiltshire assess the changes. Do you remember when people used to excitedly compare eBay to a game? The way you’d...
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