Our latest coverage of Diablo 4.
During last month’s Diablo 4 weekend beta tests, players were able to experience the earlier chapters of the game’s storyline. Today, they’ll get a glimpse at the online ARPG’s endgame in the latest episode of Blizzard’s Inside the Game video series. “After finishing the campaign, challenge yourselves with higher World Tier difficulties by completing Capstone Dungeons. The higher the World [...]
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Last weekend was a big one for both Diablo 4 fans and Blizzard Entertainment as the studio opened up the highly-awaited game for public testing. According to a recently released infographic, testers accrued a whopping 61,560, 437 hours of playtime, setting the record for the biggest beta test in the Diablo franchise’s history. The infographic also touted 29 billion monsters [...]
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Before Blizzard kicked off its Diablo 4 open beta test this weekend, the studio warned testers that it’s going to be a bumpy ride. As it was foretold, so has it come to pass. The ongoing playtest has been plagued by long queues and various stability issues that the developers have been working to address on the fly, aside from [...]
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Diablo 4’s highly-awaited open beta test is now well underway on PC and consoles, giving anyone and everyone a chance to take the shared world action RPG out for a test drive for the entire weekend. Testers will be able to level their characters up to 25 as they play through the game’s prologue and first story act much like [...]
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Blizzard is coming up with the weirdest marketing campaigns to hype up this month’s Diablo 4 weekend beta tests. For last week’s pre-order beta, the studio partnered with KFC to give away beta codes with chicken sandwich purchases. For this weekend’s open beta, the big blue has teamed up with ThumbTack and is giving away free credit for household services [...]
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That’s a wrap for Diablo 4’s pre-order beta test. While it didn’t exactly go as smoothly as Blizzard (and players) would have hoped, it did give the developers much-needed data and feedback on things that they need to work on for next weekend’s playtest. Some of the more pressing issues that need immediate attention include long queues, server problems, and [...]
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Diablo IV's open beta night was less of a victorious descent into the inferno and more of a comedy of errors. Excited players encountered a trifecta of tribulations: long queues, frequent disconnects, and stuttering performance. Queue-pocalypse Now The night started off with a bang, or rather, a whimper, as players eagerly awaiting their descent into the fiery pits of Diablo [...]
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Diablo 4’s first beta test is now underway and will be open throughout the weekend for those who pre-ordered the game or stuffed themselves with finger lickin’ good sandwiches. As part of a cross-marketing promotion with KFC, Blizzard will be giving away beta keys to anyone in the US who orders either a Double Down or Chicken Sandwich through the [...]
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With the Diablo 4 weekend beta tests looming on the horizon, Blizzard has once again updated the beta announcement page with more information about the upcoming play tests. According to the dev team, the March 17th pre-order beta test and the March 24th open beta will offer testers a “small slice of Sanctuary” by allowing them to explore the entirety [...]
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Blizzard is giving Diablo 4 fans an alternative way of getting into next weekend’s pre-order beta test without the need to pre-order the game. In what might just be the weirdest video game marketing promotion I’ve seen to date, Blizzard has partnered with KFC to give away free beta keys with the purchase of a Double Down Sandwich or a [...]
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