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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The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2018
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The best Massively OP community Daily Grinds of 2018
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Star Wars Galaxies emulator plans Carrie Fisher tribute event on December 27
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Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2018
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Blizzard rolls out Diablo III season, Hearthstone balance update, and WoW hotfixes as WoW players game for charity
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Wargaming’s new OARPG Pagan Online launches next year
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Blizzard scales back Heroes of the Storm development cadence, esports, and dev team
If you wondered how Blizzard MOBA Heroes of the Storm was performing, today's announcement should serve as a pretty good clue it's not going...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2018
It's become a tradition on Massively OP to include among our end-of-the-year roundups and editorials and retrospectives a run-down of our favorite - and least favorite - MMO dev quotes of the year, be they obscure, poignant, or just plain dumb. So once again, for this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked our staff to offer up those quotes and then reflect on what we from the year and reflect on just what we've learned from them.
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2018
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The Daily Grind: Do you think seasonal play in online games is worth the absurdity?
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Blizzard sources dish on Warcraft Go, Diablo IV, Diablo Immortal, China, and Activision’s culture shift
Kotaku has a wild article up today ahead of the holiday with input from nearly a dozen anonymous current and former Blizzard employees spilling...
Even Blizzard was amused by the URL prankster who forwarded Diablo fans to Path of Exile
One of the fun sideshows going on during the whole BlizzCon Diablo Immortal center-ring fiasco was the dude who bought the playdiablo4.com domain and...
Diablo III PTS patch reworks class set bonuses, adds quality-of-life improvements
This Wednesday, November 21st, Blizzard will be bringing the Diablo III PTS up to give players the opportunity to preview and test the game's...
Diablo’s David Brevik lambastes Blizzard over elimination of employee profit sharing
With the Diablo franchise taking heat from players over its mobile ambitions, Diablo II creator David Brevik decided to add more fuel to the...
One Shots: Take me home, country roads
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Destiny 2 encourages players to invite friends for exclusive loot
Is it just me, or does "refer your friend to the game and get stuff" sort of undercut the idea that the most fun...
Analysts say Diablo Immortal will bring financial success despite fan outrage
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The Daily Grind: What’s the most egregious example of a reskinned MMO?
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Path of Exile’s custom leagues are now live ahead of the expansion reveal
Path of Exile is on fire right now, and that was before Blizzard decided to botch Diablo Immortal and drive players into Grinding Gear...
One Shots: Winter is… here!
As I'm prepping this column, we're in the middle of a nice early November snowstorm. I'm sort of wondering where fall went and why...