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While many besmirch its existence, microtransactions have unfortunately wormed their way into becoming a staple of the video games industry – especially the AAA space. Despite its controversial nature, the added monetisation is clearly not going anywhere, with Diablo IV having reportedly earned Blizzard/Activision/Microsoft over $150 million since the game’s …

For the first time, GeForce Now is getting support for Battle.net titles. This opens the door for many of Blizzard's games to be streamable after years of staying off the cloud. Several Activision titles also joined GeForce Now recently, including Call of Duty. To kick things off, the first wave …

Ahead of the annual Game Developers Conference, Nvidia has announced a lengthy list of games – both old and upcoming – which are set to be further enhanced by its RTX capabilities; with the likes of Diablo IV set to get ray-traced reflections and shadows in just a few short …

The annual Game Developers Conference is kicking off on Monday but Nvidia has a few new RTX related announcements going live ahead of the event. This month, even more games are getting RTX features. Diablo 4 will soon get ray-traced graphics, Star Wars Outlaws has been confirmed for ray-tracing and …

Blizzard has recently announced that three of its classic games, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, Diablo, and Warcraft 2, are now available on Battle.net. This news surprises many fans since these games were not previously accessible on this platform. However, these classic titles have been available on GOG for 3 to …

Blizzard has already confirmed plans for at least two Diablo IV expansions. The base game's campaign already gave us plenty of hints as to where the story will go next but now thanks to the efforts of dataminers, we have some confirmation.  Blizzard recently released a new technical alpha build …

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is set to close any day now and with that, we expect to see many games hitting Xbox Game Pass for the first time. However, in an effort to protect sales of games like Diablo 4 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Activision has …

Despite owning a great deal of well-known IPs, Blizzard has historically kept many of them separate, even in this era of collaborations and crossovers. Finally, two of the company’s biggest games are set to crossover as Overwatch Season 7 is confirmed to include Diablo-inspired content. Teasing the upcoming 7th season …

For the past few years Call of Duty has followed the footsteps of many other live service titles when it comes to crossing over with different franchises, brands and even real-life people. The latest upcoming addition to the ever-growing roster of skins will see characters from DOOM, Diablo, Evil Dead …

Diablo IV has undoubtedly been one of the biggest games of the year, both as a result of its pre-launch hype and post-launch performance. Alongside the announcement of the game’s second Season, Blizzard revealed that in the 2+ months since its release, Diablo IV has surpassed 12 million players. Announced …

Gamescom: Opening Night Live has become a great tradition in recent years. The new stream adds a digital element to the world's biggest gaming convention, delivering new game announcements, trailers and updates. This year's Gamescom: ONL stream was pretty packed, with 39 trailers shown. 

Fans have been eagerly anticipating the upcoming June release of Diablo IV, especially following the open betas hosted by Blizzard – with many fans going through the beta content multiple times with different characters. Those wanting to play with and level up multiple classes will fortunately not need to grind …

Ahead of its official launch on the 6th of June, Blizzard hosted a beta for the much-anticipated Diablo IV. With the open beta now officially concluded, the publisher released a number of impressive stats for the period, revealing that Diablo IV achieved “the largest Beta in Diablo franchise history.”  Taking …

Diablo IV is the next big game set to come from Activision Blizzard, and while the acquisition by Microsoft has yet to go through, fans were beginning to wonder whether the upcoming ARPG would find its way on Xbox’s Game Pass service. Unfortunately – though unsurprisingly – this will not …

Blizzard has had a long-term partnership with NetEase to allow its games to operate in China. Unfortunately, a dispute between the two companies has come to light, and as a result, their licensing deal will be coming to an end and the majority of Blizzard games will be pulled from …

Diablo IV had a pretty good showing at the Xbox and Bethesda showcase a few days ago, but due to Diablo Immortal's recent microtransaction controversies, fans have been worried about Blizzard's monetisation plans for the new game, something that the studio has now responded to. While Blizzard still hasn't really …

We've heard plenty about Diablo Immortal's microtransactions recently and the caps in place to ensure you have to spend money to get high-grade gems for your gear. As it turns out, there are other hidden gameplay caps in place that players are now beginning to discover.  Echohack, a player with …

Four years on from its infamous reveal, Diablo Immortal is officially out on both mobile and PC. Initially, there was a flurry of positivity around the game's launch, but once players began getting more familiar with the store and hitting end-game, major issues became apparent. Want a fully maxed out character? That'll be $100,000 please.

It has been almost four years since Diablo Immortal was first announced to an overwhelmingly negative reaction from both the crowd at BlizzCon that year, as well as online. Blizzard opted not to cancel the game, instead working away on it quietly. Now, the game is finally ready and will …

Amazon Games had a hit on its hands earlier this year with Lost Ark, which swiftly broke records when it launched on Steam worldwide. For now, the game is a PC exclusive, but Lost Ark could follow in the footsteps of other major ARPGs with a console release later on.  …

Minecraft is the best selling game of all time. With over 200 million copies sold, the next best-selling (GTA V) is over 55 million copies behind. With so many copies sold, it may be unsurprising to see a spin-off game perform well. Even so, Minecraft: Dungeon, the Diablo-style dungeon crawler, …

With the effects of COVID-19 nearly all conventions and expos have had to adapt to the circumstances, be it by delaying proceedings, utilising an online format, or simply being outright cancelled. It seems as though Blizzard has opted to go with the latter in the case of its annual fan …

Though film and TV adaptations of video games are certainly nothing new, it seems as though 2020 will see more projects come to light than usual. A Diablo TV show featuring an anime art style, and an Overwatch animated series have both been confirmed to be in development thanks to …

Back in October, former Xbox executive, Mike Ybarra, departed from Microsoft in order to helm a General Manager position at Blizzard. Now, Microsoft is losing another big name, with Gears of War studio head, Rod Fergusson, leaving to work on Diablo IV.  The Coalition is on a high right now, …

At Blizzcon 2019, Blizzard announced the latest entry to the Diablo franchise, Diablo IV. During the conference, on a panel after the announcement of the game, Blizzard announced that Diablo IV won't be playable offline across all versions of the game.  At a panel after the official Diablo IV announcement …

Blizzcon 2018 was shaping up to be pretty solid for Blizzard with announcements for WoW Classic’s launch and Warcraft 3 Remastered lined up. Unfortunately, all of that was quickly overshadowed by the Diablo Immortal announcement. Since then, the folks at Blizzard have been doing some soul searching, with the studio’s …

Update (28.03.19): Earlier this month, GOG announced that it had teamed up with Blizzard to re-release DRM free versions of Diablo 1 as well as Warcraft 1 & 2. Diablo 1 was made available immediately after the announcement but no date was given for the Warcraft games. That changed this …

There has been some hype surrounding Blizzard's Diablo plans this year. Not only is Diablo III coming to the Nintendo Switch, but ‘multiple Diablo' projects are confirmed to be in the works at Blizzard. Unfortunately, it sounds like we are unlikely to get any big news at Blizzcon this year, …

Blizzcon is coming up in a month's time but it looks like two pieces of interesting Diablo-related information have made it out ahead of time. For starters, Blizzard is working on something called ‘Diablo: Reign of Terror' and secondly, cross-platform play is officially in the works for Diablo III. Diablo …

Last year, Netflix began dabbling in video game based animated series with the release of Castlevania- which turned out to be pretty solid, albeit quite short. Now, we can expect another video game series to hit TV screens, with Diablo set to get its own adaptation. Blizzard has been interested …