Yesterday, Sony announced that PlayStation Plus is getting some big games to celebrate the service’s 15th birhtday. One of the big additions to the subscription service is Diablo 4. You can read our four star review of Blizzard’s latest take on the ARPG at the link if you’re keen to know more about the intricacy and depth of this mammoth effort in the dungeon-crawling genre.
PlayStation has chosen a good time to get this game into the hands of more Diablo-curious players. The game’s eighth season, Belial’s Return, is almost over. As it often goes, the next season has already been in the works for a while, and Blizzard even let players test out its core elements well ahead of launch via the game’s public test server. So we have a good idea of what to expect when Season 9: Sins of the Horadrim drops into the live product.
The title of the new season was revealed back in April when Diablo 4’s slim roadmap was first made public. While a final livestream ahead of launch is scheduled for this Friday, much of what matters has been known about, and in the hands of players, for a while.
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My take? Diablo 4 is firmly in its treading waters era. The initial plan was for Blizzard to deliver one expansion each year. That only lasted for a single year, and it gave us Vessel of Hatred, the game’s only expansion, released in 2024. Blizzard reneged on its promise when it revealed that 2025 won’t actually see the release of a new expansion, with the next one instead set to launch sometime in 2026.