Diablo

Diablo III’s Endgame Dungeons Can Be Disappointingly Empty

Greater Rifts in Diablo III are unforgiving sometimes—not because they’re hard, but because you have 15 minutes to kill a huge amount of monsters, even if the dungeon doesn’t actually have that many of them. YouTuber avtorouc entered one of these dungeons where the monster density was, well, quite low. He was lucky it wasn’t…

One Diablo III Feature That Gets The Game Back To Its Roots

Every Diablo fan remembers the first time they encountered The Butcher. Hearing the demon growl as he strode out of a room littered with bloody corpses gave us a terrifying glimpse at the hellish things to come in all our journeys: At least, that’s The Butcher from the original Diablo, which first came out for…

15 Must Have Diablo III Items

After an expansion, a console port, and several patches, Diablo III looks really healthy right now. With tons of special items and legendaries added to the game it almost—almost!—feels like Diablo II again, with all the math you have to do to assemble the perfect character with the perfect gear. We gathered 15 really great…

Why Did Nobody Tell Me There’s A Suikoden Reference In Diablo III?

Kotaku, we need to talk. You all KNOW that Suikoden II is my favorite game of all time, yet in the six months since Diablo III‘s Reaper of Souls expansion came out, not ONE of you has told me about this incredible Luca Blight reference. Until this past weekend, when Kotaku reader/hero Phil Caron told…

One Of The Most Difficult Things In Diablo III

Torment VI is no longer the hardest setting in Diablo III. With Greater Rifts—tiered dungeons—added, everything beyond Rank 25 is harder. So completing a Rank 40 Greater Rift is quite difficult. Yet, some folks can complete them in under 8 minutes. You have 15 minutes to do the run, every mob has billions of HP…

Paragon Level 300

And I still haven’t seen a single Wand of Woh drop. I know maining a wizard might not be the most efficent way to level up but it’s so much fun.

How To Get Tons of Loot in Diablo III’s New Dungeons

Diablo III‘s patch 2.1 for the PC introduced new endgame content: Greater Rifts. These are tiered, higher level dungeons with a 15-minute timer and with a boss at the end who almost always drops awesome loot. And there’s a smart way to finish these dungeons and get huge amount of legendaries. Here’s Diablo III veteran…

I’m Falling In Love With Long Video Games Again

I used to be really into the perfect “five-hour” game. These weren’t necessarily games that took five hours to complete, but it was always somewhere around that length of time that made it feel like the right amount of enjoyment without overstaying its welcome. I’m talking about games like the original Portal or even experiences…

Argghhhh. I want to be able to transfer my Diablo III save from Xbox One to PS4 and back but can’t. So frustrating, given all the other transfers Blizzard allows.

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Gets Its First Major Update

2.1.0 brings with it a competitive game mode based on Diablo II’s online ladders, called Seasons, and a new type of endgame dungeon: Greater Rifts. Both of these new additions will be supported by another newly introduced feature, the leaderboards, deepening the competitive aspect of the game—and of course, there’s hundreds of bugfixes and balance…

Diablo III On Xbox One vs PS4 vs PC

Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition dropped for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this week, and it’s good. So good, in fact, that it has Kotaku‘s Yannick LeJacq switching his Diablo allegiance from PC to PS4 Now the folks at Digital Foundry have put together a helpful side-by-side comparison of the game running on all three…

In The End, ​Diablo III Just Shouldn’t Have Been ‘Always Online’

Last night, I stayed up really late playing Diablo III. The internet here is spotty at best. I played a bunch of Diablo anyway. The only reason I was able to do that without regularly pulling my hair with irritation was that I wasn’t playing Diablo III on PC. Instead, I was playing Diablo III:…

Psychedelic Art Inspired By Some Very Specific Diablo References

This is a piece of digital artwork called “Halls of Viscera.” Look familiar? The “halls” and “viscera” are big hints. Ok, fine: it’s Diablo. Well, sort of. “Halls of Viscera” is one piece from an upcoming exhibition of Canadian artist Alex McLeod’swork that will go up next month in Montreal. All of the work I’ve…

Diablo III Feels Like It Was Made For Next-Gen Consoles

It all started with the dodge button. Blizzard added that to Diablo III when bringing it to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2013. Dodging was a great feature, but it wasn’t enough to make me switch my allegiance from playing on a PC. Now that Diablo III is out for the PS4 and…

​Which Diablo III Class Is Best?

Current-day Diablo III is a pretty different game from the one that launched back in 2012. But for all the changes, one thing remains the same: You still have to choose a character class before you play. Back when Diablo III first came out, I wasn’t surewhich class to pick. Should I be a monk?…

Diablo II Maps In Minecraft Will Fill You With Nostalgia

Even though the Arcane Sanctuary and the jungles of Act 3 in Diablo II were not the nicest maps with their unforgiving layout and enemies, there’s something in laztheripper‘s Minecraft recreation that makes me want to log back and run through them again. Here’s a huge gallery with almost every key location from Diablo II.…

Here’s The World’s First Level 1000 Diablo III Character

In the olden days, reaching level 99 in Diablo II was a pretty big challenge, but even though it’s easier to level up in Diablo III, getting to paragon level 1000 is just insane. But one dedicated guy, Gabynator, did it way before anyone else. He managed it with his guildmates, who opened up Malthael…

Oh Hey, It’s The Power Rangers In Diablo III

Barbarians might not be the most powerful class right now in Diablo III, but with a little creativity they’ll look like the most powerful ones. You just need to dress them up as the Power Rangers Jaetch and his friends used the Jade armor set, some familiar moves and the show’s classic soundtrack to make…

Someone’s Making Diablo In Divinity: Original Sin

We’ve talked about how much fun it is to play Larian’s Divinity: Original Sin, but have we mentioned how easy it is to build with it? In four days, Redditor docalypse has built the doomed city of Tristam from the original Diablo, with plans to reimagine the entire game as Diablo: Original Sin. The screenshot’s…

Blizzard is bringing Diablo III to China (though probably not as a “big pineapple”). The game will be operated by NetEase, which also provides servers for Blizzard’s other games—like Hearthstone and World of Warcraft—in Asia. (via Gamasutra)