It’s been almost 12 years since the release of Diablo 2. During this time, a lot of things can change. New challengers had entered the ring and tried to reclaim D2’s throne. None of them succeeded. Players have been waiting patiently for the next part of this legendary series and although Diablo 3 was revealed a couple of years ago, its development had started in 2001. This means that it’s been in development for eleven whole years. And frankly, during its development we’ve seen lots of changes. From a gritty, dark and gothic hack ‘n slash fest, Diablo 3 became a cartoon-ish and easier to the eyes’ action RPG. I seriously don’t know if Blizzard was influenced by Torchlight or WoW, however, D3 looked more serious and adult back then. Continue reading Diablo 3 PC Preview→
I’m pretty sure that a lot of you were disappointed with Diablo III’s new, ‘cartoonish’ art direction. Thankfully, there is an FXAA Injector Mod for it and you can see below the difference between the modded and the vanilla version. The FXAA mod works as a direct3d post processing filter, making the game look sharper, have less saturation, add a slight bit of a (silver) sepia tone, slightly lowered exposure, slightly raised gamma. On the left of each shot we have the modded version and on the right the vanilla. Those interested can download the FXAA mod from here. Enjoy! Continue reading Diablo III – FXAA Injector Modded vs Vanilla Version→
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that it has conducted a review of its business based on current organizational needs. Following a completion of the review, the company is conducting a global reduction in workforce of approximately 600 employees. The company anticipates approximately 90% of the affected employees will come from departments not related to game development. The World of Warcraft development team will not be impacted. Continue reading Blizzard cuts 600 jobs; WoW development won’t be impacted→
All hell has broken loose when Blizzard’s community manager, Bashiok, said that gamers should lower their expectations for Diablo III. This sounded awkward, right? I mean a community manager telling gamers to lower their expectations for a triple-A game that will most probably sell like hot-cakes? Something didn’t seem right. And according to Blizzard’s Jay Wilson, Bashiok was being sarcastic. Now obviously, there are two sides of this story: either Bashiok was indeed trolling everyone and the media mistook his comment or he was dead serious and Jay Wilson is trying to damage control this whole mess. Continue reading Blizzard wants you to have high expectations from D3 after all; incoming release date announcement→
All hell has broken loose when Blizzard’s community manager, Bashiok, tweeted that Diablo 3 would not support chat channels. We can’t see anything wrong with that – as PC gamers can use Teamspeak and other similar programs – but it seems that a lot of you got annoyed by that. And naturally, a lot of Diablo fans started complaining and thought that Blizzard have turned their back on them. Well, good news everyone as Bashiok was wrong and public chat channels WILL be available in Diablo 3. In fact, they’ll be in an upcoming beta patch so PC gamers will get to see and play around with them really soon. Continue reading Hooray. Diablo 3 WILL have public chat channels; coming soon to the beta via a patch→
You know what? Color-blind gamers have the right to enjoy each and every game. Most of them can’t distinguish the difference between green and red hues but that doesn’t mean that they are bad players or that they are not as hardcore as most of you. And thankfully, Blizzard’s upcoming action RPG game will be quite friendly to all color-blind gamers, as the game is built with those gamers in mind. Continue reading Diablo III will be ‘color-blind’ friendly; game is built with that in mind→
Blizzard has revealed the notes of the upcoming 4.3.2 patch for their acclaimed MMO game, World of Warcraft Cataclysm. This minor patch includes several updates that we were unable to apply via hotfixes, including the recently announced cross-realm raids, assorted class balance fixes, and more. This new patch is now available for testing on the Public Test Realms. Those interested in helping Blizzard can start by copying their characters over to a test realm. Continue reading World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Patch 4.3.2 Notes Revealed→
You’ve probably heard the rumors that Diablo III was coming to consoles and that it was confirmed by Blizzard’s community manager, right? Well, guess again as it appears that some people mistook Bashiok’s response to a fan that asked him whether Diablo 3 was coming to consoles or not. That’s at least according to Bashiok himself, who tweeted that his positive response wasn’t meant to be an announcement. Continue reading Diablo III is NOT coming to consoles anytime soon→
You’ve most probably heard that Diablo III could hit the stores in early February, right? Well, those were just rumors and speculations and nothing more. According to Blizzard’s Community Manager, Bashiok, Diablo III does not have any release date as of yet. More importantly though is that Bashiok tweeted that all the stores that have a specific release date are guessing at best. Continue reading Blizzard’s Bashiok puts all Diablo III’s release date rumors to rest→
