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BuckGB
April 22, 2010

Bill Roper Interviews

Fresh off his promotion to chief creative officer of Cryptic Studios, long-time video game producer Bill Roper has taken the time to answer a variety of different questions about his time in the industry for both Ten Ton Hammer and…

BuckGB
April 21, 2010

How CRPGs Warped My Brain, Part Four

Tales of the Rampant Coyote’s Jay Barnson once again summarizes what he’s learned from several CRPGs, though this time most of the games he profiles are somewhat recent. Fallout, Fallout 2, Baldur’s Gate II, Vampire: Redemption, Vampire: Bloodlines, Wizardry 8,…

BuckGB
April 21, 2010

320,000 Cheaters Banned From Battle.net

Apparently a lot of people have forgotten that there are consequences to hacking your way to victory in Diablo II and Warcraft III, as over 300,000 such cheaters have been targetted with Blizzard’s Wand of Banning. We’ve recently banned over…

BuckGB
April 20, 2010

Battle.net 2.0 Preview

After spending some time with the StarCraft II beta, the editors at Ten Ton Hammer have put together a short preview of the enhancements and changes headed our way in revision 2.0 of Blizzard’s popular multiplayer service, Battle.net. The Diablo…

BuckGB
April 1, 2010

Blizzard Entertainment: April Fools’ 2010

Blizzard Entertainment continues their usual April Fools’ tradition by announcing Diablo III Body Pillows, the Deckard Cain X-Treme Gamer Blanket, the Deckard Cain GPS Voice Pack, a Battle.net neural interface, equipment potency equivalance numbers for World of Warcraft, and Blackthorne…

BuckGB
March 25, 2010

BlizzCon 2010 Announced

Blizzard Entertainment sent out a press release today announcing plans to host a fifth BlizzCon event at the Anaheim Convention Center this October. Panel discussions, tournaments, hands-on gaming sessions, and most likely an announcement or two for those of you who plan…

BuckGB
March 13, 2010

Blizzard’s Core Game Design Concepts

Gamasutra has put together a summary of the panel discussion that Blizzard’s Rob Pardo gave this week during the Game Developers Conference. The topic was the company’s “core design concepts”, which one could argue are the best in the industry…

BuckGB
February 17, 2010

Battle.net Interview

IGN is hosting a five-minute video interview with Blizzard’s Greg Canessa that focuses entirely on what we should expect from their Battle.net relaunch later this year. During the interview, Greg discusses the three key design goals that they have for…

BuckGB
January 8, 2010

Diablo Player Economies Analyzed

DiabloFans.com has cranked out an editorial that provides a brief analysis of the player economies that exist in Diablo and Diablo II, as well as what we might expect from Diablo III’s player economy with the added features brought by…

BuckGB
December 31, 2009

A Decade of Diablo

Did you know that today is the 13th anniversary of the original Diablo? To celebrate such a momentous occasion, DiabloFans.com has put together a “Decade of Diablo” editorial that briefly takes us through important Diablo-related happenings from the pre-2000 years until…