September 10, 2011
Fmulder did his usual internet detective thing and struck gold once again. He found this page from a Chinese gaming blog, which hosts a substantial display of photos taken at Blizzard’s offices during the beta-preview media event in late July. We’ve seen the offices and the lunch and other stuff before, but there was one picture in the bunch that was new to me. It’s young Jay Wilson?
August 30, 2011
A new video interview with Diablo 3 developers Alex Mayberry and Jason Bender has appeared on JeuxVideo, a French gaming site. It’s not a new interview; the footage was recorded back in July at the Blizzard media event, and it’s not really an interview; it’s under five minutes in length and we just get two minutes of each guy talking about game features.
August 19, 2011
One perpetual complaint of Diablo II players was that game’s Lying Character Screen. Due to code errors and patch changes in how various stats were calculated (there’s more explanation in the DiabloWiki article) many of the displayed numbers were incorrect, and joined the lack of other key stats (Magic Find, damage reduction, etc) to make the overall display of character statistics less than fully informative.
August 18, 2011
Amidst all of the interviews and content coverage that stemmed from the Blizzard media event in late July, we missed this Gamespot video interview of Leonard Boyarsky, and thanks to reader Soumya for using our new Submit News button to send us a reminder of why it’s worth watching. The interview is only five minutes long and the first three are taken up by Leonard doing a nice concise job of recapping the whole story of D1 and D2. The last question redeems the feature, as the interviewer gets Leonard to reveal a bit of the overall story of Diablo III that we’ve never before heard so explicitly stated.
August 15, 2011
This is meant to be the counterpart to the Most Beautiful Thing post from last week, though somehow I doubt quite as many of you guys will want to grab this one for your new wallpaper.
August 13, 2011
G4TV has posted a video of what they’re calling a Diablo III Combat Preview. It features Jay Wilson talking about some of the game’s combat stuff, plus lots of clips of gameplay action. Nothing Jay says is news, and almost all of the video is taken from the new gameplay movie, but there’s still new stuff in the movie.
August 12, 2011
There’s no doubt the past couple of weeks have been interesting times for the Diablo 3 development team and in an interview with Gamasutra Leonard Boyarsky talks a little about fan feedback and reactions.
August 10, 2011
A new forum member named superhuman posted a still taken from an IGN video, which shows a bit of Diablo III we’ve not yet seen. As described in Judge Hype’s massive report, one of the early areas in the game is an Inn in Tristram, where your character seeks out Leah. While talking to her the other villagers start to act weird, and soon enough they go full zombie and the battle is on.
August 9, 2011
Well, maybe not *that* beautiful, but if this doesn’t give you a twitching finger and a WANT beating in your chest, you’re probably reading the wrong website. The picture was taken at the Blizzard beta preview media event a couple of weeks ago — click through to see it in huge size; plenty big enough to set as your desktop, if you want to torture yourself. Or send the jpg to your noob friends and tell them it’s a photo of your desk, just to watch them freak out.
Media reports from the Bliz event last week brought us interesting details about the artistic, 2D style game and character introductions previewed at the event. No images have yet been revealed, (filming was not allowed during the presentation, and Blizzard hasn’t released any official views) but the cinematic was described as similar to an illustrated book coming to life. With sound and narration, and animation, of course.
August 8, 2011
Gametrailers has added a short non-interview with Rob Pardo. It’s just him talking; the questions are not included until the very end when the interviewer asks about Project Titan… and gets nothing.
We saw a bunch of hands-on reports early last week, plus the masterpiece that was JudgeHype’s mega-report, but since we can always use more first person accounts of playing Diablo III, it’s nice to see a better-late-than-never hands-on reports pop up at AusGamers.
Fmulder points us to a short video interview of Diablo III’s Technical Director Julian Love. It’s not exactly an interview, since no one’s talking but Julian. Instead it’s just him speaking on several game issues, with lots of gameplay footage.
August 7, 2011
There’s no specific theme to this installment of Upon Closer Inspection. I’ve just been cropping cool bits out of the recent screenshots to add to the leading Diablo Wiki, and thought a number of them deserved a closer look. These pics are large to show off the details, but I haven’t enlarged any of them; they’re just cropped out of the huge screenshots which I thought were awesome. I am apparently in the minority in that view, given how many commenters were like, “D3 y u no have anti-aliasing!!!1!” but since I get to post news where everyone in the Diablo community reads it and those guys don’t… nyah nyah nyah.
I would have sworn I’d posted this one already, but I don’t see it in the past news, so here goes. Diablo III’s Lead Technical Artist Julian Love was interviewed by AusGamers at the Blizzard media event last week, and said stuff. Stuff!