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Diablo is one of those few games that made you proud to be a computer gamer. There were not many that made console gamers jealous, Blizzards Rogue-like was one of them. It joined the ranks of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Command & Conquer, and a few flight sims. Even Rogue was a PC exclusive for most […]
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Diablo Pits Gamers Against Hell – January 3rd, 1997 – Today in Video Game History
January 3rd, 2021 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Comp, News, Windows 
Tags: blizzard, Condor, Diablo, dungeons, hell, Lord of Terror, Nethack, randomly generated, rogue, rogue-like, role playing game, rpg 
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Diablo GoG Edition Review
April 10th, 2019 Carl Williams How do you review a veritable classic? There are not many titles that fit this category – Super Mario 3, Pac-Man, Doom, etc are all classics that even non-gamers know about. Diablo is another title that fits that genre rather nicely. I know that term is quite subjective but for a lot of gamers, these […]
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StarCraft Plus Expansion Free Leading Up to HD Remake Release
April 18th, 2017 Carl Williams To say Blizzard is not for their fans is just flat-out wrong. This company has gone out of their way to release some of their past works for free, give free online play, and continue updating their older games decades after release. One such instance is StarCraft, which has just received a major update, been […]
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Diablo Being Remade
November 4th, 2016 Carl Williams Diablo, the roguelike game that really brought the genre to the modern gamer of the 90’s is getting a remake. For those that do not know what Diabo is about, it is basically a battle against the devil. Yep. If that bothers you then you probably are not the target audience for this game. Judging […]
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Warcraft Adventures Removed By Blizzard
September 13th, 2016 Carl Williams Earlier this week I reported that a Russian fan was able to collect everything needed for Warcraft Adventures and released it. This was an unreleased point and click adventure title by Blizzard, planned for release about 18 years ago. Warcraft Adventures was cancelled and that was thought to be the end of it. That is […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: adventures, animated, blizzard, CD-i, cdi, forums, Maniac Mansion, point and click, Scrolls of Lore, secret of monkey island, Warcraft, Warcraft Adventures, zelda No Comments » Fan Collects Warcraft Adventures and Releases it, C&D Probably Coming
September 12th, 2016 Carl Williams It is not often that we find out about an unreleased game getting released by fans. While recently we have seen companies like Nintendo shutting down fan projects, it is going to be interesting to see how Blizzard reacts to this latest release. You see, a fan in Russia has somehow managed to collect the […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: adventures, animated, blizzard, CD-i, cdi, forums, Maniac Mansion, point and click, Scrolls of Lore, secret of monkey island, Warcraft, Warcraft Adventures, zelda No Comments »
Blizzard Answers Fans with Diablo II on PC – June 29th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
June 28th, 2016 Carl Williams When Blizzard released the original Diablo it was a completely different time in gaming. Internet was just becoming a thing that everyday people had access to. Magazines still ruled so it was required to get early builds of the game out to publications. Gamers had a slightly lower expectation of games on PC. That did […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Windows Tags: action, Battle Chest, blizzard, Diablo, Diablo II, gog.com, role playing game, rpg 5 Comments »
Today in Gaming History: StarCraft 64
June 13th, 2016 Dash The Bomber Sixteen years ago the company Blizzard released a port on the N64. This port was a watered down version of the legendary StarCraft game for PC. Unsuited for a game of this magnitude the N64 port suffered from a lack voice acting, scenes and even diminished the length of the music tracks. This was also […]
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Posted in Nintendo Tags: blizzard, n64, nintendo, nintendo 64, RTS, StarCraft, StarCraft 64 1 Comment »
RPM Racing II Becomes Rock n Roll Racing on Super Nintendo – June 4th, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
June 3rd, 2016 Carl Williams Sometimes doing these historical articles we come across a tidbit of information that is not widely known. Sure, the hardcore of the hardcore know it but for the most part, the average fan will learn something new. One such tidbit is that this game was originally planned as the sequel to RPM Racing. I knew […]
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Posted in Game Boy Advance, Genesis, News, Nintendo, Portables, Sega, Super Nintendo Tags: blizzard, interplay, racing, RC Pro-AM, Red Asphalt, Rock n Roll Racing, silicon & synapse No Comments »
Diablo II Receives Patch Improving Performance Compatibility
March 12th, 2016 Carl Williams Blizzard are an enigma in gaming. When other companies are abandoning their previous releases each year, Blizzard is just getting started. Take Diablo II for example. This is a 16 year old game- Blizzard are definitely not making money off of gamers that bought it back then. The last official patch released for Diablo II […]
