All Stories Tagged: Diablo Series, Page 19

Diablo III on PS3 and PS4 will include exclusive Sony-related items that you'll be able to equip your characters with.

Blizzard had already announced the PlayStation 3 version of Diablo 3, so we had assumed it was coming to Xbox 360 as well. It appears our assumptions were right, as the company announced a version for Microsoft's current gen console, and a release date of September 3 for both.

The upcoming PS4 version of Diablo 3 will use the PS4 touchpad in some way, although Blizzard is being a bit coy about how it all actually works.

A gold-duping bug that has forced the closure of both auction houses should be fixed soon, but Blizzard has decided not to rollback the servers to pre-patch status, instead choosing to deal with the individual player accounts that decided to play fast and loose with the rules, namely don't exploit bugs you find.

The promised upgrades to Diablo 3's cooperative play experience are out today with the new 1.0.8 patch, along with a bunch of adjustments to the classes, monsters and loot to make adventuring a bit easier.

It's been almost a year since Diablo 3 launched, but the game has gotten some renewed attention because of the console versions that are in development. Now, you can start pre-ordering the PlayStation 3 version of the game and get an in-game item to make power-leveling easier.

Blizzard has gabbed before about focusing on Diablo 3's co-op experience in patch 1.0.8, but what does that actually mean? What's new? What about me? What about my needs? Thankfully, Blizzard's thinking of me, and has explained a lot of changes to make multiplayer friendlier and less frustrating.

Diablo 3's game director Jay Wilson admitted today that both the real money and gold-based auction houses have "really hurt the game," but Blizzard hopes to fix the problems it has caused in minimizing item values instead of shutting them down completely.

People have been awfully naughty abusing Diablo III's account rollback feature, which is only there to help people who've been hacked. First, Blizzard had to fix it to stop babies from resurrecting permadead Hardcore characters, and now it's making changes to stop charlatans duping items.

A hands-on preview of Diablo 3 running on a PlayStation 3, peppered with thoughts from senior level designer Matthew Berger.