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Sunday Comics: Dead Island This old Diablo II commercial, from around the time of the game’s launch in June 2000, is notable for two things. The first is that it’s a rare example of official live-action Diablo.
On the eve of the release of Diablo III, I’ve been hearing chatter about the great Diablo series from office colleagues who I didn’t even realise were fans. It turns out, for example, that Greg from finance not only loves Diablo, but he used scam people in it. Today, the man who pays me is reformed (thank goodness!) and wants to warn you about the kind of shady dealings that occur in games like these.
College is all about getting exposure to new ideas and experiences. For me, after I made friends with a couple of PC gamers my sophomore year, those experiences began to include countless new games. We routinely played Worms Armageddon or Heroes of Might and Magic III (hot-seat mode on both) until dawn and then kept going through the next day until somebody finally won.
Ten years ago today, Blizzard unleashed a second helping of hell on PC gamers. A decade later we’re still waiting on a sequel. Let’s celebrate ten years of Diablo II, while poking Blizzard to hurry up with the third game.
Say what you want about Blizzard’s ability to get Diablo III out the door in a timely fashion. But you can’t knock the developer for its support of older games, especially in light of Diablo II’s new patch.
Online game developer Nitrogen has just announced L.A.W., a post-apocalyptic multiplayer online game for adults designed by the lead artist for Diablo II and a “well-known movie director from the Star Wars”.
Before Blizzard puts the final touches on Diablo III, which we expect within the next decade or so, it’s patching up Diablo II. And Blizzard wants to know what you want to see addressed.
Microsoft isn’t the only one swinging the account crushing banhammer just before the holiday rush. Blizzard has suspended an impressive 350,000 Battle.net accounts identified as using “third-party hacks” in both StarCraft and Diablo II. According to folks at Blizzard, this is on top of an additional 7,700 Warcraft III accounts getting the same treatment. We won’t miss you, you cheating sons of bitches — no postcards necessary. The full warning statement and explanation for banning follows.
Like me, many of you folks drooled over the mere idea of the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational exclusive Archangel Tyrael pet for World of Warcraft. Now we get to see the little guy who’ll have players /telling the lucky recipients with “Were’d u get tht?” from now until the end of time. Blizzard just updated the WoW build on the public test realms, and the nice folks at MMO Champion rooted around in there until they came up with these images of the in-game model for the Diablo II (and presumably III) star.
I want one. Strike that, I need one. My soul cries out for it, but not so badly that I am willing to spend more than of $US 600 to snag one off of eBay. I’ll just use the old model-swapping technique. Sure, no one else will see him and he’ll make panda noises, but the screenshots will be fantastic.
Tyrael Mini Pet, Blizz Auth, Blue posts [MMO Champion - Thanks Jim!]
