{"id":124800,"date":"2022-04-26T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T06:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124800"},"modified":"2022-04-26T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T06:30:32","slug":"diablo-immortal-to-launch-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124800-diablo-immortal-to-launch-in-june","title":{"rendered":"Diablo Immortal to launch in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has announced that Diablo Immortal will launch for mobile and PC on 2 June.<\/p>\n<p>Diablo Immortal&#8217;s PC launch will be an open beta test, which you can <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eu.shop.battle.net\/en-us\/product\/diablo-immortal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-register<\/a><\/strong> for now.<\/p>\n<p>The action RPG will be free-to-play on PC, and it will support cross-progression and cross-play between PC and mobile.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On June 2, Hell is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf1 iOS &amp; Android<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcbb PC Open Beta<\/p>\n<p>Pre-register: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hKUMmROvQI\">https:\/\/t.co\/hKUMmROvQI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BoC4tDL7Kq\">pic.twitter.com\/BoC4tDL7Kq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Diablo Immortal (@DiabloImmortal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiabloImmortal\/status\/1518553373477412866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-gb\/diablo-immortal\/23797159\/making-diablo-immortal-for-pc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a><\/strong>, Blizzard has reassured the Diablo fanbase that it will stay true to the Diablo experience by incorporating the traditional PC controls that players are familiar with.<\/p>\n<p>The developers have also added WASD controls for movement, key-rebinding options, and controller support.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard has warned veterans that the mobile port will &#8220;feel a little different from other PC Diablo games&#8221; as it&#8217;s an ongoing experiment.<\/p>\n<p>It is not surprising that Blizzard chose to port Diablo Immortal to PC since the game&#8217;s initial 2018 mobile-exclusive announcement was met with discontent from the Diablo community.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Blizzard&#8217;s other AAA projects, the company has stated that neither Diablo IV nor Overwatch 2 will launch in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4J3863Ut79w\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124793-borderlands-3-getting-full-cross-play\">Borderlands 3 getting full cross-play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise announcement, Blizzard has confirmed that Diablo Immortal will be coming to both PC and mobile in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":124804,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,3],"tags":[665,17572,26070,26069,6407,10439],"class_list":["post-124800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-pc","tag-blizzard","tag-cross-play","tag-cross-progression","tag-diablo-immortal","tag-mobile-game","tag-pc-port"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124800","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\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}