Blizzard Looking For People To Work On Diablo Project

Blizzard has posted a job listing looking for an art director for an unannounced project, although that same listing clearly says Diablo.

WoW To Start Offering In-Game Tokens For Subscriptions Starting April 7th

Beginning tomorrow, April 7, World of Warcraft players will be able to play the MMO without paying real-world money, provided they have enough in-game gold.

Blizzard To Allow Players To Buy World Of Warcraft Gold With Real Money

Blizzard has taken a significant step away from subscriptions in World of Warcraft. The company has announced a plan to let players exchange in-game gold for game time, but also real money for gold.

Diablo III In Development For Xbox One and PS4, Release Not Yet Certain

Since Diablo III was announced for PlayStation 4, one question has been on the lips of many a console gamer. Readers have asked us, “what about Xbox One?” many times. The answer seems to be a bit more complicated than we originally realized.

Starcraft for Wii U 'might' work - Blizzard

Starcraft II lead designer says Wii U's GamePad touch screen provides opportunity to bring RTS to consoles, but admits interface not there yet.

Real-time strategy games like Starcraft require players to manage multiple units simultaneously, and for this reason, among others, the genre has remained mostly tied to PCs, which offer keyboard and mouse controls. But could Blizzard's RTS find a home on the Wii U? Starcraft II lead designer Dustin Browder explained to Kotaku that it "might" work, but ultimately, players would find the PC experience to be optimal.

"If I can control a cursor on the television with my hand on the touchscreen, that might be able to work," he said. "[But] because of the hotkey scenario, it's not like players actually play StarCraft with the mouse only--they play with the mouse and keyboard…We obviously allow new users to play mouse-only and that's really fun, but when you get serious about the game you do move into the mouse and keyboard space."

Elsewhere in the interview, Browder confirmed that Blizzard does not have a team dedicated to exploring the possibility of a console version of Starcraft, but said the company is always looking at new technology for its games. Browder went on to reveal that Sony presented Blizzard a demo of Starcraft II being controlled by the PlayStation Move, but this endeavor was dead on arrival.

"I wanted to kill myself," Browder said of the demo. "I found it very difficult to make it work.
 I believe that if I had practiced as much as he had, I would've enjoyed it more…but for us it felt like it was gonna be a lot more effort to still make that work, to still make that really sing."

In 2000, Blizzard shipped Starcraft 64 for the Nintendo 64. It was met by a warm critical reception, but all future series entries have landed only on the PC.

The next installment in the Starcraft II trilogy--Heart of the Swarm--is 99 percent complete, according to Browder. It will follow 2010's Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty and precede the final entry, Legacy of the Void.

[gamespot.com]

Diablo III Release 5-15-2012

Blizzard has announced Diablo III will launch on May 15, 2012. You can pre-purchase the game now through Battle.net.

Diablo III is one of two products expected from Blizzard in 2012. The developer is also working on Heart of the Swarm, the next version of StarCraft II, and Mists of Pandaria, an expansion to its popular MMO World of Warcraft, and has not clarified which will launch in 2012.

In recent months Blizzard has announced that a few features had to be trimmed to make this launch date, including the PvP mode and Mystic artisan. Blizzard's current plan is to patch the PvP mode in at a later date.

the game retails for $59.99 for the standard game and at gamestop the collectors edition
will retail for $99.99 and it includes;

BEHIND THE SCENES DVD

COLLECTOR'S EDITION SOUNDTRACK

THE ART OF Diablo III

Diablo® iii PC/MAC GAME

EXCLUSIVE in-game content:

DIABLO III AESTHETIC ARTIFACTS

WORLD OF WARCRAFT PET FETISH SHAMAN

STARCRAFT II BATTLE.NET PORTRAITS

DIABLO SKULL AND 4GB USB SOULSTONE

[source ign.com ]