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Revision as of 21:52, 23 January 2011

All the Media Coverage from 2010, archived to keep the page size reasonable. See the main media coverage page for up to date material.

Media Coverage Archive:
2008 - 2009 - 2010


June 2010

  • Commentary: June 28, 2010 -- The Real ID pushback really kicks into gear, with a scathing editorial by MMORPG guru Lum the Mad.
  • Commentary: June 17, 2010 -- Bashiok on new info... eventually. Plus commentary and discussion about Blizzard's PR strategy of limited info release, and why it's unlikely to change anytime soon.


May 2010

Amazing fan-made Diablo 3 level.
Monk poses dramatically.


April 2010

Tomb Vipers.
  • Other: April 13, 2010 -- News breaks that SC2 will require a monthly fee to play online in Russia. Most fans choose not to believe that this is a harbinger of D3's hypothetical online fees.
  • Other: April 1, 2010 -- Diii.net breaks the sad news that BlizzCon 2010 is already sold out, before tickets have even officially gone on sale. Better luck next year.
  • Picture: April 1, 2010 -- The first two Diablo 3 jigsaw images debut, showing outdoor areas from the WWI 2008 Gameplay movie. Both are awesome, and were enormously difficult to create.


March 2010

  • Blue Post: March 17, 2010 -- Blizzard on Armor Types and voting for Blizzard in a developer vs developer voting match.
  • Interview: March 17, 2010 -- Jay Wilson on Game Development. Possibly a Google translate of a Chinese industry conference where Jay Wilson made his contribution by talking about the seven shared development points of making a video game.
  • Blue Post: March 16, 2010 -- Diablo 3's Trading System will fix everything, according to Bashiok. Item trades, gold selling and many other topics discussed.
  • Interview: March 13, 2010 -- Rob Pardo learns from design mistakes in an article by Shacknews. Stuff like the D2 gold economy is a lesson learned and not repeated.
  • Other: March 9, 2010 -- A community vote measures the popularity of the various characters, showing a fairly even distribution of fans amongst the four so far revealed: Barbarian 24.22%, Wizard 21.06%, Witch Doctor 16.9%, Monk 16.17%, Undecided. More infos, plz 12.54%, Fifth character will be the coolest 9.11%.
  • Picture: March 9, 2010 -- New Artwork, and new better versions of older known artwork. Sons of the Storm has released new batches.
Pouty male Wizard = controversy.


February 2010

  • Blue Post: February 28, 2010 -- Bashiok on game difficulty and PUGs. Great fan debate about whether any D3 content should "require" more than one person ensued.
  • Interview: February 25, 2010 -- Blizzcast #13 goes live with Diablo 3 commentary on "phasing," respes, non-mana resources, randomness in the game, gold/item durability (which may return?), and BoE item issues.
  • Blue Post: February 25, 2010 -- Bashiok weighs in on class-specific weapons, and issue that always excites great player discussion. He returned to this issue a week later, with news that some of the class restrictions had been lifted.
  • Blue Post: February 10, 2010 -- Bashiok on the megasized shoulderpads (pauldroons) the Diablo 3 character concept art sports.
Female monk concept art.
  • Blue Post: February 5, 2010 -- Diii.net's vote for the best fan-art of the female monk semi-finals. The official version won big in the finals, vs. the top 3 pieces of fan art.
  • Other: February 4, 2010 -- Blizzcon 2010 date set for October 22-23 at the Anaheim Convention Center... but it's just a rumor, and is wiped away a day later.
  • Picture: February 3, 2010 -- Original artwork by Brom that the Diablo 2 box was based on debuts in the Blizzard art gallery.


January 2010

  • Blue Post: January 30, 2010 -- Bashiok on shared party skills, "griefing" in Diablo 3, and the employment benefits of being a forum slut.
  • Video: January 30, 2010 -- Diablo 3 humor featured in Episode 1 of the Jace Hall show. No female monk reveal (that came in the next weeks' show). The D3 content was teased in a trailer a week earlier,
  • Blue Post: January 26, 2010 -- Bashiok jokingly confirms that the Monk is so overpowered no other characters will be developed.
  • Blue Post: January 22, 2010 -- Bashiok on hard to see item drops and how Diablo 3 will work around that issue.



Newer & Older News

Newer and older headlines and articles are archived on the Media Coverage Archive pages: