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Players Are Already Doing Crazy Things In Diablo III‘s Season 5
Only a few days have passed since Season 5 started (as part of patch 2.4) in Diablo III’s PC version, and some players are already grinding on difficulty levels that most of us will never reach. Season 5 will last three months and it’s enough time for an average player to level up a character…
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Tips For Getting Back Into Diablo III
Diablo III changed a lot over the years. The expansion and the later patches added a lot more content to the game, and these changes might confuse players who stopped playing around Reaper of Souls or before, but want to come back to see what’s new. People running around in crazy gear, gaining hundreds of…
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Eight Cool Things In Diablo III‘s New Patch
Diablo III’s long awaited patch 2.4 is now live both in the US and in the EU. It’s quite a big update with new zones, items, game mechanics and small tweaks. The game feels a lot different if you haven’t played in months. The full patch notes are over here, if you wanna see them.…
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Diablo‘s Treasure Goblins Are Coming To World of Warcraft: Legion
Legion will introduce a new type of creature to World of Warcraft that might be familiar from Diablo III. It’s the Treasure Goblin, or as he’s known here, Treasure Demon. People playing the alpha build of the expansion bumped into the rare fella, who looks like a little annoying demon with a huge backpack. And…
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Getting Started With Devilian, The Mildly Awkward Diablo-Style MMO
There are four character classes in Trion Worlds’ Diablo-style MMO Devilian, launching next week in North America—busty woman, stout man, Dante from Devil May Cry and uncomfortably young-looking girl with a gun. Their official names are Evoker… Berserker… Shadowhunter but secretly Dante… and uncomfortably young-looking Cannoneer. Having dabbled with all four classes now, I regret…
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There’s A Cool Fallout Easter Egg In Diablo III‘s New Patch
With Fallout 4’s release the folks at Blizzard might have gotten a bit nostalgic, which could be the reason for this item in patch 2.4—a legendary gem to be exact—being full of Fallout puns. Here’s the item, called “Boyarsky’s Chip,” below. It has Leonard Boyarsky’s name, who worked on Diablo III, but was also the…
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After Diablo III‘s Set Items, Get Ready For… Set Dungeons
Adventures in Diablo III didn’t end with patch 2.3. There’s a new, similarly large content patch coming soon with enough new things packed in to make it worth going back and gain a few more Paragon levels. One of the most exciting things will be a feature called set dungeons. Bright green set items are…
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Deadmau5 Loses Top Hardcore Diablo III Character Due To Server Issues
Well this is how perma-death and Hardcore mode works in Diablo III. You’re not safe, even if you’re a famous electronic music producer with a very high ranked Demon Hunter. Whether it’s lag or bad luck, if your character dies, it’s gone forever. Deadmau5 is known for his addiction to Diablo III. In fact it…
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One Of The Most Popular Builds Of Diablo III Is Back
With the new items and gameplay changes of Diablo III’s superb 2.3 patch, one of the coolest builds of old times, the Archon, is back and got stronger for Season 4. It’s a fun build totally worth trying out with the new patch, that focuses on the Wizards’s massive Archon ability, something that was neglected…
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Diablo III’s New Hardest Difficulty Looks Brutal
Diablo III’s latest patch is now live, and among other things, it introduced four new difficulty levels to the game. While Torment VI wasn’t that tough, the new hardest setting, Torment X, when played properly, makes the game look like a bullet hell shmup instead of a hack and slash RPG. Here’s a two-minute example,…
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Diablo‘s Tristram, Etched In Wood
Graphic designer Alex Griendling teamed up with Neutral Ground and created a unique, laser-etched, 18” wide and 14” tall wood map of Diablo’s most iconic town, Tristram. It looks fantastic and compared to the original, it’s a very accurate map. Everything, even the peg-legged smuggler Wirt is there. Tristram’s map is not only one they’ve…
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The First Five Diablo-riffic Minutes Of Victor Vran
As an isometric fantasy action role-playing game, Victor Vran does a lot of the same things Diablo does. It also does several things Diablo doesn’t, which is what makes it awesome. For one, it’s got a main character with an impressively gravelly voice. (Update: In fact it’s Doug Cockle, the voice of Geralt in The…
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