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April 24, 2017
Diabloii.net Interview with David Brevik – Diablo Podcast #220
Diabloii.Net chats with ex-Blizzard and Diablo creator David Brevik about his work, Diablo 2, a Diablo 2 remaster and much more.
July 29, 2016
One life to live: On the Path with Grinding Gear Games Chris Wilson – Interview
Diabloii.Net Interviews Chris Wilson on the Hardcore mode Path of Exile and what it has to offer and what could be learned for Diablo.
November 14, 2015
June 20, 2015
Path of Exile: The Awakening beta keys available to PALS
This is a quick heads-up that PALS (subscribers) can now snag a Path of Exile: The Awakening beta key by adding their name to this post in the PAL forum. The beta will be running for a few more weeks and it gives access to the new gloomy looking Act IV.
June 12, 2015
Umbra Developer Interview by Flux
Flux has been moonlighting a bit this week and took some time out to interview developer SolarFall about their upcoming gorgeous looking CryEngine 3 ARPG Umbra which recently surpassed its Kickstarter goal. On hand to answer questions was Solarfall’s Daniel Dolui who discusses their game design influences which include Diablo 1 and 2.
May 15, 2015
Dave Brevik on the Original Diablo 3 MMO Design
A new interview with Dave Brevik, co-founder of Blizzard North and creator of the Diablo series, includes a mention of the initial plans for Diablo 3 at Blizzard North, when the game was going to be an MMO. The brief D3 conversation starts at around the 30:50 mark, and thanks to Nobbie for the tip.
October 22, 2014
Nightfalls: Diablo Clone or Copy?
Nightfalls is a browser based free to play MMO by 37Games. This little gem of a game popped up on reddit. The game features an archangel who falls from heaven and comes down to help the people of this world to defeat the demons.
January 11, 2013
Do Online Games Have The Worst Communities?
Are online gamers uniquely negative and prone to complain about their passions? That’s a question I’ve often heard posed in one form or another, and there’s some interesting writing about it by David Gaider, a writer for BioWare’s Dragon Age games, on his Tumbler blog. In the post he talks about how he basically avoids the official fan channels about the Dragon Age games since all of the negativity is depressing, but stresses that the loudest voices aren’t necessarily representative of the overall fanbase. It’s best if you read the whole post for the fuller context and nuance, but here are a couple of quotes:
November 14, 2012
Zynga Launches A Diablo Clone
It’s less fun to hate on Zynga now that their FB-exploiting, cash shop evil business model is cratering, but they’re still a handy bad guy to point and howl at, and with a new Diablo-clone game just launched on their system, here’s our chance.
August 22, 2012
Other D2 Devs Weigh in on the D3 Dev Comments Controversy
Today in the Runic Games forums, Max Schaefer weighed in on our instantly-infamous Dave Brevik interview and D3 Developers’ F’ing angry reaction to it. As you’ve heard in past interviews and some of our podcasts, Max always speaks his mind and shoots from the hip and PR-consequences be-damned, so it had to be good, right?
July 26, 2012
This Week on IncGamers
Tons of gaming goodness for you this week on IncGamers.com that I want to point out to all our beloved Diablo readers. New content this week includes
June 27, 2012
“Blade and Soul” Surpassing Diablo III in Korea?
Numerous websites are reporting that the open beta test for an upcoming Korean RPG title, Blade & Soul, achieved higher users percentages (20.35% vs. 17.74%) than Diablo III, last weekend in Korean Baangs. Is Diablo III on the way out in Korea, with its first weekend under 20% play time? No, since the concurrency figures from last weekend are a bit misleading, as explained in a short post on GeekOSystem.
May 18, 2012
April 19, 2012
Max Schaefer on Innovation and Variety in ARPGs
Fmulder points us to a new Max Schaefer interview on Rock Paper Shotgun. It’s a good piece, with comments from Max on TL2 and their (controversial) plans to release the very unhurried sequel to the very hurried Torchlight 1, about a month after D3.