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BlizzCon 2011

December 6, 2011

Diablo Sculpture and Bust from Blizzcon 2011

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HolyKnight points us to Blizzard artist Sam Yang’s post on 3D modeling site Z Brush, which shows off an amazing Diablo sculpture he created as part of the on-stage art demos at this year’s Blizzcon. It’s a shockingly-detailed and oh-so-3D view, showing Diablo’s spikes and scales and even the odd, toothy-mouths on his shoulders. Click the pic for a larger view, and also check out the finished sculpture created from this 3D prototype.

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By: December 6th, 2011

November 20, 2011

Kevin Martens and Josh Mosqueira Blizzcon 2011 Interview

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Fmulder dug up another Blizzcon 2011 interview, this one conducted by Merlin’in Kazani and featuring Kevin Martens and Josh Mosqueria. Kevin does most of the talking in this six-minute piece (Josh gets like, one console question) and supplies details about D3’s story, returning D2 classes, the Diablo 3 Beta being too easy, expansion/DLC plans, and more. An approximate quote I transcribed quickly:

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By: November 20th, 2011

November 18, 2011

Leonard Boyarsky Blizzcon Interview

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Fmulder spotted a new Leonard Boyarsky interview on NAG Online. It was recorded last month at BlizzCon, and covers lots of interesting story and plot stuff. How LeBo transitioned from being an artist into doing story and content, how they worked story into Diablo III, how they wanted to update the lore and world state from previous games, etc.

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By: November 18th, 2011

November 9, 2011

More BlizzCon Arena Demo Coverage

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Tom’s Hardware has posted an article about the Blizzcon 2011 Diablo 3 PvP Arena Demo. It’s fairly short, with just a paragraph each on the Demon Hunter, Wizard, and Barbarian, but if you’ve soaked up all of our previous PvP Demo articles, you might want to give it a look.

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By: November 9th, 2011

November 8, 2011

Julian Love Interview @ DiG

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Digital Innovation Gazette spoke with Julian Love, presumably at Blizzcon 2011. The questions are more about how the developers work than what’s in the game, and thus it’s got some stuff we haven’t seen twenty times before.

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By: November 8th, 2011

November 6, 2011

The Diablo Podcast #50: Blizzcon 2011 Recap

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The fiftieth episode of The Diablo Podcast features Flux speaking with regular guest Neinball and first time guest Grug about their experiences at this year’s BlizzCon convention. They guys have hit 8 Blizzcons between them (and Flux has been to 4) so there’s a lot of past experiences compared to this year’s, which both guests enjoyed quite a bit.

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By: November 6th, 2011

November 3, 2011

Shark Form Azmodan = Blizzard North Monster

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During the Black Soulstone cinematic panel at BlizzCon 2011, the D3 devs talked about early concepts for Azmodan, and showed off one very odd “human with a shark’s head” type of monster, as their earliest version of Azmodan. You can see concept art of it to the right, and even a casual glance shows that creature has nothing in common with the version of Azmodan seen in Diablo 3. That Azmodan is basically a corpulent human on crab legs; huge, fleshy, grotesque, and not at all human in form, while that earlier version was a muscular human with a shark’s head.

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By: November 3rd, 2011

November 2, 2011

Barbarian PvP Demo Report: Blizzcon 2011

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Wrapping up the five classes from the Blizzcon 2011 Arena demo, here’s The Eliminator’s report on the Barbarian. The intro and first skill description are below; click through for the rest of the report, and easy navigation to the other class reports and podcast we’ve posted as part of our Blizzcon Arena demo coverage.

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By: November 2nd, 2011

Portrait Studies of all Five Classes

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These five images were shown in a developer feature during the Blizzcon Live Stream, each one picturing the faces of the male and female of each class. These appear in the game as your character’s portrait when they’re speaking various lines of dialogue, but those views are thumbnail sizes. These are huge, each M/F pair is nearly a desktop-sized image, so check them out.

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By: November 2nd, 2011

Blizzcon 2011 Poster Artwork and Sheablo Speculation

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Blizzard has finally released the Blizzcon 2011 poster artwork in a high quality digital image (as a wallpaper), and it’s a good chance for us to once again view Diablo and his/her child-bearing hips. Debate about this has raged since the event, with the most obvious conclusion/rumor that a female is somehow possessed by Diablo’s spirit, soul-stone style.

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By: November 2nd, 2011

November 1, 2011

Jason Bender Blizzcon 2011 Interview

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The Blizzcon interviews keep coming, and this is one of the best ones yet, with Blizzard’s Jason Bender talking with Nathon Grayson of VG24/7. I mean “talking” literally; it’s like a conversation from a podcast, rather than the usual press guy reading off a list of unrelated questions that are replied to with pat answers.

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By: November 1st, 2011

Robert Bridenbecker Interview on the RMAH

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There’s still some BlizzCon stuff appearing and we must have missed this one when it was posted (slaps wrists), although it was posted by Azzure on Diablo3Markets a couple of days ago. So in case you missed it, this is press interview with Robert Bridenbecker, Vice President of Online Technologies at Blizzard, discusses the RMAH.

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By: November 1st, 2011