No real earth shaking news here, but Bashiok posted an interesting little response to a thread that was begun in the Battle.net forums yesterday. The topic was in regards to the planned animations for various weapon types in Diablo 3, and whether or not they would be unique for each weapon. Someone quickly chimed in to inform the other poster of Blizzard's plans for weapon … [Read more...]
Skill Swap and Keybindings
The other day in the Battle.net forums, Bashiok had shed a little insight as to how keybindings will work in Diablo 3, along with RMB (right-mouse-button) skill swaps. From his post it sounds like players will have access to 8 character functions on the fly. The UI will display 5 action bar slots which will be bound to keys 1-5 by default, plus the left and right mouse … [Read more...]
Torchlight 2 Moved Back to July Release
Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer recently announced that Torchlight 2 has had its release date pushed to sometime in July of 2011. This bit of news was disclosed during a recent interview with Digital Spy. The cause for the delay was an issue with porting the game over to its console version for Xbox. Additional work had to be done on the interface, but apparently this minor delay … [Read more...]
Blue Notes on Diablo 3 Runes
Some questions were posed about Diablo 3 runes in a recent post in the Battle.net forums. The ever helpful and attentive Bashiok stopped in to shed some light on the subject. Nothing he said was too specific or telling, but there were enough juicy tidbits to satiate a little curiosity. Here's a brief summary of what was discussed... … [Read more...]
Diablo 3 Beta NDA
Sounds like there won't be any. For those unfamiliar with the term, NDA stands for Non-Disclosure Agreement. NDAs are usually enforced during beta testing, as Blizzard does not want unofficial announcements made, or testing information (buggy game mechanics, etc) leaked to the public. Beta testers are typically sworn to secrecy during this phase, and may only report bugs, … [Read more...]
Pet Micro-Management in Diablo 3
Will players such as Witch Doctors be able to micro their pets (ie: minions)? In short, no. Diablo 3 will not enable players to command their pets to attack certain targets, move to certain locations, etc. However, it sounds like their will be interesting gameplay mechanics that will provide players with opportunities to decide how best to use their pets in certain … [Read more...]
Diablo Books
Ever wonder how the various Diablo books relate to the actual game storyline? Did you even know that there were fantasy books written around the Diablo storyline? Well now you do. ;) In fact, there have actually been quite a few books that have been published with stories that vary from loosely based, to tales that paint scenes and images directly based upon actual in-game … [Read more...]
Diablo 3 PvP Arena
More news coming out of BlizzCon 2010... Diablo 3 is going to feature an arena stystem for PvP, in which players can duel or challenge each other in team play. Right now it looks like arena teams will be capped at 4 players each. Rather than reintroduce a game world where players can flag themselves and go grief other players, Blizzard has elected to incorporate a system in … [Read more...]
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