{"id":10021,"date":"2011-02-12T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"blizzard-aims-to-release-diablo-iii-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/10021-blizzard-aims-to-release-diablo-iii-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard aims to release Diablo III this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the week Activision Blizzard <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/9985-Blizzard-will-release-least-two-games-end-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;that it would be releasing two games between now and the end of 2012. The obvious candidates are Diablo III and StarCraft II: The Heart of the Swarm, although there has been speculation as to which will come first, and whether or not we will see either this year.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by <a href=\" http:\/\/kotaku.com\/#!5757690\/blizzards-goal-is-to-release-diablo-iii-this-year \" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a>&nbsp;about Diablo III in 2011, Blizzard&#8217;s executive vice president of game design, Rob Pardo, said &#8220;We really, really hope so. That&#8217;s our goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His follow up statement was a typical Blizzard one, &#8220;But you know, at the end of the day, we are going to get it right. That&#8217;s more important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to promise, we&#8217;re going to get it out there when it&#8217;s awesome. And, we&#8217;re crossing our fingers, maybe it will be this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked if Diablo III will be too simple for today&#8217;s gamers, Pardo said, &#8220;The thing Diablo has always done really well is broaden the RPG market. It brought people into it, who might not have come into it before. It&#8217;s there for anyone who wants to have fun for 15 minutes or three hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sticks with &quot;when it&#039;s awesome&quot; release date <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}