October 28, 2015
The issue of botting has been around Diablo 3 for a long time, but has become much bigger in recent months as new and improved bots let players cheat the system more effectively. Unlike in the Diablo 2 days, Diablo 3 botting isn’t really done for legendary items (since those drop so fast during normal play), or even for EXP (since high level multiplayer games earn it 50x faster than solo).
July 24, 2015
July 16, 2015
It’s not quite the return of a long lost NPC, but another cool set piece in the new Ruins of Sescheron area is a Goatman-themed version of the classic Diablo 2 battle against the Ancients.
June 29, 2015
June 19, 2015
June 11, 2015
Heroes of the Storm has more Diablo content than Diablo 3 does, or at least that’s the joke going around, as the full details of the playable Crusader character and the Diablo-themed map for Heroes of the Storm have been revealed. For instance, check out all the Butcher’s special abilities and behaviors.
May 7, 2015
April 23, 2015
One of the best of the new bounties in Patch 2.2 is The Queen’s Dessert, which appears in the Caverns of Araneae in Act One. Prior to this patch that was everyone’s least favorite area, since the bounty there was usually to kill Queen Araneae, and it could take a long time to find her boss area. I haven’t seen the Queen Araneae bounty yet in S3, and I’ve done a fair number of Act One runs in search of a good roll on an RoRG.
April 8, 2015
April 1, 2015
March 31, 2015
February 15, 2015
A weirdly-amusing video from a Spanish TV show where a crazy old man with no teeth laughs hysterically through his garbled account of working a bad job has become a viral meme thing, with people plugging in creative subtitles. The usual approach is to portray the toothless man as someone from some tech company, laughing at how he rips off the customers. The raw cut without subtitles is here, and I don’t follow video card news, but apparently it’s been bad lately, since there’s a SHOCKING interview with Nvidia engineer about the 970 fiasco, and another one where an Nvidia engineer talks about free G sync.
February 2, 2015
In honor of the Seattle Seahawks’ bizarre decision to not win the SuperBowl, I created a thread in which we could share our similarly foolish last minute poor choices in the realm of Diablo 3. This is a bit like our Diablo 3 Darwin Awards thread, though that one’s just about dumb deaths. Defeat from the Jaws of Victory is more like an error that wasn’t necessarily crippling or fatal, but was really dumb and preventable in retrospect.
January 5, 2015
November 23, 2014
There is a video game called Goat Simulator. Inside of the game one can find a Diablo 2 style Secret Cow Level complete with noisy, bipedal, angry attack cows.
