Diablo III – Community Against Botting Open Letter
http://d3cab.org/ Going to be brutally frank on a couple of things. First, I have no idea who many of the signatories are. Secondly, I don't agree with the self-important ego-filled…
StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void (First Campaign Preview)
Hype leading up to the launch in several weeks. Looks pretty good for the initial tutorial (given that LotV will be standalone and thus could have players who have never…
Blizzcon 2015 schedule posted
http://us.battle.net/blizzcon/en/blog/19913840/blizzcon®-2015-map-and-schedule-10-13-2015 Looks like the Overwatch area will be like last year with a playable demo (probably more complete since the game will go into closed beta around this time). The…
Diablo III – the sky is falling
Blizzard had inadvertently posted the schedule for this years Blizzcon on their EU site; several web sites including MMO-Champion reported the schedule on Friday. The following is an actual snapshot…
Diablo III Reddit regarding purchasable cosmetics
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19889980/patch-230-developer-qa-transcript-9-8-2015 I didn't even realize this Q&A had occurred (I rarely look at the main D3 page on the Battle.net site). Nothing really new anyway except the same bullcrap. The…
Diablo III – Account Actions taking place
Currently, accounts are being actioned for "exploitation of game mechanics". This is related to the Hellfire Amulet exploit which allowed players who utilized zero durability ones to equip all of…
Diablo III – Solo versus Multi-player
Blizzard's official forums have been filled recently with multiple threads regarding the disparity between solo and co-op play. What many of these folks don't seem to realize is that this…
An oral history of Diablo II
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/in-their-own-words-an-oral-history-of-diablo-ii-with-david-brevik-max-schaefer-and-erich-schaefer Well worth reading; many insights from the primary principals of the former Blizzard North studio. There were a lot more details that was originally hearsay where there were several…