⚡️Blizzard in the '90s SAVED the devs behind Diablo from collapse, without that rescue the franchise might never have launched.

Independent studio Condor was drowning in debts and facing tax shutdowns, so Blizzard offered more than funding: a full merger. Reborn as Blizzard North, the team stretched a shoestring $500,000 budget into a breakthrough released in 1997, an action‑RPG benchmark that set the stage for a legendary sequel...

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Steam rating for Diablo 4 slid to mixed as players push back against aggressive monetization, pricey cosmetic bundles and blatant FOMO tactics 😤

Despite the Lord of Hatred expansion doing well and praise for technical fixes and seasonal updates, anger over old content being handed to new buyers and the game's economy drags the score down. Paradoxically, peak online topped 64k concurrent users, while Blizzard focuses on gamepla...

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👀 INFbuilds flooded the Tower leaderboard in Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred, same nickname occupying the top spots.

It's not a single superplayer but a squad from portal InfinityBuilds led by streamer Mekuna. Their PROMO is simple: prove the guides work by clearing the toughest content at 150-level difficulty with mathematically tuned builds. Blizzard is watching for fair play, while InfinityBuilds treats leaderboards as a live...

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Blizzard quietly slid an AUTOBATTLE into Diablo Immortal: characters over 60 can now clear zones on their own, but it's less effective than manual play 😒

Sessions are limited to 1 hour with a 24-hour weekly cap. The patch adds difficulty Inferno XII with new legendary affixes, tweaks PvP so teams can pick a captain, merges servers for better matchmaking and kicks off a new Trials season.

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Former Nintendo Of America President Warns Devs That Companies Doing Mass Layoffs Is ‘A Red Flag’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://kotaku.com/nintendo-of-america-former-president-companies-mass-layoffs-red-flag-2000693008

🚀 Tati Gabrielle is genuinely hyped for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, she says Naughty Dog are showing a very different side. WOW

In an IGN chat she revealed she'd seen work-in-progress material and was «completely thrilled»: devs deliberately crafted an atypical sci‑fi world that breaks studio norms. The game debuted at TGA 2024; Tony Dalton joined in May 2025, and ex‑Blizzard cinematic lead Jason Hill...

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⚡️Blizzard GAVE UP: Warcraft III quietly returned to Battle.net, 6 years after the disaster that was Reforged.
A new entry called Legacy TFT 1.29 is available in the version menu, but IMPORTANT: it's strictly for offline or LAN play. Devs admit this is a compromise to appease fans who begged for the classic, old‑school build.

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🔥 Mekuna cleared Torment 12 in Diablo 4 (expansion Lord of Hatred) in 17 hours, an impressive solo run, but the streamer says he's disappointed.

He claims Blizzard marketed T12 as an "unbeatable" weeks-long grind, while in practice a well-geared player did it in a day; the split between casuals and the HARDCORE crowd is widening, and the debate about Diablo 4's lack of truly ambitious endgame is back, viewers counter that for a reg...

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Blizzard quietly fixed a bug in Overwatch that could cost you the match, the notorious jump bug.

It made heroes literally slide off platforms at the worst possible moment (often when you opened the scoreboard), costing positions and sometimes the whole round. The patch is live, so matches should stop turning into a FARCE. 😑

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