Official Site: Diablo (Wikipedia)
Studio: Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date: December 31, 1996
Genre: Gothic Fantasy OARPG
Business Model: B2P
Platform: PC, Mac, PS1
See also: Diablo II, Diablo III
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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Freestyle 2, World of Kings, Dragon Raja 2, Ragnarok Masters
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!).
First up:...
Not So Massively: StarCraft II co-op is one of online gaming’s greatest hidden gems
Between the disappointment of the current World of Warcraft expansion, the abandonment of Diablo III, and other... unpleasantness, I find my lifelong fandom of...
Path of Exile’s blast-from-the-past Legion League revamps melee and crushes complexity creep on June 7
It's time once again to learn about the next big update for Grinding Gear Games' popular MMOARPG, which will launch for the PC on June 7th, 2019, and hit both consoles on June 10th. I enjoyed sitting down with Producer Chris Wilson to learn the ins and outs of expansion 3.7.0, titled Legion.
Torchlight Frontiers’ new leveling system is deliciously old school
If you've been away from the Torchlight Frontiers alpha for a while, it might be worth giving this MMOARPG another look this week. Update...
Battle Bards Episode 144: Colors of the rainbow
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet: Combined, these forces create the awesome power of Roy G. Biv — otherwise known as the...
Diablo III adds new Torment levels, introduces season 17 buff in latest patch
The latest update for Diablo III is live on PC and consoles, and it's full of terrible torment and bovine bedlam, among other things....
Diablo III’s Season of Nightmares arrives this week
When's the last time that you were excited about Diablo III? It's been a pretty quiet spring for the ARPG, but Blizzard is about...
Massively Overthinking: Super wrong snap judgments of MMORPGs
The year was 2004, and the month was May. My guild was growing increasingly frustrated with Star Wars Galaxies' slow development pace, so we...
Blizzard decides to skip Gamescom 2019 as part of cost-cutting efforts
The con circuit has always been a sort of expected course for games companies to run, like the Tour de France except with less...
Not So Massively: Yearning for an MMO future free of loot
Throughout all of the Drama over Anthem's loot issues, I've just been rolling my eyes. Not because I think Bioware screwed up -- arguably...
Global Chat: Can you play WoW Classic casually?
Over at Priest with a Cause, MMO blogger Shintar came up with a great question for those looking to play World of Warcraft's upcoming...
Not So Massively: First impressions from Pagan Online’s early access launch
Today, Wargaming's ARPG Pagan Online launches into early access on Steam. Just before this launch, the developers were kind enough to provide us with...
Diablo III’s Season 17 content hits the public test server
Considering the last Diablo III update's round of public testing reportedly went over so well, the devs have continued the trend with Patch 2.6.5,...
Lawful Neutral: The future of MMO game design in a streaming gaming world
It’s been an interesting few weeks for gaming. We saw the announcement of Google’s game streaming service, Stadia, and then Apple’s subscribe-to-access game service,...
Check out this 4K version of the original Diablo II intro cinematic made with AI
We're seeing quite a number of HD remasters in video games and retellings of classic movies, so perhaps it was only a matter of...
Diablo III kicks off testing for patch 2.6.5 on April 5
It's time for a little testing in Diablo III starting on April 5th (that's how you know it's not a joke) when patch 2.6.5 arrives...
Grim Dawn’s Forgotten Gods expansion has launched with new story chapter and Oathkeeper mastery
Crate Entertainment, take yourself a bow: You just rolled out another expansion for ARPG Grim Dawn. No, it's not an MMO, but it's got...
Apple reveals Apple Arcade, yet another subscription service for games
File this one under things you probably didn't ask for: At its conference today, Apple announced Apple Arcade, a multi-platform sub service "that will...
New Blizzard trademark filing rekindles speculation about Diablo TV series
You may remember that last year, there was a brief but passionate firestorm of speculation that Blizzard was gearing up to produce a TV...
Diablo (the first one) is available now on GOG
Want to get your hands on some authentic SVGA 4-player dungeon-crawling? You can get in on that now with Diablo on GOG.com. Not a later...
