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Diablo

Diablo is an action role-playing dungeon crawler franchise focused on the battle between the humans living on Sanctuary and the Prime Evils who are led by the series' main villain, Diablo.
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Blizzard will show Overwatch 2, Diablo 4 on BlizzCon

Overwatch - Shin-Ryeong D.Va
Blizzard have some great news for their content-hungry community, as both Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 will be making important appearances on next year's BlizzCon, i.e. BlizzConline.

Diablo 4 dev talks about items, skill tree, weapon types

Diablo 4 character against a red backdrop
Blizzard have posted the last quarterly update on Diablo 4, that is last in 2020, where they talked about items, skill tree, weapon types, inscriptions, and more.

Diablo 4 dev posts update on storytelling, open world, multiplayer

Diablo 4's work in progress model
Blizzard have posted a lengthy quarterly update for the highly anticipated next episode in the Diablo franchise, where they honed in on storytelling, open world, multiplayer and more.

Overwatch and Diablo are apparently getting their own shows

Overwatch 2, not here for drinks obviously!
Blizzard fans have been asking for more media that explores the lore of pretty much all the most popular franchises. Overwatch and Diablo are headed that way with new animated shows, according to a Linkedin slip-up or possible teaser.

Mobile was Activision Blizzard's leading revenue platform in 2019

Picture of Activision Blizzard banners at a convention
Activision Blizzard posted the financial results for 2019 and while they've had quite a few standout performers like World of Warcraft Classic, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Overwatch, the success of CoD: Mobile finally tipped the revenue scales away from consoles.

BlizzCon 2019 schedule revealed

Blizzcon Logo
Blizzard revealed the schedule for BlizzCon 2019, complete with sections for various games and esports, as well as a panel with voice actors, which is something the company skimmed on with the cancelled Overwatch launch event for Switch.

Diablo 4 itemisation explained in more detail by Blizzard

Diablo IV logo against a black background
Blizzard's announcement and the brief demo of Diablo 4 have still left plenty of questions about the dev's highly anticipated title, so they set out to answer them in a series of blog posts. The latest one is about Diablo 4's itemisation.

Diablo 2 remaster would require building it from scratch, devs say

A shack and a tree against a horizon in Diablo IV
We've had two main rumours circulating prior to this year's BlizzCon and as Diablo IV got its announcement, the one about Diablo 2 remaster remained a rumour. Now however, the original game's devs pretty much shot those hopes down for good.

Diablo 4 beta, classes and release window revealed in latest leak

According to the latest rumours, Blizzard will host Diablo 4 beta sometime in 2020 while the release date is set for late 2020 or early 2021.

Blizzard announce Diablo IV at BlizzCon but it will take a while

Diablo IV logo against a black background
Blizzard made sure they're firing on all cylinders come BlizzCon and fire they did, as the company announced Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV, but they preempted any enquiries for the launch date by saying it will not launch anytime soon.