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Blizzard Entertainment’s online game festival’BlizzConline’ began on the 20th. At the BlizzConline, there are many things to see, including news and game announcements for passionate fans and players around the world. Anyone can watch it completely free through Blizzard’s official website.
At the opening ceremony that day, Blizzard’s development team, including J. Allen Brack, president of Blizzard Entertainment, recalled Blizzard’s past footsteps and presented a blueprint for the future. First of all, Blizzard released the console version of Diablo 2: Resurrection. ‘Diablo 2: Resurrection’, which faithfully remastered Blizzard’s action role-playing masterpiece’Diablo 2’and expansion pack’Lord of Destruction’, will be released on Windows PC and the first console platform this year.
J. Allen Brack, president of Blizzard Entertainment, said, “Diablo 2 has been a great game for Blizzard and millions of players around the world. We are excited to bring this classic masterpiece to PC as well as consoles through Diablo 2: Resurrection.” “It’s also possible to share progress across supported platforms, allowing players to relive old memories on their preferred platform, or experience timeless Diablo II gameplay for the first time.”
In addition, Blizzard has unveiled a new job Rogue for the first time, along with a gloomy cinematic and gameplay video unique to Diablo IV. Rogue is a fast, deadly, and highly mobile class that has no match for its versatility. Rogue players can attack and trap enemies in a number of ways, and can improve their combat power with poison, dark magic, and professional skills.
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Blizzard’s card game’Hearthstone’ is about to reach the Year of the Gryphon, which is filled with rich content. This year’s’Hearthstone’ introduces a new Core set that will provide novel fun to the game, and a classic game where you can build a deck and enjoy the competition with Hearthstone’s basic cards, which are the same as they were released in 2014. ‘Heartstone Mercenary’, which will be released within the year, is a new one-player competitive game mode, where you can gather powerful characters from the’Warcraft’ universe to form a team and raise your level through exciting strategic battles.
In’World of Warcraft (WoW)’, the first large-scale content update of the recently released’Dark Land’ expansion pack,’Chain of Domination’, was announced, and is expected to be released within the year. Along with this, a new charity pet that will present each of the in-game pets Bananas the money and Daisy the sloth to all World of Warcraft Shadowlands players upon reaching each donation goal. The program was also presented. The Burning Crusade Classic, a completely recreated version of the first expansion pack of’World of Warcraft’, has also been released. The Burning Crusade Classic, which is also scheduled to be released within this year, is provided to existing World of Warcraft subscribers at no additional cost.
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The’Blizzard Arcade Collection’, which digitally showcases Blizzard’s early hits’Lost Viking’,’Rock’n’Roll Racing’ and’Blackthorn’, has also been released. The Windows PC version of the Blizzard Arcade Collection will be featured in a commemorative collection released through Battle.net to mark the 30th anniversary of Blizzard.
Blizzard will present programs with detailed information throughout the entire Blizzard franchise, including behind-the-scenes stories about the development process of’Overwatch 2’and mobile’Diablo Immortal’, through BlizzConline until Sunday, February 21st. In addition, BlizzConline viewers will compete against the legendary’StarCraft’ and’StarCraft 2’esports players, and the current champion of the’Overwatch League’ San Francisco Shock, and a dream team consisting of professional esports players and community celebrities. You can enjoy special e-sports events, etc.
Minjae Paik, reporter of Hankyung.com Gametalk
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