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Blizzard Hiring for “Console Diablo III”

Garrett Hartman — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:07:32 +0000

Last week we reported Blizzard was investigating a console version of Diablo III, now it looks as though they are hiring.

Through a recent job listing seen on Gamasutra, Blizzard has basically confirmed that it is working on a console port of Diablo III. The Job listing is seeking is for a “Senior Producer, Console Diablo III” and the description includes:

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a highly organized individual with outstanding communications and project management skills for the Diablo team. The ideal candidate has prior experience in console game development and has a keen knowledge of how each discipline operates and interacts. Self-direction and follow-up skills are a must, as well as the ability to anticipate production issues and find effective solutions. The candidate must be fully committed to seeing projects through from inception to completion, and delivering games on time with the highest quality.

Essentially, console owners who have looked forward to playing Diable 3 have something big to look foward to. Don’t get too excited though. At Activision’s most recent conference, it was announced as unlikely Blizzard would release a game in 2011. Most likely it could see a 2012 release.

Diablo “Investigated” for a Console Port

Garrett Hartman — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:42:38 +0000

Blizzard Entertainment CEO Mike Morhaime brought up the possibilty of a console version of Diablo at DICE late yesterday. While noting Blizzard’s preference for the PC’s flexibilty he stated,

“I think you could make an argument that a game like Diablo might play very well on a console. It’s something that we’re actually doing an investigation into to see if that could make sense.”

Morhaime also discussed a “number of issues” that Blizzard would have to solve before bringing Diablo to consoles. Among his major concerns include the ability to patch effectively and add expansions.

When asked if he felt Diablo could be ported to consoles, he nodded “yes”!

Source: Joystiq

“PS3 Version Was Not Running As Well” – Dark Sector Almost Canned?

Dan Landis — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:06:11 +0000

Josh Austin, Producer for Digital Extremes’ Dark Sector, conveyed to us that the team struggled initially with developing the title for the PS3, so much so that they had “serious” conversations about what to do next . Was Dark Sector close to being scrapped? Read on to see his exact words.

“So, yeah, this is the PS3 version, umm… it looks just as good as the 360 version, which we’re very happy about. Towards the end we started having some serious conversations about what we were gonna do, uh, but we ended up pulling it off, so we’re very proud of that.”

I asked for clarification on what that meant, and he replied simply “It was just not running as well as the 360″. We continued the conversation about these problems, only we went off the record so I won’t discuss it further.

Just be happy knowing that you have more ammunition in the flame wars. Hooray! PS3 owners should also feel comforted knowing that some smart dudes got the game running on PS3′s superior hardware. Feel free to argue about it in the comments section.

Update: D3′s PR got in touch with me this afternoon and explained to me that Dark Sector was never officially “almost canned” for the PS3. My apologies to Josh if anything he said was taken out of context.

Seacrest out.