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News You're Probably Going to Get Hooked to the PS4 Port of Diablo III
Cancel your plans for a while
Mechanical depth and narrative density are always appreciated aspects when we come to evaluating games, but sometimes you just want to smash up rancid ogres and equip increasingly impressive gear. Fortunately, there’s very little pretence to the impending PlayStation 4 port Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition, which...
News Diablo III on PS4 Will Come Equipped with Legendary Exclusive Features
'Blo'-ing in the wind
When it comes to the PlayStation 4 version of Diablo III, Blizzard has us completely spoilt. It was already announced that the next-gen port – which will be hacking and slashing its way onto the system sometime in 2014 – will include the Reaper of Souls expansion, and now a recent Polygon report has revealed that it'll also...
Review Diablo III (PlayStation 3)
The path to paradise begins in Hell
We've spent the past few days hacking and slashing through hordes of monstrosities, hoovering up loot, dazzling fellow adventurers with grandiose spells, instilling fear into the hearts of our enemies, and preventing Hell from consuming the world. Not literally, of course – we are referring to Blizzard...
Video Watch As We Dig into the Underworld in Diablo III on PS3
Hell fire
Diablo III isn’t the first PC title to be ported to the PlayStation 3, and it certainly won’t be the last. However, few could dispute the magnitude of Blizzard's overdue arrival on the current generation console, especially considering the serious server hiccups that its sequel's popularity prompted at launch last year. Fortunately,...
News Diablo III Deploying in 2014 on the PlayStation 4
Fire and brimstone
While you’ll be able to cruise through Diablo III's underworld on the PlayStation 3 from 3rd September, you’ll have to wait until 2014 to rummage through the adventure on your PlayStation 4. Despite being announced during Sony’s next generation coming out party in February, Blizzard has admitted that it's only just got...
E3 2013 Diablo III Will Include PlayStation Exclusive Items
Essential gear
One of the more muted announcements during Sony’s press conference, the platform holder quietly confirmed that the PlayStation versions of Diablo III will ship with some exclusive loot. But exactly what’s up for grabs? Well, speaking as part of a live interview with the PlayStation Blog, developer Blizzard spilled the beans. The...
News Blizzard Details Diablo III's Pick Up and Slay Dynamics for PS4
Old fashioned fun
Diablo III is an undeniably dense experience, but in bringing the popular PC title to the PlayStation 4, the company is hoping to streamline the adventure without stripping away any of its complexity. It intends to do this by introducing a new user interface on Sony’s impending system that will allow you to assign gear to your...
News Blizzard: Diablo III Is Not Necessarily a PlayStation Exclusive
Studio looking outside of Sony's systems
Diablo III was announced for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 during last month’s PlayStation Meeting press conference. It made its public debut at PAX East yesterday on Sony’s current flagship console. However, despite all of that, it looks like the title may not actually be exclusive to Sony’s sys
News Diablo III Looks Largely Like You'd Expect It to on PS3
Just another time sink
When pillaging our internal archives for a title to compare the PlayStation 3 version of Diablo III to, we happened upon one safe result: Diablo III. Seriously, save for the iconic button prompts at the bottom of the screen, this trailer could easily pass for PC footage in places. That’s good news, by the way. The title’s...
News Blizzard Teams Up With Sony to Announce Diablo III for PS4
And the PS3
During Sony's PlayStation Meeting, Blizzard Entertainment's Chris Metzen announced that the company has entered into a "strategic partnership" with Sony to bring Diablo III to the PS3 and its successor system, the PS4. The game will be a port of the PC version which was released last May, and, as stated in the press release, will include...
Rumour Diablo III Charging onto PlayStation 3
The crowds go crazy
Diablo III could be coming to the PlayStation 3, if a retail listing is to be believed. The trigger happy folks over at German shop RedCoon have listed a product page for Blizzard’s uber-popular dungeon crawler on PS3, prompting speculation that an announcement could be made during Sony’s E3 press conference this evening...
News More Fuel For The Fire: Blizzard Staffing Up For Console Version Of Diablo III
At this point there is no doubt that Diablo III is coming to consoles
There have been so many rumours, so many nods and winks, that it seems inevitable at this point. Edging us closer to that burgeoning inevitability is the discovery of a job posting on Gamasutra. In the listing, Blizzard states that it's in need of a Console Network Senior Software...
GamesCom 2011 Blizzard 'Serious' About Bringing Diablo 3 To Consoles
Rumours regarding a PlayStation 3 port of Blizzard's upcoming PC title Diablo 3 have been appearing online before time itself began
So it's hardly surprising to hear the World Of Warcraft company tell an audience at its GamesCom press conference that it "is very, very serious about bringing the Diablo 3 experience to the console". In fact,...
News So, Erm, Blizzard's Hiring A "PlayStation 3 Specialist" For Its Diablo III Team
Blizzard games are a big deal
Personally we wouldn't shed any tears if their entire line-up vanished into a big vat of nothingness, but people seem to like them. One Blizzard franchise gamers especially enjoy is Diablo — after all, they've been clamouring for Diablo III since the stone-ages. That's determination. Joystiq's picked up on a job...
News Blizzard Are Actively Investigating Diablo For Consoles
We've come to the conclusion that we have zero interest in Blizzard's gaming portfolio
Perhaps our ambivalence stems from our console background — as opposed to PC — but either way, the seemingly inevitable announcement of Diablo, Starcraft or Warcraft on PS3 would do nothing to excite us. Of course, Diablo in particular has been on PlayStation...
