{"id":769561,"date":"2026-09-13T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769561\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:52:10","slug":"diablo-4s-new-season-brings-back-deckard-cain-and-all-three-prime-evils-as-the-game-arrives-on-switch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769561\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 4’s new season brings back Deckard Cain and all three Prime Evils as the game arrives on Switch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diablo 4<\/a>‘s next season, Season of Hell’s Legacy, will go live on 15th September to celebrate the franchise’s 30th anniversary and Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> debut.<\/p>\n

At BlizzCon’s opening ceremony, developer Blizzard said the season will be a tribute to three decades of Diablo, built around the return of Deckard Cain and a rematch against all three original Prime Evils: Diablo, Baal, and Mephisto.<\/p>\n

BlizzCon 2026’s opening ceremony, where the new season and Switch 2 launch were detailed.Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Cain’s spirit returns to warn players that echoes of the three Prime Evils have resurfaced. Each one’s holed up in a location familiar to those who’ve played the earlier games – Tristram Cathedral, Arreat Summit, the Durance of Hate. Beat one and you get a Soul Splinter, which lets you borrow a bit of that demon’s power. The catch is that it also makes you more vulnerable to that same demon.<\/p>\n

That’s not all, either. Nine new Legacy Uniques also join the game permanently, including a returning Stone of Jordan, alongside a batch of enemy encounters called Waking Nightmares that recreate specific moments from Diablo’s past. \n<\/p>\n

The new content is slated to go live at 5.30pm UK time on 15th September. \n<\/p>\n

Diablo 4 is also making its Nintendo Switch 2 debut that day. The Age of Hatred Collection brings the base game with the Vessel of Hatred and Lord of Hatred expansions, supporting cross-play and cross-progression with other versions. \n<\/p>\n

The Amazon’s back too, marking her first appearance in Diablo 4. She’s due sometime in the first half of 2027, with a bow and javelin in hand and four builds: Champion, Skirmisher, Ranger, Commander. \n<\/p>\n

It’s one of several big reveals from BlizzCon 2026’s opening ceremony, which also included Diablo 5<\/a>, World of Warcraft: Forever<\/a>, and a new open-world StarCraft shooter<\/a>. For more, here’s everything announced in the BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diablo 4‘s next season, Season of Hell’s Legacy, will go live on 15th September to celebrate the franchise’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-769561","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\/769561","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=769561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}