“ Luis has a very strong vision for that game,” a former employee said to Kotaku.

Diablo IV is being designed with a new mantra in mind: Embrace the darkness. That aesthetic change is a big one, as Diablo IV wants to right the wrongs of Diablo III and its visuals which made the game look like a slightly darker World of WarCraft spin-off when it was first launched. According to some industry inside news from Kotaku’s Jason Schrier however, not only is Diablo IV going to be a game that includes a few ideas pinched from Bungie’s Destiny games, but it’ll also be returning to its dark and grim visual design roots. It’s an open secret in the industry, but there’s still very little that’s actually known about the demon-slaying RPG. That’s a story for another post, but what really rubbed salt in the wound was the fact that Diablo IV is in development. Indeed there was, as Diablo Immortal was announced to rapturous boos, as fans were not happy at the idea of a mobile Diablo game hogging the spotlight at Blizzard’s annual shindig. BlizzCon 2018 was a bit of a stuff-up for Diablo fans, wasn’t it? Even though Blizzard had told fans explicitly that there would be no Diablo 4 announcement, there was still an odd sense of anticipation in the air that there would be something new to be shown off in the realm of angels and demons.

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