{"id":768861,"date":"2026-09-13T01:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768861\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:20:12","slug":"blizzard-announces-diablo-5-for-2029-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768861\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard announces Diablo 5 for 2029 release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has announced Diablo 5 and committed to a 2029 release window.<\/p>\n<p>Announced at BlizzCon\u2019s opening ceremony on Tuesday, Diablo 5 takes place in a world that has fallen to Diablo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiablo 5 is coming in Spring 2029,\u201d said designer <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"People &gt; Joe Shely [125 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/people\/joe-shely\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Shely<\/a>. \u201cThe heroes are gone, Sanctuary has fallen, and Diablo has won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, you won\u2019t be fighting to stop Diablo from taking Sanctuary; you\u2019ll enter a world where he already has, with no towns and safe places waiting to protect you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Production director Tiffany Wat added: \u201cThat changes everything: how you survive, what powers you\u2019re willing to claim, and what you\u2019re willing to sacrifice.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the heart of Diablo 5 is the simple question: what must you become when the world has already fallen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A dedicated BlizzCon panel will reveal further details this weekend, <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Companies &gt; Blizzard Entertainment [557 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/companies\/activision-blizzard\/blizzard-entertainment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blizzard<\/a> confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Shely confirmed that <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Diablo 4 [204 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/diablo-4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diablo 4<\/a> will release for <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; Nintendo Switch 2 [1,425 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/nintendo\/nintendo-switch-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> on September 15.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the opening panel, <a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/blizzard-announces-netflix-diablo-series-and-overwatch-could-be-next\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blizzard announced a Netflix series based on Diablo<\/a> and said it\u2019s in discussions to launch similar projects for its other franchises.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard also <a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/blizzard-reveals-open-world-starcraft-shooter-from-ex-far-cry-boss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced a new StarCraft project<\/a> and confirmed it\u2019s targeting a 2030 release date.<\/p>\n<p>A trailer for the project, which it confirmed is an open-world shooter, was revealed during BlizzCon 2026\u2019s opening ceremony on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blizzard has announced Diablo 5 and committed to a 2029 release window. Announced at BlizzCon\u2019s opening ceremony on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-768861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}