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Blizzard has a released at look into the development of Diablo 3 for PS3 and PS4, via new video diary on the PS Blog.

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Log in for a few hours with Diablo 3 this week and you’ll be rewarded with increased XP gain and magic find, in celebration of the RPG’s first birthday.

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Blizzard has identified 415 Diablo 3 players who took advantage of last week’s gold multiplying exploit, and will be diverting their profits directly to a good cause.

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Diablo 3 Auction Houses are back online, after the services were taken offline due to a gold exploit in patch 1.0.8 was discovered earlier this week,Blizzard has announced. Maintenance has concluded, and both the gold and real-money Auction Houses are now live and gold trades have been reactivated. Go nuts.

Blizzard has said it is still “auditing transactions that were performed on the both the gold and real-money Auction House,” in Diablo 3 following the gold exploit in patch 1.0.8 discovered earlier this week.

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Diablo 3 on Mac and PC has been patched with the usual boatload of tweaks and fixes, but perhaps the most interesting aspect is an XP and gold boost in co-operative multiplayer sessions.

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Blizzard really seems to have taken the first console port of Diablo 3 seriously, making significant changes to interface and controls, as well as gameplay itself.

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If you’ve already made up your mind to pick up Diablo 3 when it makes its console debut later this year, you can score bonus items by slapping a pre-order down.

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Diablo 3′s 1.0.8 patch contains some changes to support and changed to the UI, according to an updated post from Blizzard. According to the firm, tags such as Keywarden, Full Act Clear and more are being added to public Matchmaking games, and bonuses will also be handed to mulitplayer modes. These bonuses include extra XP, Gold Find, and other boosts. Enemy health has also been reduced from 70% per added player to 50% per added player. The UI changes include notifications when a player hands out damage or takes it from things such as Treasure Goblins. This notification marks the player’s location on the map for other in his or her group. The full thing can be found through the link. Thanks, Massively.

Diablo 3 item duping has been culled by developer Blizzard. It’s a process that saw players giving items to a mate and then having tech support roll back their character to spawn the items over and over again. No more, however.

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Diablo 3 won’t have an auction house on PlayStation 3, but it will still allow you to trade for specific gear.

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Diablo 3 gameplay footage has popped up over on AGB. The Blizzard RPG was announced for PS3 and PS4 during Sony’s PlayStation event in NYC last month. Check it out below.

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A new job ad suggests Blizzard is planning a “next generation Battle.net Desktop Client on OS X”. That’s probably only of interest to those of you with powerful enough office Macs to sneak in a few quick World of Warcraft quests between meetings, but it’s interesting that it’s described as a “next-gen” client. To enter the remote realm of Wild Speculation for a few minutes, perhaps Blizzard will appear at an Apple event showcasing a new iMac range, or launch a universal client across Mac, PC and consoles with Diablo 3. Back in reality: oh good, a better Battle.net client for Macs.

Thanks, Superannuation.

Diablo 3 developer Blizzard is playing around with the idea of letting players customise their item stats. It may be possible to reduce some stats of a certain item in order to give others a boost. Either way, the studio is considering it.

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Blizzard is not only looking to improve “co-op farming efficiency’ with Diablo 3 update 1.0.8, bit it also looking into making Rare and Legendary items more special.

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Diablo 3 is heading to PS3 and PS4, but players on both formats will not be able to team up with PC players running the game via Battle.net.

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Diablo 3 on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 will be playable offline, according to an interview reported by Eurogamer. The interview is no longer available, but Sony’s John Hight is said to have mentioned offline play briefly before being interrupted. The news makes sense in a console context but the Mac and PC versions of Diablo 3 famously require always-on Internet in order to help keep it free from hacks and cheats, something the real-money Auction House requires. The console version will have a number of interesting features and has not been dated.

Diablo 3 developer Blizzard has posted debut screens of its console build, heading to PS4 and PS3. The studio has also discussed key elements of the game, such as custom controls and co-op.

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StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm has received a patch preview trailer from Blizzard, in which community manager Cloaken talks about the studiosview on the evolving eSports scene and the expansion’s multiplayer component. The studio has also sent us a recap of Wings of Liberty patch 2.0.4 in full.

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Blizzard has announced BlizzCon 2013 will take place in November at the Anaheim Convention Centre in Anaheim, California.

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