Tag Archives: Diablo III

Geoffrey Tim

Diablo III glitch money goes to charity

May 13, 2013 at 11:15 am | 8 Comments

Diablo III’s “Real Money Auction House” was recently taken offline following an exploit that allowed players to duplicate their in-game gold, which could be translated to real-world money. Many expected Blizzard to make the problem go away by rolling back accounts to a time before the glitch occurred – but instead, they’ve taken to analysing accounts, and will be giving the ill-gotten gains to charity.


Geoffrey Tim

Diablo III’s economy is broken

May 8, 2013 at 2:13 pm | 47 Comments

Remember how Diablo III’s online requirement wasn’t DRM, but was rather instituted because the game had a persistent, global economy? Well that economy is now well and truly poked.


Yolanda Green

Diablo III PvP goes live

February 13, 2013 at 2:30 pm | 34 Comments

Diablo III’s patch 1.0.7 has gone live, adding the structured competitive combat system, otherwise known as PvP, or playing against other gamers instead of AI. Many might not be convinced that this feature could salvage the game, but Blizzard has done some amazing things with PvP in their other games.


Yolanda Green

The Lazygamer Awards 2012 – Best PC Game

December 18, 2012 at 3:30 pm | 31 Comments

This one goes out to my fellow Master Race errr species? We love our PC games and they love us right back! This year has seen some awesome PC games, from MMO’s to strategy games to RPG’s and MOBA’s. BUT WHICH TITLE WAS THE BESTEST? It could only have been: *drum roll*


Matthew Figueira

In the Ring: Borderlands 2 Vs Diablo 3

December 7, 2012 at 3:30 pm | 35 Comments

It's one thing to look into a game as an individual product, but human nature tends to have people throwing down comparisons left, right and centre. When there is no official yardstick to measure something, the next best thing is to look at is something similar. Gamers compare all sorts of things all the time. Boxers have their own unique attributes on paper, but it is their ability in the ring that determines who reigns supreme. It is with this thinking that I present to you today's two contestants in a gaming head to head battle.


Yolanda Green

Blizzard confirms Diablo 3 expansion

November 8, 2012 at 9:45 am | 39 Comments

Diablo 3 will receive an expansion, but there’s no timeline set just yet. During an earnings call for the third quarter of Activision Blizzard’s current fiscal year, Mike Morhaime, Blizzard CEO said that an expansion is being planned and that there’s no time frame as to when it might be released.


Geoffrey Tim

Guild Wars 2’s Error 42

August 27, 2012 at 10:00 am | 38 Comments

Guild Wars 2 launched this weekend for those of you who pre-purchased the game - but as with most purely online games there have been a few connectivity issues. some players have reported not being able to login to the game after the latest patch, while others are having trouble accessing the online trading post, or switching to other worlds.


Geoffrey Tim

EA wants to avoid online issues with SimCity

July 14, 2012 at 10:00 am | 18 Comments

Diablo III, a predominantly single player game launched this year - with a perpetual online requirement - so you’d always have to be connected to the internet to play. It’s had more than its fair share of issues - leading many to be a little wary of games with similar requirements. One such game is the new SimCity reboot - but EA’s doing it all it can to prevent similar launch issues.


Geoffrey Tim

What’s the most played PC game?

July 12, 2012 at 12:15 pm | 33 Comments

If you’ve ever wondered just how popular free-to-play titles - the sort that hook you like a sample drug before knifing you in the kidneys for your money - wonder no more. According to data extracted from millions of X-fire accounts, the free-to-play DOTA clone League of Legends have proven itself to be more popular than you might imagine. In fact, it’s the most played game on the PC at the moment.


Geoffrey Tim

Blizzard admits Diablo III lacks longevity

July 5, 2012 at 9:00 am | 54 Comments

Despite its controversies, launch issues and silly online restrictions, Diablo III is a wonderful game, deserving of its success. However, pretty much any long-time Diablo player will tell you that it’s missing a spark; that little bit of magic that’s made Diablo II a favourite for over a decade. applying a dash of hindsight, Blizzard has admitted as much - and committed to working to change that.


Geoffrey Tim

A hell of a way to do a job interview

July 4, 2012 at 3:00 pm | 11 Comments

Job interviews suck. They’re stressful - and a terribly way to spend a Wednesday morning. It can be especially draining on gamers - whether they’re socially awkward, or just too damned busy trying to pilfer the remains of dead demons for loot. An advertising agency in Israel is catering to just that demographic - by conducting interviews for a programmer position through Blizzard’s Diablo III.


Geoffrey Tim

Blizzard’s restricted digital copies of Diablo III

June 22, 2012 at 11:30 am | 12 Comments

Diablo III is an incredible game, and it’s done remarkably well commercially too. Success! That success, however, is in spite of some of Blizzard’s silly decisions with the game - not least of which was the one to make the entire single player  online only. They’ve now put some bizarre restrictions on new digitally purchased versions of the game.


Geoffrey Tim

Diablo III cheaters getting the banhammer

June 12, 2012 at 10:00 am | 32 Comments

Diablo III requires a constant internet connection. The reason for that, says Blizzard, is because the game features a persistent economy, to stop cheaters and for no other purpose.

Recently the Asian servers were shut down after blizzard had discovered that sneaky Koreans were duplicating in-game items, and using bots to farm gold. Blizzards got some stern words for any of you thinking of doing the same thing.


Geoffrey Tim

Diablo III’s Real Money Auction House set for June

May 31, 2012 at 9:00 am | 35 Comments

When Diablo III was released earlier this month, it launched with one of its much-touted features missing; the ability to actually play it, because the servers were down.

Also missing was the Real Money Auction House - which would allow you to use actual cash to buy and sell in-game equipment.


Geoffrey Tim

FFD: Should sequels really try to innovate?

May 25, 2012 at 10:45 am | 25 Comments

In videogames, sequels to hit games are pretty much an inevitability. there’s a certain expectation that gamers have of sequels. To paraphrase Epic’s CliffyB, gamers expect sequels to be bigger, better and more badass. One the one hand, you have games like the annualised Call of Duty which is, without fail, criticised by many for being nothing more than a glorious exercise in the wonders of cut and paste. Even the incredible Starcraft II was lambasted by many for being too much like the first game, just with the application of a shiny coat of paint.

On the other, you have releases like Metroid Other M, Max Payne 3 and Diablo III - which while excellent games, have been blasted by some fans as straying too far from the established formula - and just not “feeling” like their predecessors.

If Max Payne 3 doesn’t feel like Max Payne, and Diablo III doesn’t feel like Diablo II, should the whiners then just go and play Max Payne I and Diablo II respectively - or should developers pander to fans, keeping things as they are - just updating them for newer hardware?

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