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Hands On With Diablo III’s Monk
5:20AM Mike Fahey | Though the Diablo III kiosks in the BlizzCon pressroom were swamped all weekend, I did manage to squeeze in a little time with the game’s newest class: the Monk. More »
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BlizzCon 2009: The Show So Far
7:20AM Mike Fahey | With BlizzCon 2009 day two in full swing, let’s take a look at what went on during day one, from start to Cataclysmic finish. More »
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Details On The Monk: Diablo III’s Newly Revealed Street Fighter
7:40AM Mike Fahey | The creators of Diablo III give us the lowdown on the newest character class for the game, the Monk—the street fighter character of the Diablo universe. More »
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ActiBlizz Confirms Tony Hawk, Bond For 2010, Dances Around Diablo
7:40AM Stephen Totilo | Activision Blizzard execs listed a bunch of new games for 2010 during a conference call today but declined to be anything other than cagey on the topic of Diablo III. More »
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Blizzard’s April Fool’s Day Spectacular
4:00AM Mike Fahey | Blizzard pulls no punches this April 1st, with not one but four different pranks featuring pimped mounts, a new Diablo III class, the biggest StarCraft 2 unit ever created, and PVP dance battles.
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Original Diablo Producer Thinks Diablo III Isn’t Diablo Enough
6:20AM Mike Fahey | Someone fetch original Diablo producer Bill Roper a rainbow unicorn t-shirt, as the former VP of Blizzard North explains that Diablo III just doesn’t feel like a Diablo game. More »
New Diablo III Screenshots Showcase Supersized Foe
1:20AM Mike Fahey | Blizzard has updated the official Diablo III website with a set of four bits of artwork and five new screens, one featuring an opponent that could even the bravest player pee a little. More »Art Apocalypse: Blizzard’s Wilson Talks Diablo III Design Decisions
9:20AM Leigh Alexander | When I met Jay Wilson today, Blizzard’s lead designer on Diablo III, I opened our conversation with two loaded little words: Art direction. I didn’t need to say any more, of course, because Wilson already knew about the fan-fit I was referring to. “It’s a complex issue”, he said. “It’s been a big issue online, but for the most part, the response we’ve gotten has been very positive. We’ve got petitions, a few people on forums [who are] very loud, but it’s really more of the ’squeaky wheel’ syndrome”. “Certainly, internally there’s no doubt. I would tell people who don’t like the art style that probably, getting the art style was the hardest thing”. But there’s a careful method to all of it, Wilson explained: Wilson said that what we see now is the third iteration on the Diablo III design. As with many of the decisions the developer makes, much of the art design issue was based in gameplay principles. “Diablo is a game you play for, hopefully, hundreds of hours, and one of the rewards is a variety of different-looking environments”. People looking back on old Diablo, he said, may have a selective memory. “People remember the Act I dungeons… but they kind of conveniently forget the green fields of Act I, and all of Act II… and it’s palaces, its bright deserts”.
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Nope, No Diablo 3 Announcement Coming, Sorry
5:30PM Luke Plunkett | The last few days have been good sport for anyone who enjoys watching the internet conjure rumours out of sheer fantasy. Take the one concerning Diablo 3, for example. The teaser for next month’s PC Gamer contained the line “so huge we had to go to [CENSORED] to get it,” and from that nondescript sliver, we somehow got a ton of people convinced Diablo 3 is coming. And hey, it might be, sometime in the future, but not now, with PC Gamer telling Shacknews “we’re officially squelching the Diablo rumour. We’ve got two big announcements coming in our August issue, but neither is from Blizzard”. Case closed. Return to your Diablo fan forums and remain there until further notice. PC Gamer Squelches Diablo 3 Rumour [Shacknews] More »
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