Every week of April, Blizzard was kicking ass in PC sales here in the States so it's no surprise that they'd have an equally solid showing for the monthly figures. Here are the top 20 sellers for the month of April, courtesy of the NPD:
Bashiok talks about larger inventory in the new Diablo II 1.13 content patch… read more what Bashiok writes.
BlizCon 2009 Live Streaming Video or DirectTV Pay Per View & Online Ticket Sales are a Perfect Combination. The 4th annual BlizzCon will be happening on August 21, 2009 and August 22, 2009 at Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. If you can make it in person than registere your Battle.net account early for the tickets going on sale on May 16, 2009 and another batch on May 30, 2009. The tickets are $125 each.
Bashiok answer in bluepost about Diablo 2 patch 1.13 release date and public test realm of the new Diablo II 1.13 content patch, before it goes live on battle.net
The Diablo 2 Patch 1.13 is just around the corner - reason why Blizzard reset ladder now.
Blizzard have just launched the first part of their new networking platform, Battle.net 2.0.
Blizzard is looking to invite one fan fiction writer from their three franchise communities to visit Blizzard headquarters, dine with the developers, meeting the lore-writing staff and receive a Frostmourne sword.
Blizzard's community manager for Diablo III has been posting on the official Diablo 3 forums today. Two questions popped up, one asking about the "focus like" item on the Wizards hand, which Bashiok reminded us is the offhand Orb.
Blizzard's community manager for Diablo III has made a post today asking players of Diablo 2 to make suggestions of what their number one change would be for Diablo 2, to include in the 1.13 patch notes.
This was just posted by Karune: Besides the Vespene Laughs contest where you can win Beta keys they are also starting more ways to gain StarCraft 2 beta keys. However, this should be interesting for fans of all franchises, as there is "more" involved.
Remember the color controversy? Its most enduring legacy, besides possibly spawning the concept of the D3 secret non-cow level, may turn out to be the "rainbows and unicorns" t-shirts the D3 Team wore at Blizzcon 2008. Those shirts were made custom for Blizzard, and have never (and will never) be offered for sale to the public.
This mod by BrotherLaz features new skill trees with 210 new skills, new base items, gems, runes, uniques, runewords, sets, crafting improved monster AI and new monster types, elite and heroic monsters 21+1 uberquests for advanced characters, and more.
It has recently surfaced that a Diablo III fan site has jumped to the conclusion that Blizzard has somehow "confirmed" Diablo III's release for 2010. This article is a rebuttal to such claims and attempts to set the story straight.
The Angry Pixel writes: "Alright, show of hands. How many of you out there suddenly developed the urge to reinstall Diablo II right after Blizzard revealed the series successor to the world during last summer of oh-eight. Yeah, that's what we thought. And as many of you already know, Blizzard can be quite the Mr. Fussy Pants when it comes to narrowing down release dates, so speculating on Diablo III's possible holy coming doesn't lend itself much to conversation. However shall we cope with this inexcusable wait!
From the article: "Don't get me wrong, sales data is great, and I always love pouring over the monthly NPD reports to see just how much more money Nintendo has managed to print; and when I hear that World of Warcraft has passed the 11.5 million subscriber mark, it certainly makes a mental impact. But the questions always remain: "When people bring that Nintendo Wii home, do they actually play it?" "Just how dedicated are these WoW players?"
Diii.net reports that there has been a misunderstanding growing among the Diablo community since Rob Pardo made a few comments on the game's progress in an interview at WWI 2008, which would imply that Blizzard have all the classes and most of the game ready to play in their office. The rumour has it that a lot of work is done on the game and that Blizzard is just keeping their great game back to spite the fans.
The IncGamers.com Diablo 3 network site, Diii.net compiles several comments made by Blizzard from different sources which summarize their plans:
Neocrisis: The Blizzard Music CD is called Echoes of War: The Music of Blizzard. The Legendary Edition has already been released and the normal edition will come out in a week and a half. will feature music from Warcraft III, World of Warcraft and its upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion, StarCraft and II, Diablo II and III, and even StarCraft: Ghost.
Kotaku writes: "Microsoft isn't the only one swinging the account crushing banhammer just before the holiday rush. Blizzard has suspended an impressive 350,000 Battle.net accounts identified as using "third-party hacks" in both StarCraft and Diablo II."