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• Diablo 3 - Blizzard posts game director vacancy

  When Diablo 3 director Jay Wilson announced this week he was moving on to something new within Blizzard, he mentioned we might see a job posting advertising his old position. Today, that very thing happened. If you look on the jobs page for Blizzard, and there are 173 position available, under Diablo 3 you will […]

• Diablo 3 director moves onto something new within Blizzard

  Diablo 3 director Jay Wilson is stepping down from the team, and moving on to something new within Blizzard, he has announced.

• Diablo 3 PvP update: team deathmatch shelved

  Diablo 3’s long-awaited team deathmatch mode has been cancelled, although Blizzard will issue a patch adding duelling support while it works on a new solution.

• Diablo 3 designer apologises for "disrespect" towards franchise creator

  Diablo 3 designer Jay Wilson has issued a public apology for his much-shared Facebook comment responding angrily to criticisms of the action RPG.

• Diablo 3 patch 1.04: Blizzard addresses unbalancing concerns

  Diablo 3 patch 1.04 will give players the ability to overpower their characters by augmenting them with 100 new Paragon levels, enhanced buffs and gear, and much more. Blizzard’s game director Jay Wilson has explained why making players overpowered isn’t an issue.

• Diablo 3 dev responds to Brevik's criticisms: "F**k that loser!"

  Diablo 3 game director has responded to criticisms of the game made by Diablo 2 developer David Brevik on Facebook, unleashing a torrent of similar abuse.

• Diablo 3′s Auction House a “good service worth paying for”

  Blizzard’s Jay Wilson has previously stated Diablo III’s development team implemented the Auction House into the game in order to streamline the trading process, and because players like to trade for real money. However, Blizzard will also make money off any real-world transactions in the game, and the decision to take part of the proceeds […]

• Blizzard "not experimenting" with console port of Diablo III

  Although Blizzard wants to do a console release of Diablo III, it hasn’t actually started fiddling around with one, and isn’t even sure if it’s possible yet.

• Blizzard - Diablo III's Auction house will streamline the trading process

  Blizzard’s Jay Wilson has said Diablo III’s development team implemented the Auction house into the game because players like to trade for real money, and now they won’t have to do it outside the game anymore.

• Diablo III has more voice acting than any other Blizzard game

  Blizzard considered getting well-known actors in for Diablo III’s voice overs, but had to give up due to prohibitive costs.

• Diablo III director shut down discussions of perspective change

  If the idea of a non-isometric game bearing the Diablo game fills you with horror and outrage, you’re not alone; the game’s director is right on board.

• Diablo III Inferno mode twice as difficult as internal testers approved

  When Blizzard tested Diablo III’s Inferno difficulty, it ran detailed testing to ensure it found an appropriate challenge level – and then threw that data straight out the window in favour of turning the dial all the way up.

• Blizzard developer diary examines the state of Diablo III development

  Blizzard has released a developer diary featuring Diablo III director Jay Wilson, art director Christian Lichtner, and lead software engineer Jason Regier discussing the various stages and state of Diablo III development. It is around the 5 minute mark and posted below. Game’s out on May 15 for Mac and PC.

• PvP Arena system in Diablo III to be added post launch

  Blizzard has announced on the Diablo III blog the game will not ship with the PvP Arena system. Instead, it will be released in a patch following the game’s launch.

• Diablo III "expectations" post was "sarcastic": Blizzard

  Following a Blizzard blue post saying the firm is worried it “won’t be able to meet the expectations people have built up for themselves” over Diablo III, Jay Wilson has said the comment was “sarcastic” and couldn’t “further from the truth.”

• Diablo III's rune system now in final form

  The troubled rune system in Diablo II has undergone one last dramatic redesign ahead of the RPG’s expected release this year.

• Diablo III director: "No one will remember if the game is late"

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

• Diablo 15th Anniversary website goes live, firm "almost done" with Diablo III

  Blizzard has gone live with a 15 year Anniversary website for Diablo, which offers up a timeline, game overview, a retrospective, various developer interviews, and more. In one of the interviews, Diablo III director Jay Wilson states that the studio is “almost done with Diablo III,” which is a “fitting celebration of the 15th year […]

• Blizzard has "never invested in" consoles to the degree it's "doing now" with Diablo III

  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.”