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Filed under: Fantasy , Culture , MMO Industry , Diablo III , Anniversaries Diablo III is a year old, and Blizzard’s celebratory anniversary gesture is one of those mile-long infographic things featuring selected statistics designed to make you ooh and ahh. Said statistics include 67.1 million characters created world-wide, 3.3 trillion monsters killed world-wide, and 22.4 million characters that have killed Diablo . Interestingly, Blizzard left off the number of hours lost to launch server login issues, nor is there any mention of D3’s much-maligned real-money auction house .

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Blizzard congratulates itself on Diablo III’s anniversary

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Filed under: Fantasy , Bugs , Business Models , Economy , Events (Real-World) , Game Mechanics , MMO Industry , News Items , Opinion , Free-to-Play , The Daily Grind , Miscellaneous , Diablo III , Neverwinter In the last few weeks, two big games we cover on Massively have been slammed with exploits that have injured their respective economies: Diablo III and Neverwinter . In Diablo III’s case, a gold duping bug apparently pumped insane amounts of cash into the economy. And as reported by players, Neverwinter exploits run the gamut from Foundry abuses to negative auction hall bids that don’t consume gold to classes that can one-shot bosses making farming trivial.

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The Daily Grind: When are rollbacks and wipes absolutely necessary?

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Filed under: Fantasy , Video , Game Mechanics , News Items , Consoles , Dev Diaries , Diablo III Diablo III , as you (savvy, informed reader that you are) surely know, is being released for the PS3 and PS4 at some point. Bringing the game over to a new platform has been an exciting challenge for the devs, which they discuss in this shiny new dev diary video . The crucial part of porting the experience, they say, is the controller.

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Diablo III devs talk about creating console controls

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Filed under: World of Warcraft , Fantasy , Events (Real-World) , Diablo III Grabbing one of the year’s hottest tickets will be a tricky prospect, especially considering how fast BlizzCon typically sells out. However, Blizzard is giving everyone a fair chance at grabbing one of these tickets by announcing the dates and times that they’ll be going on sale. Dates plural?

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BlizzCon’s golden tickets going on sale in two batches

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Filed under: Fantasy , Culture , Game Mechanics , News Items , Dev Diaries , Diablo III The Diablo III team has decided that its multiplayer co-op is in need of improvement. The game’s 1.0.8 patch will be bringing in some changes to support and improve the system

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Diablo III gets massive multiplayer improvements in 1.0.8

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Filed under: Betas , Classes , Culture , Game mechanics , Launches , New titles , Reviews , PvE , Opinion , Free-to-play , Hands-on , First Impressions , Dungeons , Diablo III Like many gamers in their mid-20s, I spent countless hours in my teenage years smashing through dungeons and hunting for loot in Diablo II .

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Path of Exile hands-on: The sequel Diablo II deserved

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Filed under: Betas , Sci-fi , Video , Game mechanics , PvP , News items , Dev Diaries , Not So Massively , Sandbox , MOBA , League of Legends , Diablo III , Crowdfunding The League of Legends North American online qualifiers took place this weekend, with 32 teams competing for just eight spots in the upcoming offline qualifiers in Los Angeles. Dota 2 ’s competitive tournament scene suffered a setback when tournament website joinDOTA had its YouTube account and channel inexplicably closed. Rise of Immortals is gearing up for its first official tournament, and Guardians of Middle-Earth has $5,000 up for grabs in its first console MOBA e-sports cups.

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Not So Massively: Cash prize MOBA tournaments and crowdfunding success!

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Filed under: Fantasy , Legal , Diablo III Diablo III is a few thousand players lighter today, as Blizzard announced that it had culled the unfaithful (read: botters) from its fold. Community Manager Lylirra issued the grim proclamation : “We’ve recently issued account bans to several thousand Diablo III players who were found to be using botting programs while playing. In addition to undermining the spirit of fair play, botting, hacking, and other forms of cheating can also cause technical problems with the game as well as contribute to performance issues with the Battle.net service.” Lylirra also said that the Diablo III team is working to add a feature that will allow players to directly report naughty bots through the game itself

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Blizzard bans thousands of bots from Diablo III

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Filed under: Fantasy , MMO industry , Consoles , Diablo III The good news is that Diablo III is now available to play on consoles. The bad news is that you’d have to apply and get accepted for a job with Blizzard to see it. The company admitted that it’s continuing its experiments with a console version of Diablo III , saying that the game is running on a non-PC platform in the office

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Blizzard running Diablo III on consoles internally

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Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , Culture , Events, real-world , Game mechanics , New titles , Patches , PvP , News items , Free-to-play , Consoles , Not So Massively , MOBA , League of Legends , Diablo III One of the world’s biggest annual LAN parties took place this week at DreamHack Winter 2012 , where the European e-sports communities faced off in a series of huge tournaments. League of Legends ‘ tense tournament was streamed around the world as favourite CLG.EU suffered defeat at the hands of Fnatic.RaidCall.

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Not So Massively: Dreamhack Winter 2012, and Athene’s naked Diablo kill

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