Diablo III real money auction house launched in America

Game fans with cash to blow on pretend stuff will be thrilled to know the Diablo III real money auction house has launched in America, and should be available in the EU region – which includes South Africa – on Friday (15 June 2012).

For the moment, only weapons and armour are up for sale, with commodities (including things like blacksmithing materials and whatnot) being added “as soon as possible”.

According to the announcement update, you’ll need a Battle.net Authenticator attached to your account to use the real money auction house.

Blizzard has also dropped a patch for the game, fixing the notorious Error 37.

“If the authentication service is busy, the login checkbox will now wait at ‘Authenticating Credentials’ until a player’s login attempt can be processed. As a result, players should no longer encounter Error 37 when logging in,” reads the official patch note.

Okay, so it doesn’t fix it so much as remove the error popup. One thing at a time here, people.