Diablo 4
By Three, They Come.By Three, Thy Way Opens.
By The Blood Of The Willing..
We Call Thee Home.
Hail Daughter of Hatred.
Creator of Sancutary.
Hail.. Lilith.
- Officially announced and a trailer was dropped right out of the gate..
- Darkness.
- Art, story, horror elements, all going back to the franchise's darker roots. Blood, gore, ouccullt symbols. Victories are going to be a challenge, no guarantees.
- World.
- We've never seen the world of Sanctuary in a wide view. Every zone and every monstter is going to represent what Sanctuary actually is. Even the depths of Hell. Group play confirmed, from player trading to PvP zones.
- Legacy.
- Diablo 1's Sense of Dread. Diablo 2's Class Lineup. Diablo 3's Visceral Combat. All come together in Diablo 4 for a game that the dev team sees as the Diablo game fans have really been waiting for. PC, PS4, and Xbox One release.
- The first three confirmed classes are:
- The Barbarian.
- The Sorceress.
- The Druid.
- Mounted travel confirmed in the gameplay trailer that is very fluid into entering combat.
- They didn't want to announce Diablo 4 without a playable demo on the floor to really showcase the darker Sanctuary.
- I will be doing a post entirely around Diablo 4 after Blizzcon is over and we have all of the information we can from the official source.
Starcraft 2
- DeepMind AI available to play against those AI Agents at Blizzcon.
- Arcturus Mengsk coming later this month as the newest co-op commander.
Heroes of the Storm
- Deathwing officially unveiled.
- Most requested hero of all-time.
- Two forms with two different sets of abilitties.
- Blizzcon/Virtual Ticket holders get Deathwing for free.
- All Heroes avaialble for free until November 10th.
Warcraft 3: Reforged
- Beta recently started.
- All Blizzcon/Virtual Ticket holders get free Beta access.
- Release date announcement Soon.
World of Warcraft
- Classic: "You think that you want this, and I think that you do."
- Classic: Phase 2 opens its gates to World Bosses and the PvP Honor system on Novemvber 12th.
- Make-A-Wish Foundation and We.Org Charity Pet, Dotty the Baby Alpaca, hits the Blizzard Store in December.
- All proceeds from Dotty through the end of 2019 go towards those two charities.
- Anniversary event officially launches on November 5th in Retail WoW.
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
- Trailer explains Bolvar's blue eyes.
- "There must always be a Lich King."
- "In the end, Death comes for us all."
- Pre-orders available now on tthe Blizzard Store for a 2020 release date.
- I will be doing an in-depth guide to this and not attempt to fit it all into just this one blog post.
- There is a lot to go over. From new zones, to new "factions", to new raids and dungeons, abilitiy unpruning, etc, etc.
Hearthstone
- Rise of Shadows - Introduction of the League of Evil.
- Saviors of Uldum - Introduction of the League of Explorers.
- The tale comes to its stunning conclusion in Dragonblight as the two Leagues meet each other for their final confrontation.
- Descent of Dragons brings the Year of the Dragon to a close.
- So many Dragons. More dragons than ever before.
- Galakrond, the Nightmare: The newest Hero card.
- Invoke is the newest key word and mechanic.
- Galakrond, the Apocalypse: The invoked version of this Hero.
- Galakrond, Azeroth's End: The final form of this Hero.
- Five free Legendary Heroes for those who associated with the League of Evil as soon as the expansion drops.
- Ysera, Unleashed for the League of Explorers.
- Every class will get their own Legendary Dragon.
- Pre-purchase begins today for Descent of Dragons.
- Hearthstone: Battlegrounds. 8 player auto-battle mode.
- Open Beta starts November 12th.
- Blizzcon/Virtual Ticket holders and pre-purchasers of Descent of Dragons get access come November 5th.
Overwatch 2
- Updated version of the game engine.
- Story Missions
- Hero Missions
- Highly replayable cooperative missions.
- Level up your favorite hero to play YOUR way/
- New PvP Mode: Push
- "I AM GOOD AT PUSHING THINGS."
- Sojorn, the first Canadian Hero, joins the lineup.
- Will launch with multiple new heroes.
- Toronto, the first Canadian map, and the first map for Push.
- As well as multiple other maps to join the map list.
- More story and cooperative PvE.
- Tons of PvE content.
- Complete story experience.
- What does a sequel mean to me as a player?
- Sequels make gamers nervous.
- All original Overwatch players, will get all the same maps and new maps that come to Overwatch 2.
- All original heroes and all the new heroes coming in Overwatch 2 are playable in the original Overwatch.
- All cosmetics from Overwatch will transfer over to Overwatch 2, all progress follows you, no one is getting left behind.
- If there's enough information shown off, I will do a full post dedicated to Overwatch 2.
