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Diablo 2: Resurrected is arriving this season

For the remaining first game's fanbase, however, this might be amazing news: gamers like me spent substantial amounts of Diablo 2 Items time grinding Diablo II's bosses and levels to dust looking for unique items, and of course selling them online and trading them inside a game which was not really designed for that type of thing. (One special rare thing, the Stone of Jordan, was actually used as a makeshift form of currency.)

Now, all of that progress is theoretically yours instead of having to start from scratch, and it might even be portable, too: theoretically, the game's cross-save abilities across PC and console mean you could even load your OG save to a Nintendo Switch.

"Diablo 2 is a really important match to Blizzard," explained Diablo main Rod Fergusson. "It helped specify the ARPG genre. It was the 20th anniversary of this match this past year, Blizzard's 30th anniversary now, and as we are getting ready for Diablo Immortal and Diablo 4. It feels like a wonderful moment to bring this game back."

Beneath the new images, which support 4K and higher refresh rates including 144 Hz, this is almost precisely the exact same Diablo 2 it has always been. You can flip back and forth to the old images will, and underneath its brand new 3D engine Diablo 2: Resurrected runs to the old game's code. The sound has been remastered for Dolby 7.1, but it is still using the same records from the first game.

Blizzard has made a few new quality of life additions, including a shared item stash for many of your characters to pull out from and auto-looting. However, Fergusson stressed that its additions in Diablo 2: Resurrected are optional toggles--in case you still want to pick up gold and loot manually, then you definitely can.

Diablo 2: Resurrected is coming to PC and Cheap Diablo 2 Resurrected Items consoles in 2021, with cross platform progression (TBD on that consoles, exactly, which includes). Eager helldivers are going to have the ability to register for a specialized alpha prior launch. Blizzard told us it'll price $39.99 on PC.