April 13, 2016
John Yang Joins World of Warcraft Team
Thanks to HolyKnight for pointing us to a new tweet by John Yang, in which he announces that he’s changed teams within Blizzard.
Leonard Boyarsky
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Leonard Boyarsky Leaves Blizzard and Joins Obsidian
Diablo 3’s Lead World designer has left Blizzard.
March 1, 2016
Watch all the Diablo 3 Dev Lightning Talks
Miss the dev chats at BlizzCon? Watch these.
August 15, 2014
Diablo 3 Story: The Black Soulstone Explained
August 5, 2014
Diablo 3’s Future Plot: Why is Diablo Free?
May 19, 2012
Great Diablo 3 Developer Interviews
In addition to the slew of quickie video interviews, the recent days have seen some more substantive interviews with the Diablo 3 developers.
Another Glut of Diablo 3 Team Interviews
We already posted a huge slab of Launch Night interviews, and thanks to fmulder and his GoogleFu, here are a bunch more. These are all quickies filmed from various launch night events, so don’t expect a great deal of introspection and detailed insight into the creative process.
May 15, 2012
Diablo 3 Launch Night Coverage Interviews
Last night was pretty exciting waiting for the release, I know the team here had a lot of fun talking to everyone in the chat and taking part in the launch show. Loads of interviews have now been posted from numerous launch events including:
March 21, 2012
Blue on Game Length, DPS Display, Beta Waves, and Nicknames
Lots of Blue forum posts lately, covering all types of issues. Mostly stuff we’ve heard a million times before, but a few had semi-new-ish stuff, and they’re quoted here.
January 5, 2012
Gamespot Interviews Leonard Boyarsky
December 16, 2011
Leonard Boyarsky Interview
Gamesplanet NZ has posted a new interview with Leonard Boyarsky. Parts of it read like past LeBo interviews, but there are some new bits, and there’s even a new screenshot, showing some Monk battle action against a variety of Fallen in Act Two. Have we seen such a clear view of a Fallen Shaman before in a HQ screenshot? I don’t believe so.
November 18, 2011
Leonard Boyarsky Blizzcon Interview
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.
October 22, 2011
Leonard Boyarsky Interview on Direct TV
Leonard Boyarsky joined the two hosts for a live chat after the Diablo III Lore Panel on Saturday morning. Most of the discussion rehashed topics from the previous panel, but there were a few issues that were new. Rough transcript below:
Diablo III Lore Panel Coverage
Lore Panellists
August 18, 2011
Diablo 3’s Heroes: On the Side of Heaven or Hell?
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.