{"id":103025,"date":"2019-11-01T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/353266"},"modified":"2019-11-01T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:34:00","slug":"blizzard-confirms-diablo-iv-is-coming-to-consoles-and-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/blizzard-confirms-diablo-iv-is-coming-to-consoles-and-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard confirms Diablo IV is coming to consoles and PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/353264\/Blizzard_president_J_Allen_Brack_apologizes_for_bungled_Hearthstone_punishment.php\">brief apology<\/a>&nbsp;at BlizzCon today for bungling its handling of&nbsp;<em>Hearthstone&nbsp;<\/em>pro Blitzchung&#8217;s&nbsp;message of support for Hong Kong protestors, Blizzard has confirmed it&#8217;s working on&nbsp;<em>Diablo IV&nbsp;<\/em>for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Blizzard accompanied the announcement with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9bRWIdOMfro\">CGI trailer<\/a> and a message which emphasized returning to the series&#8217; &#8220;dark&#8221; roots, presumably a reference to some of the public grousing over the visual vibrancy of&nbsp;<em>Diablo III&nbsp;<\/em>following its initial 2008 announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard gave no firm release date for&nbsp;<em>Diablo IV<\/em>, but did note that a playable demo is on the floor at BlizzCon this weekend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a brief apology&nbsp;at BlizzCon today for bungling its handling of&nbsp;Hearthstone&nbsp;pro Blitzchung&#8217;s&nbsp;message of support for Hong Kong protestors, Blizzard has confirmed it&#8217;s working on&nbsp;Diablo IV&nbsp;for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. Notably, Blizzard accompanied the announcement with a CGI trailer and a message which emphasized returning to the series&#8217; &#8220;dark&#8221; roots, presumably a reference to some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}