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• You’ll Fight The Protoss In StarCraft, Too, Don’t Worry

  13-09-2026 22:24 via gamespot.com
  
  StarCraft's reveal trailer squarely put the focus on the Terrans, who later in the cinematic face a terrifying confrontation with the Zerg. The franchise's three franchises--including the Protoss--have always been a central element of what distinguishes StarCraft from other strategy games. Although the Protoss were effectively absent from the trailer, they are a foe you will face at some point.GameSpot spoke with GM and creative director Dan Hay at BlizzCon and asked him about how the three fact
  
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• "Almost all of Diablo 1" has been recreated in a new Diablo 4 activity taking you from Tristram Cathedral all the way down to Hell

  13-09-2026 22:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Diablo, Diablo 4's 15th season, Season of Hell's Legacy, is a fitting celebration of the action RPG series' entire history, going all the way back to the very first game from 1996.Blizzard's Diablo team spent the majority of their time on stage at BlizzCon 2026 talking about the past and the future in almost equal parts. Whenever Diablo 4 was the talking topic, Blizzard waxed nostalgic for beloved games like Diablo 1 and 2, and to a slightly lesser degree,
  
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• The StarCraft Shooter Is A Third-Person Game, And Blizzard Insists That You Have To Feel “Powerful”

  13-09-2026 22:02 via gamespot.com
  
  If you walked away from the StarCraft reveal excited for the franchise to return, but unsure what this new game even is, you're not alone. Aside from being described during the BlizzCon Opening Ceremony as an open-world shooter, Blizzard didn't share much else. In an interview with GameSpot, Blizzard GM Dan Hay provided a few more details, including the fact that it's a third-person game.The StarCraft franchise, having taken the form of real-time strategy games previously, has typically used an
  
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• StarCraft Reboot Is “Focusing On Single-Player,” Creative Director Says

  13-09-2026 22:00 via gamespot.com
  
  StarCraft is "focusing on single-player," StarCraft creative director and general manager Dan Hay and associate manager of development operations Anna Lee Hertling said in an interview with GameSpot.One of the biggest announcements of BlizzCon 2026 was the return of StarCraft, described as an open-world shooter and slated for a 2030 release. Aside from its impressive reveal cinematic, there wasn't much additional information about how StarCraft would play or what the shooter reboot of the RTS fr
  
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• Blizzard Explains Why The StarCraft Shooter Coming In 2030 Was Announced Now

  13-09-2026 21:40 via gamespot.com
  
  Thanks to rumors and reports, the announcement of a new StarCraft game taking the form of an open-world shooter did not come as a complete surprise at BlizzCon's Opening Ceremony. What is surprising is when it's coming: 2030. That's a long time from now, and we've heard other developers lament announcing their games too soon. So what made Blizzard reveal StarCraft so far in advance?"We totally get the question. You walk that kind of knife's edge of how much do we want to show, when do we want to
  
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• Rockstar wants GTA 6's Jason and Lucia to inspire the same sort of "emotional connection" that Red Dead Redemption 2 fans had with Arthur

  13-09-2026 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rockstar wants people to love GTA 6's Jason and Lucia just as much as they did with Red Dead Redemption 2 protagonist Arthur Morgan. Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan is one of the most beloved video game protagonists of all-time. Even as someone who did not completely love it as a game at times – I often describe it as the game I love that I hate the most – Arthur was a character that really stuck with me and remains one of my all-time favorites years later. And while Rockstar h
  
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• BioWare crunched "21 days on, one day off" making Mass Effect, says former dev: "That was really, really hard, but really worth it"

  13-09-2026 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  A former BioWare lead says Mass Effect's development was built on a ton of impossible goals and massive ambition.Speaking to FRVR, Mass Effect cinematic designer Armando Troisi spoke about game director Casey Hudson, recounting, "He would put these impossible goals in front of us," adding, "He was just like, 'okay, this is what we need to do, right?'" He adds that around the studio, Hudson was known as the "troublemaker in chief," an approach that clearly worked, as the game was ultimately laude
  
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• Diablo 4’s Expansion Days Are Over

  13-09-2026 17:25 via gamespot.com
  
  Diablo 4 won't receive more expansions moving forward, as Blizzard shifts its focus to the newly revealed Diablo 5 instead.As revealed during BlizzCon 2026's opening ceremony, Diablo 5 is slated to be coming in Spring 2029 and is set 100 years after Diablo 4 in a world where the titular Lord of Terror reigns supreme. In an interview with PC Gamer, Diablo game director Brent Gibson said there were no plans for additional Diablo 4 expansions, as the team is instead "focused on seasons [for Diablo
  
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• Diablo 5’s Revealed Classes Are Throwbacks To Diablo 3, With One Exception

  13-09-2026 17:02 via gamespot.com
  
  Diablo 5 isn't coming until Spring 2029, but Blizzard has already revealed three of the game's playable classes.Two of them will be familiar to Diablo 3 fans: the Monk and Demon Hunter. The third will be an all-new class, the Plague Knight. The Plague Knight sounds similar to Death Knights from Blizzard's other fantasy franchise and are described as "walking death" that spread disease and pestilence wherever they go, then consume it to increase their power. Blizzard revealed plenty of new d
  
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• Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's Knights of the Round boss battle wasn't hard enough, so the devs had an "emergency meeting" to rebuild the iconic summon "from scratch"

  13-09-2026 16:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Final Fantasy 7 Revelation team had to have an "emergency meeting" to rebuild Knights of the Round and turn the iconic summon into a boss battle worthy of their legacy. Square Enix's first pass apparently didn't kick enough butt.Final Fantasy 7's Knights of the Round materia is legendary - it's easily one of the series' most powerful summons and merely unlocking them is the 1997 game's toughest, most convoluted challenge. No, I don't want to spend hours taming and breeding chocobos, please.W
  
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• After announcing StarCraft and Diablo 5 years in advance, Blizzard president promises "to ship, and ship big, and ship on time"

  13-09-2026 16:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  BlizzCon 2026 is well underway, but some of the show's biggest announcements aren't due to come out for years. StarCraft's debut trailer ended with a 2030 release window attached. Diablo 5's reveal similarly included a 2029 promise - a strange move for a publisher as big as Blizzard Entertainment. Big game announcements nowadays don't specify a release year unless the project is close to the finish line, usually, since game production can be complicated and unpredictable. Promising fans a releas
  
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• The Depths is the best part of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and it's the epitome of everything Zelda as a series has been building to

  13-09-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda is a video game as ritual. It's enlivened by ingenious variations from one game to the next, but Nintendo's adventures in the land of Hyrule remain absorbed in the pleasures of careful repetition. These games are curated as much as they are designed; they're gardens rather than wildernesses. And so, at the end of Breath of the Wild, the hero in green defeats Ganon, as he always does. But wait. This is not quite accurate. At the end of Breath of the Wild - delivered via DLC -
  
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• After countless memes, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation boss confirms that, yes, Fortnite partly inspired jumping out of the Highwind

  13-09-2026 14:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  After it was memed from the moment the game was announced, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed that jumping out of the Highwind Fortnite-style was indeed inspired by Fortnite, though only partly.The Highwind is set to be the central mechanic of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation. The massive airship that transports the party around was a big part of the original RPG, but in the era of realism and immersion, you can't simply drop to the ground and teleport out of the ship as
  
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• Former Far Cry boss says it's "an honor" to take over StarCraft: "We won the cosmic lottery"

  13-09-2026 13:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  All the rumors were true - well, some of them were. StarCraft is finally making a return, but this time as an open-world shooter led by a developer who knows a thing or two about the genre. Former Far Cry boss Dan Hay is in charge of the project, and he told us he's taking the "honor" of bringing back the series "very seriously.""It is an honor," Hay says in an interview with GamesRadar+ at BlizzCon 2026. "We take that very seriously. It's an honor. You get a chance to work on something that so
  
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• Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred is the game's final expansion as Blizzard focuses on "getting to Diablo 5"

  13-09-2026 13:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Diablo 5 on the horizon, Blizzard Entertainment doesn't have plans for any new Diablo 4 expansions.Last night's BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony brought rare good news for the permanently dark and dour world of Diablo. The fantasy series is officially getting an animated Netflix show, Diablo himself is finally coming to Diablo 4, and - surprise - Diablo 5 is set to come out sometime in 2029. But with so much going on in the world of Sanctuary, don't expect any new expansions for Diablo 4. Spe
  
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• Diablo 4 Season 15 Belial, Mephisto, Diablo, Baal and Moophisto Gameplay

  13-09-2026 03:30 via gamespot.com
  
  We got our hand on Season 15 of Diablo 4 early and take on the 3 prime evils as well as a new Moophisto boss!
  
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• StarCraft's 2030 release is proof "we're serious," says project lead and former Far Cry boss, and it's "a date that we feel really confident about"

  13-09-2026 02:23 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well, folks, there's a new StarCraft on the way. We've had an inkling about there being a new entry in the series thanks to rumors that have been circulating for weeks now, but during BlizzCon 2026's Opening Ceremony, the project was confirmed. It's an open-world shooter, former Far Cry boss Dan Hay is in charge alongside associate director AnaLee Haertling, and it's coming out in 2030. Yes, 2030.I had the chance to sit down with Hay and Haertling after the announcement, and one of the first thi
  
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• Diablo 5's first confirmed classes are the Demon Hunter, Monk, and the all-new Plague Knight: Blizzard says the sequel has "more classes than ever before"

  13-09-2026 00:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Blizzard has unveiled the first officially confirmed Diablo 5 classes, and they include a brand new class that's never been included in a Diablo game before: the Plague Knight, which sounds deliciously morbid in a way that's definitively Diablo.ICYMI, Diablo 5! Yes, Diablo 5 was revealed in a surprise announcement during BlizzCon 2026. Although the game is still early in development and isn't due out until 2029, Blizzard dropped a surprising amount of details about the upcoming action RPG in a f
  
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