Ready for some sad news? Blizzard Entertainment has announced today that Diablo III won’t be hitting store shelves this year. Instead the game will be release in early 2012. “With every game we make, the temptation is always very strong to launch as soon as possible. However, we didn’t put so many years of work into Diablo III to release a game that was almost ready. The beta test is going very well, and we look forward to making the most of the extra time we’re taking to deliver an experience that lives up to our vision for the game and the expectations of our players.” Mike Morhaime (CEO of Blizzrd).

While the news that we won’t be getting the game early is quite sad. I do admire Blizzard’s choice to hold on to the development until they think the game is ready. If only more companies did that, this industry would be in a much better place. No official release date yet, but for now if you have the beta enjoy the game.

Source: Gamasutra

Those of you who would love to play Diablo III with a controller, here some good news to brighten your day. At the Blizzard Entertainment’s job listing, they are looking for a Diablo III Lead Designer for consoles.

“Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented and experienced designer for the Diablo team. This position involves setting design direction for a team, as well as contributing heavily to game design. The ideal candidate has prior experience in console game development, proven experience in game design, an exceptional aptitude for critical thinking and analysis, outstanding people skills, boundless creativity, a strong visual aesthetic, extensive knowledge of Diablo, and a longstanding passion for playing games.”

Now of course this is not an “official” statement from Blizzard, but sure would be awesome to see Blizzard bring one of their big name titles to the consoles for once.

Source: Blizzard

Blizzard has just announced that they will be hosting they’re 6th BlizzCon. The event will take place Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22, 2011 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Blizzard has not announced anything about pricing information or the day tickets will be available to be bought, but we’ll keep you posted on that. If you are planning on attending the event, make sure you got the day off when the tickets go on sale, they tend to sell out in minutes and appear on ebay for outrageous prices.

For more information keep checking BlizzCon on regular basis.

Source: Press Release

While this can fall under category of rumor, seems that somebody has leaked some major information from Blizzard’s HQ. According to the leaked information Blizzard is planning to release Diablo III in the forth quarter of 2011, along with a Starcraft II expansion and the Phoenix campaign.

The long awaited World of Warcraft movie will be released in 2012, along with a new game (or maybe project name) called Titan. While all of this should be classified as rumor, if everything is indeed true then someone at Blizzard is going to get shot in the face.

Source: Edge
Via: Destructoid

News from Blizz Con are all rotating around Diablo 3, another class has been revealed, the demon hunter (which seems a lot like the amazon from Diablo II) is coming to kick some ass. Some of his/her abilities include, fan of knives, molten arrow, grenade, bola, and entangling shot. If you want to take a further look, check out this video.

Other Diablo news include a new arena system, which will work much like WoW arena system. You be able to do team PvP, or do 1v1 duels. The developers went on to say that they wanted to add deeper, more organized, and more fun to the PvP experience of Diablo III.

No release date yet for Diablo III, and judging by the number of classes they still have to announce (Druids!), I would say its still many months away.

Source: Diablo III Official Website