Blizzard has warned gamers that Diablo III will be down tonight as the major 1.03 patch is being implemented. The maintenance will run from 6:00PM PST (2:00 AM GMT) and will take roughly 10 hours.
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As if Diablo III hasn't caused enough problems over the past few weeks, a new update has prevented a number of players from earning XP.
Blizzard's Bashiok has confirmed the world's first completion of Diablo III on Inferno difficulty with a hardcore character has been achieved. All hail barbarian Kripparrian, and his wizard chum Krippi. Hardcore characters suffer perma-death should they fall in battle, ensuring only the most tenacious of Diablo III players reach these insane heights of l33tness. This is before patch 1.0.3.
Gamers who wanted to try out the free Diablo III Starter Edition won't be able to redeem those codes anytime in the near future, as the free trial has been delayed "until further notice".
It seems that Blizzard needs to vette new Diablo III players before they're able to play the full version. Instead, while they're being verified, they'll be stuck playing the Starter Edition of the game.
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes has grappled gunned its way to the top of the UK all format chart, as FIFA 12 is outperformed by the plastic brick metropolis of Gotham. Civilization V: Gods & Kings for PC entered 16th. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and Max Payne 3 each lost a spot at 3rd and 4th respectively. Blizzard's Diablo III slips down 13th.
Blizzard has addressed some problems in Diablo III with patch 1.0.3a, which sees our items degrade at half the rate they were meaning fewer repair bills to cough up to. It seems those undead bears of the Witch Docter have had enough brains in their diet to stop getting caught on scenery, and can now attack those demonic hordes on slopes!
Diablo III players have been complaining that there's a lack of content in the game, especially in terms of end-game content. The publisher has acknowledged this issue, and promises to resolve the problems.
Blizzard has released the latest update, the 1.03b patch, for Diablo III, which will add the much-desired ability to trade commodities in the auction house. Such items include dyes, crafting materials, plans, designs and training pages.
Blizzard has announced that the developer will be limiting how many games Diablo III players can launch in short succession. This measure is being taken to combat spambots, which have been the bane of players since launch.
Another gamer has passed away obsessively playing a game in a marathon session. This time, an 18-year old Chinese gamer passed away after playing 40 consecutive hours of Diablo III.
The good people of Sanctuary needn't worry about those demonic hordes from hell, as long as there is a Wizard in the mix. A rather powerful exploit has been discovered making Wizard's invulnerable. This of course has huge repercussions as players can effectively 'farm' hardcore modes with ease. So far there has been no comment from Blizzard. This could damage the auction house markets.
A German consumer advocacy group has given a Blizzard an ultimatum regarding Diablo III's always-on DRM protection: repackage the Diablo III boxes to better represent that not only does the game require an internet connection but that the connection must be persistent, or face legal action on the 27th July if the company does not respond.
The house of Blizzard has put together a hotfix to stop Wizards steamrolling over everything with their Godhood exploit. There'll be no more care-free pillaging of hardcore monsters. The team will "continue to carefully monitor" the situation and they ask gamers to squeal like big tattletales about any other "bugs or hacks" doing the rounds. Welcome back glass cannons.
Activision has announed in its quarterly investor call that Diablo III has become the fastest selling PC game of all-time with 10M units sold. The game had sold 6.3M in its first week, with 3.5M in the first day.
As expected, the real-money Auction House in Diablo III has been a windfall for some players, including Reddit user WishboneTheDog, who posted screen grabs of his transaction history and Paypal to prove his moneymaking prowess.
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford is claiming that Borderlands 2 compares favorably to Diablo III, sharing the latter's classes, complexity, loot drops and action.
The time to appreciate your Diablo III heroes is now as Blizzard enable character profiles where players can bog at the gear and stats of their own assortment of demon slayers. It also gives easier tracking for Act progress as well as reveal the (embarrassing?) hours you've clocked up, and of course you can inspect the heroic deeds of your Battle.net chums.
Diablo III is on the march toward patch 1.0.4 and Blizzard will be letting us know how things are going as they prep "several developer blogs filled" with juicy gossip on its feature highlights. The dev blog spotlight falls on system changes, Legendary item improvements, magic find update, class changes and of course the patch notes "shortly before the update goes live."
Blizzard has announced in its developer blog what the newly released 1.04 patch will bring to Diablo III. Chiefly, the patch is intended to lessen the gaps between solo and co-op, single-handed and dual wielding combat, and monster buffing.