December 17, 2015
David Brevik will deconstruct Diablo at GDC 2016
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David Brevik will be talking about the original Diablo in a classic game postmortem talk.
Other Events
June 17, 2015
Monk, King Leoric, Amazon, Tyrael coming to Heroes of the Storm
On the new podcast N3rdwards engaged in some wishful thinking and made bold predictions that we might see substantial Diablo 3 content released from this year’s E3, since there’s some PC content in the recently/formerly filthy console spectacle. His predictions weren’t entirely wrong, as Blizzard has revealed a fair amount of news… just none of it related directly to Diablo 3.
April 1, 2015
Josh Mosqueira’s GDC Panel Video back Online
March 27, 2015
Diablo 3 Podcast: Westmarch Workshop Feat. Flux
Neinball and Katniss/Leviathan, two longtime guests on our Diablo 3 Podcast have been doing their own Diablo 3 podcast thing of late, which they call the Westmarch Workshop. Since this week is the anniversary of Reaper of Souls and more importantly the Reaper of Souls launch party, the guys invited me to join them on their podcast to chat about the past year in RoS and to reminiscences about the launch party.
March 6, 2015
Josh Mosqueira Diablo 3 Presentation: GDC 2015
Yesterday morning Diablo III Game Director Josh Mosqueira gave an hour-long presentation on Diablo III and Reaper of Souls at the annual Game Developers’ Conference. You can watch the whole thing on video, but if you don’t have an hour for that, here’s our transcript, with numerous screen captures to show the key visuals.
April 13, 2014
March 29, 2014
Diablo 3 Podcast #137: RoS Launch Party & First Impressions
The Reaper of Souls launch party was a blast, and the game’s launch went nearly flawlessly. Surprised? Relieved? Excited? All of the above? Flux, Katniss, Wolfpaq, and Neinball discuss their launch party experience and offer first impressions of Reaper of Souls.
March 26, 2014
Reaper of Souls Launch Party: A Hell of a Time
Flux joined about 500 of Blizzard’s closest friends at the Reaper of Souls Launch Party last night in Los Angeles, and a good time was had by all. There was great food and drink, hundreds of excited fans, and drunken Blizzard devs close enough to spill drinks on. Read on to read it all…
February 21, 2014
Win Tickets to the Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls Launch Party
A pair of tickets to the hottest event of the year could be yours. Join us & Blizzard.
September 19, 2013
Brian Kindregan Interview from GDC China
Forum user SaintMek made a great post relating his recent interview with Diablo 3 Lead Story guy Brian Kindregan, from GDC China 2013. He hasn’t been able to upload the full audio of the interview yet, but provides an excellent bullet point summary. Here are the highlights — see SaintMek’s forum post for the full quote.
July 11, 2013
Wyatt Cheng’s GDC 2013 Panel: Illustrated Transcript, Part Two
Here’s part two of our illustrated transcript and analysis of Wyatt Cheng’s GDC presentation on Diablo 3’s Iteration in development. You can view this video on Gamasutra; the time stamps listed below correspond to it.
July 10, 2013
Wyatt Cheng’s GDC Panel: Full Video & Transcript
Fmulder points us to Gamasutra, where Wyatt Cheng’s GDC Panel on Diablo 3 panel has just been posted, Iterating on Diablo III’s game systems. There’s no embed video option, so click to GamaSutrat to view it, though I’m going to add a transcript and summary to this post ASAP.
July 1, 2013
The Future of Diablo 3 Fansite Summit Mega-Report
This article covers all the doings and infos Blizzard shared with the attendees during the Diablo 3 Fan Site Summit at Blizzard Entertainment on June 28, 2013. Activities that day included Diablo 3 console play testing, Hearthstone play testing, a lengthy conversation with the entire Diablo 3 community team, lunch and a Diablo 3 roundtable with the entire Diablo 3 development team, and lots of miscellaneous conversation and insight from the CMs and other Blizzard employees.
June 24, 2013
Playstation 3 E3 2013 Presentation
This slipped under the radar, tucked away as it was on the Playstation site. It’s a presentation by Josh Mosqueira, Diablo 3’s new Game Director made from the Sony stand at this year’s E3. He’s joined by Jason Bender, John Hight], Tiffany Watt and Matthew Berger (sp?) who demo a four player game to the Sony crowd.
June 18, 2013
Josh Mosquiera Video Interview
Thanks to SilverFang for pointing us to Gamestar.de has posted a video interview from E3 with Diablo Console director / Diablo 3 Game Director Josh Mosquiera. Once you get past the weirdness of seeing a Blizzard employee giving an interview while not wearing a Blizzard t-shirt, it’s a quick 5:30 with some good info about console stuff. I listened and tapped down the key bits, as follows: