Diablo 4 Is Launching On June 6, 2023

After 11 years of waiting, Diablo 4 - the long-awaited successor to Blizzard's hit dungeon crawling RPG - is finally here. It's set to launch on June 6, as revealed in yesterday's Microsoft Store leak.

Accompanying this announcement was some new CGI footage that gave us a glimpse of Hell in all its modern splender, crashing into current-gen like a certain fallen angel. Azrael did make an appearance in this trailer, blowing away some hellish demons who flooded a giant cracked bridge during an enormous battle with a far more prepared army of shield-walling knights.

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We have a few months to wait still, and in those months, you should probably start preparing your storage. That same Microsoft Store leak claimed that it would be a whopping 80GB in size. Given how previous Games have provided thousands and thousands of hours of worthy adventures for fans, that's fairly understandable, but it's still a big slice of your storage pie.

If you're itching to see what's in store for Gameplay, meanwhile, over 40 minutes leaked back in September.

Activision Blizzard came under fire yesterday over reports of incentivising crunch during Diablo 4's development. This is according to 15 current and former employees who claim that it requires "significant overtime" (read: crunch) to reach the June 6 release date. Activision Blizzard stated that this was "voluntary and limited to specific teams" but employees refuted this by saying that there were incentives for working long hours, such as a $25 Door Dash credit and "performance shares", i.e. company shares when Diablo 4 releases.

Blizzard employees criticised this, saying that "they incentivize leadership to cut corners, comprimise, and ship products that are not ready to be released, instead of doing what is best for long-term value creation. It's really just a way for the company to, without mandating crunch, make people want to work much, much longer hours, and stress themselves out, and burn themselves out to save company money and get it out quicker."

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