{"id":14379,"date":"2018-03-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/sounds_like_blizzard_really_is_porting_diablo_3_to_switch_even_though_it_said_it_wasnt"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:00:00","slug":"sounds-like-blizzard-really-is-porting-diablo-3-to-switch-even-though-it-said-it-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/06\/sounds-like-blizzard-really-is-porting-diablo-3-to-switch-even-though-it-said-it-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds Like Blizzard Really Is Porting Diablo 3 To Switch (Even Though It Said It Wasn&#8217;t)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news3.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/sounds_like_blizzard_really_is_porting_diablo_3_to_switch_even_though_it_said_it_wasnt\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/sounds_like_blizzard_really_is_porting_diablo_3_to_switch_even_though_it_said_it_wasnt\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ah, the ol&#8217; rumour merry go round. One minute we&#8217;re wondering whether a game will be coming to Nintendo Switch, only for the developer to flat out deny the rumours. Then reliable sources confirm said game really is coming to the console. What a mess.<\/p>\n<p>So the game is question is <strong>Diablo 3<\/strong> &#8211; yes, that almost six-year-old dungeon crawler from Blizzard &#8211; and following on from a cute tease that saw a video with a Diablo-shaped nightlight being &#8216;switched&#8217; on and off (and the subsequent official response that quashed the rumours that rose from it) it turns out the game really <em>is<\/em> on its way to Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sweet dreams. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tZvCnjjzWb\">pic.twitter.com\/tZvCnjjzWb<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Blizzard Entertainment (@Blizzard_Ent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blizzard_Ent\/status\/968727468675809280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>According to Eurogamer, sources close to the project confirmed the rumour to be true, but weren&#8217;t able to confirm if the port will include the <strong>Reaper Of Souls<\/strong> and <strong>Rise Of The Necromancer<\/strong> expansions that were released in the intervening years.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s not <em>official<\/em> official just yet, but EG&#8217;s sources tend to be pretty spot on, so best make space on your Switch for this one (unless you&#8217;ve played it to death on myriad other platforms). Let us know what you make of the news below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the ol&#8217; rumour merry go round. One minute we&#8217;re wondering whether a game will be coming to Nintendo Switch, only for the developer to flat out deny the rumours. Then reliable sources confirm said game really is coming to the console. What a mess. So the game is question is Diablo 3 &#8211; yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379","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=14379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}