There is a part of my head, some reptilian section of my brain, that just loves watching numbers go up. It finds joy in methodically kiting and whittling down enemies, clearing the area of loot, and moving on to the next; like a farming sim...

Diablo II's resurrection is close at hand, or at least, an alpha of it is. Blizzard is hosting a single-player-only technical alpha for Diablo II: Resurrected on PC this weekend. A limited number of players who opted into the technical alph...

Doom Eternal is half price ($29.99) on the Nintendo Switch eShop, and that's a solid deal. Panic Button's well-liked Switch port of Doom Eternal only released digitally, and it's still relatively recent compared to the older PC and other co...

When I got the chance to sit in with a few of the producers of Diablo II Resurrected, one of the first things that was asked was how the team was going to avoid the sins of Warcraft III Reforged. Much like the original Warcraft III, Diablo ...

Blizzard really only has one chance to make a good first impression with Diablo II Resurrected. I mean, there are millions of Warcraft III fans out there who were ready to sift through Reforged like a fine toothed comb. But hell h...

Blizzard's biggest reveal today? Probably Diablo II Resurrected. Yes, it's getting a remaster, folks. But naturally, given how the state in which Warcraft III Reforged released, people are going to have questions. We sat down with...

Blizzard cannot escape its past. Look, they've made some really great games as of late. World of Warcraft waxes and wanes, naturally, but some modern expansions have made incredible advancements. Diablo III also sold incredibly we...

It took a while, but we made it. We made it to the Diablo section of BlizzConline 2021. What's new with Diablo IV? A class – the Rogue. That was Blizzard's big reveal, at least for the opening ceremony. Game director Luis Barriga sai...

The cat might be out of the bag with multiple leaked announcements, including Burning Crusade Classic, but there are still surprises in store for BlizzConline 2021, the streaming-only stand-in for BlizzCon. The two-day digital event starts...

[Update: Blizzard has posted the full BlizzConline schedule for February 19–20. The opening ceremony will be just over an hour long, and most of the notable talks will be held on the first day of the show. "Behind the Scenes of Over...

Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV are looming on the horizon, but 2021 is shaping up to be a quiet year for Blizzard, at least as far as those big-name sequels go. Speaking to investors today in an earnings call, Activision confirmed that neither s...

Before the weekend, the industry heard the surprising news that Vicarious Visions, the developer behind the recent Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 and Crash Bandicoot remakes, had become an official support studio for World of Warcraft titan B...

Starting this week, Blizzard is running a "limited technical alpha" for Diablo Immortal. Yes, the "do you guys not have phones" game. We got in. It's not bad. Don't @ me.

Oh yeah, Diablo IV! I don't know what I occasionally forget this one exists, though it's probably because I'm so used to there not being a Diablo game in active development. There was a 12-year gap between Diablo II and III, and n...

After scrapping its plans for an in-person event this year due to COVID-19-related "health and safety considerations," Blizzard hopes to "channel the spirit of BlizzCon into the form of an online show." As we now know, the replacement event...

It hadn't struck me until just now that Diablo Immortal – that not-quite-right, built-for-mobile take on Diablo that we first heard about in 2018 – is still unreleased. I figured it had already slipped by. The latest footage co...

It may not be the gift you were hoping for, but you know what they say: Never look a gift Beelzebub in the mouth. Today is the 20th anniversary of Diablo II, one of the most influential and beloved PC games of all time. It seems like a good...

Blizzard is taking a slow and steady approach to talking about Diablo IV, and the longer this potentially-years-away game simmers, the better it sounds to me. The development team's quarterly update for June 2020 covers a big internal playt...

Diablo 2 is an absolute classic. I still play it to this day with folks, whether it's a modded edition or the original. It's just that good, and provided the blueprint for so many dungeon crawlers after it: many of which never man...

Purists wouldn't be caught dead making use of Diablo IV's flexible new control scheme. Anyone's who has ever actually been caught dead because of an accidental attack when they meant to reposition might welcome it with open arms. Blizzard p...

Activision has released Blizzard's financial data, and it kind of hints at what's to come for the company in addition to shedding some light on how their 2019 went. The big win? World of Warcraft Classic is a hit, and according to Acti...

Longtime Gears leader Rod Fergusson is stepping away from the franchise he helped build. In a move announced on Twitter, Fergusson is headed to southern California to take up the mantle as the head on Diablo. 

Diablo IV helped BlizzCon 2019 kick off right, washing off the blowback of Diablo Immortal in 2019. The classic Diablo style is back, and it looks like this is going to be a substantial game with some open-ended gameplay. But it's still a w...

Diablo is back in full swing at BlizzCon 2019 with the reveal of Diablo IV. Going along with its "return to the series' dark roots," Blizzard opened up a fully fledged museum on the show floor, and man does it look crazy. Dubbed the "d...

After the kerfuffle it caused last year, most fans were pretty sure Blizzard wouldn't utter a peep about Diablo Immortal during the opening ceremonies of this year's BlizzCon. They were right. Rather than relive the drama it caused in ...