http://diablo-iii.com Diablo-III.com - Blizzard's Diablo 3 News Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:37:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lead designer promises fans will love the new classes just as much as the old ones when the game is released though. Fans will "hate" Blizzard when it announces the next Diablo III class, the developer has admitted. The stark admission comes from Diablo III lead designer Jay Wilson, who in an ... http://diablo-iii.com/2008/09/27/next-diablo-3-class-will-make-players-hate-blizzard/ IncGamers' Diablo III network site Diii.net reports that a rumour regarding the release dates of Diablo III and StarCraft II arose on the Battleforums fansite, and has gotten quite some attention around the web. A source of unknown credibility had told them that Blizzard had relocated the majority of the ... http://diablo-iii.com/2008/09/27/debunked-diablo-iii-not-to-be-released-before-starcraft-ii/ Thanks to the heroic video editing efforts of a guy calling himself Sozou, we may have reached the end of the D3 "too colorful" art controversy. The end, one way or the other. Sozou has taken the WWI gameplay movie, and reprocessed the entire dungeon section (the first 12 minutes) ... http://diablo-iii.com/2008/09/27/diablo-3-color-vs-desaturated-movie/ Diablo III takes place two decades after the events of Diablo II, when you (the hero) defeated the three Prime Evils -- Diablo, Mephisto and Baal. An unexpected casualty of your confrontation with Baal included the Archangel Tyrael, who destroyed the corrupted Worldstone and was never seen again. Since then, ... http://diablo-iii.com/2008/09/27/gamedaily-diablo-3-preview/ Boomtown chats one-on-one with Diablo III lead designer Jay Wilson... It's only been a couple of weeks since Blizzard announced Diablo III, so there are still tons of unanswered questions - just the way like Blizzard's veteran PR guys like it. Thus Leipzig was the place where every games journalist wanted to ... http://diablo-iii.com/2008/09/27/gc08-diablo-iii-interview/ When Blizzard announced the first two classes in Diablo III, the Barbarian and the Witch Doctor, at least one fan of the series was taken aback by the class rehash. That would be me, for the purpose of this post. After enduring such a long wait for the third Diablo ... http://diablo-iii.com/2008/09/27/barbarian-will-be-the-only-returning-class-in-diablo-3/ Jay Wilson - portly, laconic, in a black Diablo t-shirt, in a black briefing room, in Activision Blizzard's black business suite at the Games Convention - is in Leipzig to talk about the game he left Relic Entertainment and joined Blizzard to make. At Relic he worked on fan favourite ... http://diablo-iii.com/2008/09/27/eurogamer-interview-diablo-iii/ It wasn't too long ago that Diablo III was not much more than a hushed rumor. But as this year's Blizzard-hosted World Wide Invitational came and went, the latest iteration of the definitive action-RPG came into clear focus. And perhaps unexpectedly, it turns out it's a lot like what the ... http://diablo-iii.com/2008/09/27/gamespy-diablo-iii-interview/ The art direction and selection of character classes weren’t the only topics disputed heavily among the “Diablo III” team. Unlike the previous games, every controllable character in “Diablo III” can be male or female. Sound innocuous? Lead designer Jay Wilson told me the gender option was the result of “quite a ... http://diablo-iii.com/2008/09/27/designer-%e2%80%98diablo-iii%e2%80%99-gender-choice-a-%e2%80%98big-debate%e2%80%99/ One of the new features in the upcoming Diablo 3 release is a change from the traditional potion-guzzling, inventory-clogging system of previous games to a new scheme in which monsters drop health orbs on the ground that refill your health when you touch them. Lead Designer Jay Wilson says the ... http://diablo-iii.com/2008/09/27/diablo-3-developer-explains-health-and-potion-changes/