{"id":44083,"date":"2018-09-01T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/diablo_iii_on_switch_will_include_amiibo_support_according_to_blizzard_developer"},"modified":"2018-09-01T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T02:30:00","slug":"diablo-iii-on-switch-will-include-amiibo-support-according-to-blizzard-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/01\/diablo-iii-on-switch-will-include-amiibo-support-according-to-blizzard-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo III On Switch Will Include amiibo Support, According To Blizzard Developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/651be1d82c242\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/651be1d82c242\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Crusader Diablo\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/651be1d82c242\/crusader-diablo.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/651be1d82c242\/crusader-diablo.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Crusader Diablo\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When Blizzard <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/diablo_iii_eternal_collection_officially_announced_for_nintendo_switch\">revealed<\/a> the\u00a0<strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/diablo_iii_eternal_collection\">Diablo III Eternal Collection<\/a><\/strong> was Switch-bound, the focus was predominantly on the title\u2019s performance, online features, and <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/links_gear_wont_be_in_the_nintendo_switch_version_of_diablo_iii\">exclusive<\/a> in-game content. Surprisingly, there was no mention of amiibo functionality.<\/p>\n<p>No need to worry, though, as a Blizzard developer at this year\u2019s PAX West has <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/article\/107021\/diablo-3-on-nintendo-switch-will-have-amiibo-support\">reportedly<\/a> confirmed the Switch version of Diablo III will include support for Nintendo\u2019s popular toys-to-life figurines. Unfortunately, no other information about this feature was provided.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now got us wondering if Blizzard would ever consider its own Diablo-themed amiibo\u00a0&#8211; much like the <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/deals_praise_the_sun_you_can_now_pre-order_the_dark_souls_solaire_amiibo\">Dark Souls<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/shovel_knight\">Shovel Knight<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0amiibo.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Amiibo\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a8410abca18b5\/amiibo.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a8410abca18b5\/amiibo.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Amiibo\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Are you glad to hear your amiibo\u00a0collection will be supported in Diablo III when it arrives on the Switch later this year? Would you like to see exclusive Diablo-themed\u00a0amiibo? Tell us below. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Blizzard revealed the\u00a0Diablo III Eternal Collection was Switch-bound, the focus was predominantly on the title\u2019s performance, online features, and exclusive in-game content. Surprisingly, there was no mention of amiibo functionality. No need to worry, though, as a Blizzard developer at this year\u2019s PAX West has reportedly confirmed the Switch version of Diablo III will [&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-44083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44083","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=44083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}