What has the Diablo 4 Beta taught us? Blizzard is back, but we need to be cautious

If you’re like most other gamers I have seen over the past few days, Diablo 4 is now high on your ‘most excited’ list for 2023. Move over The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, right? (Wrong). It’s been almost 11 years since the launch of Diablo 3, and since then the games industry has moved on. We’ve become more accustomed to ‘games as a service’, we’ve got better at implementing social elements into RPGs, and we’ve rethought lifecycle and monetisation – for better and w...