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Activision Blizzard has released its full-year 2011 and Q4 financials, and has said to expect Diablo III during Q2 this year, which would place it somewhere between March and June, and a new entry in the Call of Duty franchise with “meaningful innovation” is expected this year.

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Community manager Bashiok caused a stir this week by announcing that Diablo III wouldn’t have in-game chat – but it will.

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Blizzard has continued making changes to the Diablo III beta, and the most recent change to the game has been the removal of Scrolls of Companion and Scrolls of Reforging.

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Three games this year? BlizzCon’s 2012 is no more, but people shouldn’t panic over the loss of the most enthusiastic fan event in gaming’s calendar, says Johnny Cullen.

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Steve Parker, senior producer on Diablo III, has announced  via Twitter he is no longer working at Blizzard. “Hey Twitter, I’m no longer working at Blizzard or on D3,” read the tweet. “I’ve had a great 5 years there and those guys are going to do an amazing job with Diablo.” Parks never said where he was going next, only that he was “looking forward to bigger and better things.” Further tweets suggest his split was amicable as it had been a “pleasure” to work on the game, he said. Parker’s just moving onto something else, basically, so best of luck to him. Meanwhile, in case you didn’t know already, Blizzard is looking for a senior producer at the grade one level for Diablo III. If you’ve got what it takes, apply. Thanks, BlizzPlanet.

Blizzard has dismissed complaints that Diablo III has spent too long in the cooker, citing the resulting quality of the finished product.

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South Korea has finally given Diablo III a rating, which will see the game release in the country, rated for those 18-and-up. The RPG’s certification was put on hold earlier in the month, due to concerns raised by the Korean Game Rating Board over the title’s auction house feature. However, in order to get the game passed in the country, Blizzard has to removed the RMT auction house for the Korean version. Still no date, but this is still good news for South Korean gamers. Thanks, Shack.

Retailers have no idea when Diablo III will arrive, Blizzard has confirmed.

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Diablo III’s release in South Korea is in danger of not happening, according to the Korea Times, throwing into doubt the game’s planned global sim-ship.

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In an attempt to further integrate its entire fan community into the Battle.net service, Blizzard today introduced BattleTags. BattleTags are an official name for a player account so that players don’t have to post under multiple names across multiple games. The BattleTag will be used to identify the player on Blizzard services like forums. More »

Blizzard’s released a new trailer which shows the full opening cinematic of Diablo III, which aired during the recently concluded Video Game Awards 2011. The trailer gives you an idea about how it all started and what kind of forces you’ll be facing throughout the game. It looks pretty good. Diablo III is due out sometime in 2012 exclusively for PC. You can watch the trailer after the break.

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Blizzard has announced it will soon introduce a new feature called Battle.net Balance. It’s basically a virtual wallet Battle.net users can add funds to, using various payment methods. The user can then dip into the wallet to purchase World of Warcraft digital products, and soon, purchase items and store various earnings from Diablo III’s auction house into the wallet.

The new Battle.net Balance feature will be “rolled out” in the weeks ahead, according to the firm, and you can check out the FAQ on the new system through here.

Blizzard has announced the hardbound edition of Diablo III: Book of Cain will be released on December 13 for $35.00 in the US. A localized version for other regions will be released on February 7, 2012 internationally.

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The first lectures for GDC 2012′s Main Conference have been announced, and include a look at the art of Diablo III, a postmortem on Halfbrick’s Jetpack Joyride, and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City’s visuals and animation.

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Jay Wilson has said Blizzard’s goal with creating a console version of Diablo III is to make it feel as if “it’s natively made for a console.”

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The European end of Battlenet has word that Diablo III beta keys will be handed out via the game’s official sweepstakes page on Facebook. Every Monday, 200 entrants will be picked to receive a key, and every fourth person will hit will be handed an additional key to give a friend. Diablo III launches for PC and Mac next year sometime. Thanks, Blue.

It’s Saturday, finally. Can I get a hell yeah? Awesome.

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BlizzCon 2011′s Sound Panel session offered a revealing look at the work that goes into aurally caressing your ear lobes

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At Blizzcon 2011, Nathan Grayson sat down with Blizzard’s Jason Bender to discuss one of the hottest tickets of the season: Diablo III.

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Blizzard’s said mods will not be supported in Dibalo III not only because of the persistent internet connection requirement, but also because the firm doesn’t want it to be moddable.

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