{"id":643,"date":"2021-02-23T13:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/23\/video-game-giant-blizzard-celebrates-30-years-with-diablo-ii-resurrected\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:18:20","slug":"video-game-giant-blizzard-celebrates-30-years-with-diablo-ii-resurrected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/23\/video-game-giant-blizzard-celebrates-30-years-with-diablo-ii-resurrected\/","title":{"rendered":"Video game giant Blizzard celebrates 30 years with Diablo II Resurrected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The developer\u2019s BlizzCon virtual convention announced the return of classic games including World of Warcraft \u2013 and looked ahead to future releases<\/p>\n<p>In a normal year, Blizzard\u2019s annual fan convention would have involved tens of thousands of cosplayers, esports pros, players and developers meeting and mingling in Anaheim, California. But, thanks to Covid, the video game developer was forced to postpone 2020\u2019s convention and instead celebrate its 30th year with a virtual convention last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Given this significant anniversary, it makes sense that many of the announcements were targeted at nostalgic fans. Three of Blizzard\u2019s older titles (Lost Vikings, Rock &amp; Roll Racing and Blackthorne) have been bundled together in the Blizzard Arcade Collection. World of Warcraft Classic, which takes players back to the venerable MMO\u2019s earliest days, will get a recreation of its first expansion, Burning Crusade. And 2000\u2019s beloved dungeon crawler Diablo II will be getting an HD remaster, releasing this year on to consoles, PC and Nintendo Switch as Diablo II Resurrected.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/feb\/23\/video-game-giant-blizzard-30-years-diablo-ii-resurrected-blizzcon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4d64dff605f9b9854895c5d84ec38f2b48fa9829\/33_0_1123_674\/master\/1123.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f5954404bf3e1540bbe5c2332cc9ea61\" title=\"Video game giant Blizzard celebrates 30 years with Diablo II Resurrected\" \/>The developer\u2019s BlizzCon virtual convention announced the return of classic games including World of Warcraft \u2013 and looked ahead to future releases<br \/>\nIn a normal year, Blizzard\u2019s annual fan convention would have involved tens of thousands of cosplayers, esports pros, players and developers meeting and mingling in Anaheim, California. But, thanks to Covid, the video game developer was forced to postpone 2020\u2019s convention and instead celebrate its 30th year with a virtual convention last weekend.<br \/>\nGiven this significant anniversary, it makes sense that many of the announcements were targeted at nostalgic fans. Three of Blizzard\u2019s older titles (Lost Vikings, Rock &amp; Roll Racing and Blackthorne) have been bundled together in the Blizzard Arcade Collection. World of Warcraft Classic, which takes players back to the venerable MMO\u2019s earliest days, will get a recreation of its first expansion, Burning Crusade. And 2000\u2019s beloved dungeon crawler Diablo II will be getting an HD remaster, releasing this year on to consoles, PC and Nintendo Switch as Diablo II Resurrected. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developer\u2019s BlizzCon virtual convention announced the return of classic games including World of Warcraft \u2013 and looked ahead to future releases In a normal year, Blizzard\u2019s annual fan convention would have involved tens of thousands of cosplayers, esports pros, players and developers meeting and mingling in Anaheim, California. But, thanks to Covid, the video &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/23\/video-game-giant-blizzard-celebrates-30-years-with-diablo-ii-resurrected\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video game giant Blizzard celebrates 30 years with Diablo II Resurrected<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}