Multiplayer games don't always have to be competitive. Sometimes taking on challenges alongside a friend or more can provide as much, or even more, fun and entertainment as a competitive multiplayer game. While co-op titles rarely match the overall popularity of their competitive counterparts, the category still counts a number of masterpieces in its ranks.
With Europe's biggest games convention, Gamescom, taking place in Cologne, Germany next week, the event organizers have finally let loose the schedule for this year's shenanigans. It's panels galore for the most part, but it seems to confirm one major thing - Blizzard won't be staging a big press conference this year. But there's still a big-name (non-Blizzard) developer hosting a panel
Moving forward with plans issued a long while ago now, Blizzard have re-confirmed that legacy operating system support for more modern titles like StarCraft II, Diablo III and World of Warcraft will cease in the coming months.
After a beta release back in April, the Necromancer class will go live on Diablo III after next week's regular maintenance on June 27.
Heading into South Korea early this year, Blizzard announced StarCraft Remastered - a spuced up, HD version of the original strategy classic that retains its aesthetic while making it more appealing for newer hardware.
With Patch 2.5.0 and the Diablo Anniversary event coming within a few weeks of each other, it's easy to forget that a new class would be coming to Diablo III in the new year.
Whether your Warcraft days are behind you, the days of the WoW Token are not. That shiny coin Blizzard added as a way for rich characters to pay for subscriptions isn't going anywhere. In actuality, it just got a whole lot more versatile.
We spent most of 2016 clinging to the hope that one of the year's rumors would turn out to be true - a potential remake of a classic Diablo game. And while it proved to not quite be the case in the end, we were to get something almost as good; an anniversary event that would bring a chunk of Diablo history to Diablo III.
With Blizzard's annual celebration of their history playing out over the weekend at Blizzcon, we finally got some answers to those crazy Diablo related rumors that had been floating around various media outlets for months.
Hearken back to just a few days ago. A day when Blizzard rumors were as rife as ever, and people had started to put two and two together after spotting Diablo II lead, David Brevik, back on the California campus amidst a slew of other Diablo related hints. Well, it turns out it had nothing to do with what we'd hoped. At least not for now.
It took more than 10 years for us to see a real successor to Diablo II, and even though Diablo III has been around for a little while now, even with the expansion taken into mind, it seems far too early to expect a full-blown sequel.
EGX usually doesn't bring the biggest of reveals, but it did bring Super Dungeon Bros! Announced this weekend, the casual hack n' slash sees a group of reckless adventurers lounge around and occasionally delve deep into some surprisingly colorful caves filled with all sorts of ghouls and skeletal abnormalities. In a collaboration between Wired Productions and publisher THQNordic, Super Dungeon Bros releases in just over a months time on November 1st for both PC and a current gen consoles. The havoc wrecking miniature warriors bring their own unique charm across expansive, destructive co-op romps around the dungeons.
It may seem hard to believe now, but back in the mid-90's, the roleplaying game was dead in the West. Every publisher was pumping out new first person shooters and real-time strategy games, while few if any major roleplaying games were being released. This led to the rise of the JRPG, as console gamers were getting franchises such as Final Fantasy and Phantasy Star, and even ports of the classic PC game Ultima. But for PC gamers, the cupboard was bare in terms of roleplaying games.
For those of you still playing Diablo II, Blizzard has announced a new 1.14a patch for the venerable roguelike action-RPG from 2000 that updates the game to run better on modern machines. This patch is the first official update for the game since 2011's 1.13d patch.
Longtime Diablo fansite DiabloII.net spotted some interesting job listings posted on Blizzard's careers page for an "Unannounced Project" involving Diablo. The studio seeks a lighting artist, a senior character artist and a senior concept artist who have a "passion for all things Diablo."
Bombshell launched late last week for the PC, with various publications proclaiming it a major dud, including our very own Dustin Bailey, who gave it a 4.5/10 saying “Bombshell isn’t the worst game I’ve ever played, but it’s among the most dull and uninteresting.” It didn't fare much better with Steam's user reviews, but at least it's a little bit more mixed than the average score of 41 on Metacritic. 3D Realms are working hard to resolve some of the complaints that have been thrown against Bombshell, and are looking through comments and reviews to gather information to hopefully improve the game before it's too late. A statement from 3D Realms CEO, Frederik Schreiber, goes over some of the expectations from the early preview builds, with many comparing it to “Diablo” and other great ARPG's.
Blizzard has revealed two more characters for their MOBA Heroes of the Storm. Both heroes are from the Diablo series, including Li Ming the Wizard from Diablo 3 and Xul the Necromancer from Diablo 2.
Blizzard has announced on Battle.net that the gigantic 2.4 patch for Diablo III, which had been in beta for several months, is finally live and available for download. The new patch is, in Blizzard's words, "crammed full of new features, items, and plenty of quality of life and balance changes."
Diablo III is beta-testing its massive 2.4 patch, which was detailed ten days ago, and some of the testers found a little shout-out to the Fallout series, apropos as Fallout 4 was just released to PC and consoles.
Blizzard has posted a new update in the Battle.net Blog detailing the upcoming 2.4 patch that will be send to test servers soon. The patch will chiefly add new Adventure Mode content as well as a new gameplay challenge called "Set Dungeons".