Someone with username Azimuthus posted in Reddit an image of what he claims is spotting the Diablo 4 downloader in the Blizzard Launcher. The download isn’t possible with a decryption key — which means this build is only accessible by Blizzard employees — most likely only the Diablo 4 team.
If this truly happened, it was very likely a mistake by someone at Blizzard who flagged it for public view, accidentally.
Blizzard Entertainment published today the Diablo 4 Quarterly Update with some juicy details. Something to note is that the images are tagged as Pre-Alpha.
So we can assume the game is played only by the Diablo 4 team at this point. Not company-wide, yet. Still the UI looks pretty good this early.
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Blizzard Entertainment has definitely changed the way audiobooks are presented in Amazon. They no longer open pre-orders that launch months later, up to a year. They drop them overnight into the store.
The Diablo: The Sin War, Scales of the Serpent Audiobook is available for sale and you can listen to it whole right away.
Originally, this novel by Richard A. Knaak was released before Diablo III’s announcement. Most of the themes and concepts in the game are based on the novel trilogy — such as the origin of the nephalem.
Amazon Games announced a publishing agreement with Korean-based studios: Smilegate. The press release doesn’t mention Lost Ark in specific, but with the RPG game coming to Beta in Russia and Japan this year, it won’t be surprising to want to expand into the west.
A few days ago, Rod Fergusson (Diablo Franchise Development vice-president/executive producer) tweeted a job opening for a Business Performance Senior Director. A very interesting position for a game dubbed “Not Blizzard Soon™” at BlizzCon. (Thanks, Corey)
Vice-president and Executive Producer of the Diablo Franchise Rod Fergusson is scheduled to talk at the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2020).
This will happen days after the ChinaJoy and ATVI Q2 2020 events. If you are a GDC attendee ask him about Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal.
Geoff Keighley had the opportunity to test the PS5 DualSense Controller during the Summer Game Fest 2020 stream.
When: July 17 at 12pm ET/ 9am PT
According to Geoff, the PS5 DualSense controller feels slightly heavier, and heftier than the PS4 DualShock controller.
You can listen to sounds from within the DualSense controller. At one point during the gameplay, Geoff blew air from his mouth into the controller to trigger an action in the game. What the hell?
It can detect different levels of input/pressure from your own breath?
When Geoff navigated through a sandstorm area, he could feel the environment’s tension through the controller, and sand noise through its speakers. You can listen to footsteps too.
With the adaptive triggers, you can move the controller sideways and the character you control in-game moves likewise.
The game will come with all PS5 consoles, free. It is the same demo given to game developers a few weeks ago to demonstrate the capabilities of the PS5 to given them an idea what they can do themselves with all the DualSense features.
Rich Bantegui announced in his Twitter account that he joined Blizzard Entertainment as new Diablo Community Manager.
Rich has 10 years of experience in the gaming industry holding various positions:
Blizzard Entertainment posted today the Diablo 4 Quarterly Update. They have more or less completed a team playtest of the Dry Steppes zone internally, from home. The best highlight is the mention of a PvP subzone.
This is a very comprehensive update covering several aspects of the game:
The press newsletter fleshes it out much better:
While there are no plans to announce Alpha or Beta testing, it is absolutely incredible to have this amount of transparency from the Diablo 4 team discussing pre-Alpha playtest and current development so early.
Better yet, wanting feedback as they move from milestone to milestone. This tops the Heroes of the Storm early development transparency and feedback harvesting of years ago. Me like that.
The Diablo 4 Quarterly Update #4 is quickly approaching — any time within the next 11 days.
Back on May 9, a fan asked when to expect the next quarterly update. The Diablo Twitter responded: by the end of June.
