Players will be able to pre-download Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred starting tonight at 4pm PDT for Battle.net users, and October 5th for Console players!
With Vessel of Hatred's launch less than a week away, players can begin prepping now for a smooth experience by pre-downloading all available data. These download times will be staggered, but should allow for Wanderers to jump right in once servers officially launch.
Today we’re featuring Releasing the Beast II: Don’t Call me Huntard! by Sazabi. It’s an intriguing, mesmerizing, hilarious, self-aware take on a PvP movie — following up the hugely successful Releasing the Beast. Now, wait! Don’t tune out if you don’t like PvP movies. It’s not actually a PvP movie, per se. It’s a comedy all the way, including the filmmaker showing his own failures in the battlegrounds and making fun of his arena rating. It’s certainly not a how-to movie. In fact, the story goes out of its way to demonstrate that it is NOT a model of PvP play tactics.
The premise is this: after brutally failing during a PvE raid (with a very funny guest voice appearance from the star of Onyxia Wipe Animation) caused by his hobby as a Fraps-aholic machinima filmmaker, our hero decides to try his hand at the battlegrounds and arena scene at the urging of his main character, an Orc hunter. (Hence, the subtitle: Don’t call me huntard!) The PvP scenes are interludes within the arc of the bigger story and are set to some great music, mostly from the Naruto Original Soundtrack. These battle scenes are slickly filmed with split-screen punctuations of the action. (My only complaint about them is at times the camera angle is too high to see well.)
The battle fray is framed by the comedic conflict between the Second Life avatar of the filmmaker and his WoW creation (or so he believes), Sazabi. The story folds in on itself so many times that you feel like you’re in a Möbius strip that’s been flagged in enemy territory. But that’s exactly the fun here. Even though the film is 27 minutes long, you need to wait for the twist at the end which presents a fine comeuppance for our hero. (Which hero you’ll have to find out for yourself.) I also recommend downloading the FileFront version because the subtitles are a bit difficult to read in the streaming version and they help clear up some of the European accents at times.
In Dragonflight’s Alpha Build 44649, a very special Hearthstone character has made his way into World of Warcraft: Rafaam! He has been one of the most popular antagonists in Hearthstone history for years now, starring as the main villain in multiple ex…
The Iron Horde is on the march, and the Warlords of Draenor are primed to invade Azeroth on November 13! Watch the newly unveiled opening cinematic to get fired up for the coming battle. Then catch the premiere of our new animated lore miniseries Lords of War, and learn to fear the cruel warlord Kargath Bladefist.
