Shortly after the postmortem, however, Blizzard pulled that project from the team and put the division behind Diablo IV in charge.

Team 1 wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes of Warcraft III: Reforged on its next project, the remake of Diablo II. They asked not to be identified discussing private information. Vicarious Visions, based in Albany, New York, has been working with Blizzard since last year on the Diablo franchise, including a planned remake of Diablo II, people familiar with the plans said. Since the original story broke, further information from Bloomberg indicates that the Diablo 2 remaster has been in the works adding: A while ago there was a rumour circulating that a Diablo 2 remaster could be in the works at Vicarious Visions so this latest move is intriguing. Pick up my sci-fi novels Herokiller and Herokiller 2, and read my first series, The Earthborn Trilogy, which is also on audiobook. Perhaps with Vicarious Visions on board, that will start to change, we can hope.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. Blizzard has been exceptionally silent in general for a long while now. The same goes for the full release of Diablo Immortal, now in alpha, Diablo 4 or Overwatch 2.

Like with all Blizzard projects, we currently have no timeline for the Diablo 2 remake’s arrival, which VV has already been working on for some time.

As for how Vicarious Visions is feeling about this, we have no idea, as the developer has not tweeted since the news was first reported in yesterday. Though with how hollowed-out Blizzard has seemed to be lately, perhaps this is the emergency blood infusion they need. But I think the main point is that after all the work Vicarious Visions has done for Activision over the years, they deserved better than to be a perma-Blizzard support studio and probably should have been given entire projects and IPs to themselves.

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