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Diablo 3 patches incoming: “we’re planning to just straight-out buff...
An illuminating blog post on Battle.net outlines a number of significant changes that will be made to Diablo 3 in the coming weeks. An imminent client patch is set to fix a number of “service issues,”...
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Blizzard offices raided over Diablo 3 refund policy after Error 37 strikes...
It seems like the start of a joke, “Did you hear about the company whose DRM was so bad it’s illegal?” There’s a sour punchline for Blizzard. Tim sends word of a report in the Korea Times stating that...
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Diablo 3 patch 1.0.2.b smooths out auction house transactions, fixes...
The game changed when I dipped into Diablo 3′s auction house for the first time recently. I was staunchly determined to make it through to Inferno on my own loot finds alone, but the challenge was...
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Diablo 3 hotfix removes monster damage boost in co-op, Inferno teams breathe...
Blizzard hotfixed in a significant change to Diablo 3 multiplayer over the weekend. Previously monster health and damage would stack depending on the number of players in the game, now Blizzard have...
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Diablo 3 real money auction house “expected” to go live in Europe this Friday
Get your Euros, Pounds and Rubles ready, folks. Diablo 3′s real money auction house will finally go live this Friday according to an in-game notification spotted by Eurogamer. The US real money...
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Diablo 3 72 hour level cap is a bug, fix incoming, other restrictions still...
Blizzard have sent a statement to Kotaku following up on yesterday’s news that those buying the Diablo 3 digital edition find themselves limited to a starter edition of the game for up to 72 hours....
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Diablo 3 digital edition restrictions relaxed
Opting for the digital edition of Diablo 3 will no longer place a temporary cap on your progress through the game, Blizzard has announced. Players buying the game on Battle.net post patch 1.0.3 were...
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Bioware announce free to play Ultima Forever, beta sign-ups live
Ultima Forever is a new free to play, cross platform action RPG from Bioware based, at least tangentially, on the classic Ultima RPG seies. You’ll be able to take control of the fighter or the mage...
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Diablo 3 real money auction house gets gold trading, game guide explains...
The Diablo 3 real money auction house has been updated to let people buy and sell in-game gold for real money. Gold can be shifted in packets of 100,000 for as little as 27p / 41c. Gems, dyes,...
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Diablo 3 always-online requirement “critical” to D3′s “long-term integrity”...
Blizzard co-founder and president Mike Morhaime has posted a lengthy statement on Diablo 3 on the Battle.net forums to explain some of the reasoning behind Diablo 3′s always-online requirement and the...
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Diablo 3 exploit makes Wizards immortal
Diablo 3 players have discovered an exploit that apparently renders Wizards invulnerable forever. Kotaku spotted a note on the Blizzard forums describes how triggering two skills in quick succession...
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Diablo 3 invulnerable wizard exploit hotfix arrives
Blizzard have hotfixed Diablo 3 to squash the invincible Wizard exploit that went public yesterday. “We will continue to carefully monitor this issue and welcome anyone with information about bugs or...
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Diablo 3 patch 1.0.4 to make Diablo 3 easier, reduce repair costs, improve items
Blizzard have been sketching out their plans for the important 1.0.4 patch for Diablo 3 over on Battle.Net. The update aims to rebalance the difficulty of the action RPG’s toughest sections and give...
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Diablo 3 Starter Edition now available, play for free up to level 13
Those yet to dip their toes in Diablo 3′s lava pools can now try the game for free via the Diablo 3 Starter Edition. The demo is available now exclusively through Available exclusively through...
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Diablo 3 1.04 update to make Legendary items Legendarier with extra abilities
Diablo 3′s 1.04 patch is just on the blood-drenched horizon, and it’s bringing a host of player feedback-driven changes. Among the most notable of these is a massive overhaul to the stats and graphics...
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Torchlight 2 release date announced, it’s out in three weeks
“The official Release Date for Torchlight II is Thursday, September 20th, 2012″ writes studio head Travis Baldree on the Runic forums, kindling a flame of hope in the souls of disgruntled Diablo 3...
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Dark Souls director ponders easy mode, wants survival to be “satisfying...
Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki has been weighing up the pros and cons of an easy mode for From Software’s rock solid RPG, Dark Souls. Dark Souls aficionados love that difficulty, they CRAVE it....
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Diablo 3 Monster Power mode to give players “a lot more control over the...
Monster Power mode was teased in a recent Diablo 3 blog post detailing planned changes to be included in the upcoming 1.05 patch. Blizzard have likened it to Diablo 2′s “players 8″ setting, which...
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Diablo 3 patch 1.05 notes detail Monster Power, Infernal Machine, class and...
Patch notes for the Public Test Realm edition of Diablo 3 patch 1.05 have appeared on the Battle.net forums, with more details on the big Monster Power and Infernal Machine updates heading our way....
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Torchlight 2 demo out now, Runic explain budget pricing: “we want a bigger...
Torchlight 2 is out! If you’re uncertain as to whether you ought to splash $20 on Runic’s charming new action RPG, you can download a demo now from the Torchlight 2 site. But why is Torchlight 2 so...
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Torchlight 2 class guide
Torchlight 2 was released yesterday. But before you sentence thousands of monsters to death by mouse click, and smash enough urns to embarrass a bull in a china breaking tournament, there’s the small...
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Krater to get free co-op DLC this month
Krater is a squad-based action RPG set in post-apocalyptic Sweden. You have to guide your band of mercs into the heart of a cataclysmic scar and loot the hell out of it. But why loot alone? Fatshark...
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Diablo 3 update 1.05 lands tomorrow, Infernal Machine and Monster Power mode...
Patch 1.05 will hit Diablo 3 tomorrow at 3AM PDT / 2AM BST according to an official post on Blizzard’s forums. There will be an estimated ten hours of downtime while the patch is deployed, but once...
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Apotheon is an action RPG with a staggering art style, as seen in new...
You might know Alientrap Games for their extra-terrestrial platformer Capsized, which we liked 86% of last year. But did you know that their current project is the ambitious Apotheon, a sidescrolling...
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Editorial: How Diablo 3′s endgame has failed
Tom Senior, News Editor Diablo 3 is a conflicted beast, like a zebra that thinks it’s a unicorn. I love it. I hate it. I’ve been playing it a lot recently to try and find out why. Is it an action RPG,...
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Torchlight 2 patch adds owls and badgers
Yesterday’s patch for Torchlight 2 has added a couple of new critters to the pet roster. An angry badger and a noble owl can tag along to help you in combat and sell off unwanted loot in town, which...
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Diablo 3 account bans issued to “several thousand” players using bots
It’s a bad month to be a bot. First Guild Wars 2′s struck a “decisive blow” in the name of humanity, banishing 34,000 bots from Tyria. Now Blizzard are sending the autonomous avatars straight to hell,...
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Diablo 3 1.0.7 update to add dueling, extra gems, rare crafting recipes and more
I wonder how many people there are still playing Diablo 3. And I wonder how many people there are who haven’t played it for ages, but fancy getting back into it. As persuading factors go, the ability...
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Legend of Grimrock sells over 600,000 copies, devs tease future content
Almost Human, developers of Legend of Grimrock, have shared details on the performance of their Dungeon Master inspired RPG. According to their 2012 recap post, the game racked up over 600,000 sales...
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Diablo III Director’s departure prompts community ire, Blizzard’s Rob Pardo...
When Diablo III’s director, Jay Wilson, announced he was leaving the game’s team to work on another unspecified Blizzard project, the community’s reaction was intense. While many expressed gratitude...
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Chasm is a stunning sidescrolling Action-RPG set, you guessed it, in a mine
You probably think you’ve maxed out on procedurally generated RPGs set in dank subterranean environments, but boy are you dead wrong. Also: you’re dead, because you just stepped on a trap plate, you...
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Diablo 3 patch 1.07 adds brawling, buffer monks, better wizards, new...
Diablo 3′s PvP mode is finally here. The team deathmatch mode was dropped a while back, and the free for all “duels” are now “brawls,” whatever they’re called, you can do them now in the Scorched...
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Bastion devs reveal action RPG Transistor – and yes, Logan ‘Rucks’ Cunningham...
Supergiant – that’s the developers of the fantastic Bastion, and not some sort of king of the giants – have announced their next game. It’s called Transistor, it looks fab, and Logan Cunningham (the...
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Gorgeous action RPG Dust: An Elysian Tail heading to PC, sequel may be on the...
Anthropomorphic XBLA sidescroller Dust: An Elysian Tail is coming to PC, and to Steam, possibly as early as April. It’s an action RPG featuring an all-animal cast, and it’s a pretty spectacularly...
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Dark Souls II will focus on “freedom” and “accessibility,” looks gorgeous
With the reveal of some gorgeous screenshots of Dark Souls II and a glimpse of its masochistic gameplay yesterday, there’s been quite a bit of buzz about From Software’s brutal action-RPG. Last week,...
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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing shows off Katarina, your ghostly...
It must be quite handy having a ghost companion, a fact that Jeff Randall – of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) fame – knows only too well. As it turns out, legendary vampire hunter (well, son of a...
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Indie RPG Chasm leaps over Kickstarter goal
I couldn’t be more delighted with the news that the promising Chasm has met its Kickstarter target – and not just because it gave me an excuse to use that exciting headline. OK, so it’s mostly that,...
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Techland releases teaser trailer for Hellraid, shows off skeletons,...
Last week, Techland announced its new game, Hellraid, with a few screenshots and some promises. This week, though, they’ve got a teaser trailer full of gameplay that backs up some of those promises,...
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Diablo 3′s auction houses back in bidness, gold-duping exploit now fixed
Blizzard announced yesterday that Diablo 3′s auction houses had been put back online, after a gold-duplication exploit introduced by a recent patch caused them to temporarily shut up shop. The bug has...
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Krieg the Psycho is literally on fire in this Borderlands 2 DLC footage
I’ve never considered ‘being on fire’ to be a particularly useful skill, but after seeing the following video I’m coming around to the idea that the fire department might be part of some great...
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Marvel Heroes hands-on: punch Hulk armies in Gazillion’s free-to-play MMO...
This article was originally published in PC Gamer UK issue 252. Marvel Heroes embraces an idea that has been kryptonite to other superhero-themed MMOs: it lets players take control of its iconic...
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Diablo 3 gets a new game director
Diablo 3 ‘s new game director, Josh Mosqueira, got his start at Blizzard working to convert the popular and controversial action-RPG for console play, according to a new blog post. Mosqueira writes...
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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II announced, imports hero from...
It’s only been out of the cold, dead ground for a few weeks, but The Incredible Adventures of Van Wilder Helsing Party Liaison (monster hunter) has already earned itself a sequel. The follow-up to the...
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Tom Clancy’s The Division devs are “not ruling out any platforms for the future”
Tom Clancy’s The Division developers Massive are keeping their options open for future expansion beyond the announced Xbone and PS4 versions. They’re currently “optimizing the experience for next gen...
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Path of Exile announces third season of signature events, including brand new...
Still-in-development action RPG Path of Exile is known for its race leagues and signature events, special tournament versions of the game where players build new characters and race through the game...
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Dust: An Elysian Tail review
Review by Jon Morcom Anthropomorphic animals can be a divisive fictional device. But if we can accept cities floating in the sky and assassins who can blink themselves across high rooftops, it...
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Marvel Heroes review
Comics are a simple combination of ideas that result in something varied and complex. The many possible permutations of image and text provide a huge amount of freedom for creative people to express...
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The Dark Eye: Demonicon gets a new, late-October release date
The Dark Eye: Demonicon should unleash its ruthlessly-forged fantasy world in late October, according to a new press release from publisher Kalypso Media. Previously slated to surface sometime during...
View ArticleLords of the Fallen gets a debut trailer at Gamescom
City Interactive’s newly announced action RPG, Lords of the Fallen, reared its haggard, tattooed face at Gamescom today, but unfortunately that face was caked with a layer of CGI makeup. While the...
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Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls announced – expansion adds new class, zone, enemies
Blizzard announced Diablo 3′s first expansion today at Gamescom. It’s called Reaper of Souls after its new baddie, Maltheal, the fallen angel of wisdom who’s launched a late career change and become...
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