{"id":75078,"date":"2026-04-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75078"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:38:33","slug":"diablo-4-lord-of-hatred-21-minutes-of-skovos-region-gameplay-ign-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75078","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred \u2013 21 Minutes of Skovos Region Gameplay | IGN First"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Check out over 20 minutes of gameplay showing off the new Skovos region in Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, the upcoming second expansion for 2023&#8217;s popular action-RPG. And stay tuned all April long for more exclusive IGN First coverage on Lord of Hatred leading up to its April 28 release.<\/p>\n<p>The footage above culminates in a boss fight that really ends this gameplay on a high note. And when you&#8217;re done watching that, don&#8217;t miss our previous IGN First coverage from earlier this month on Lord of Hatred, such as the opening minutes of gameplay (including a boss fight) below, as well as a look at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/diablo-4-lord-of-hatred-exclusive-cutscene-the-queen-and-the-saint-ign-first\">in-game cutscene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"diablo-4-lord-of-hatred-the-first-12-minutes-of-gameplay-plus-boss-fight-ign-first\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>We&#8217;ll have more on Lord of Hatred next week as the launch approaches. In the meantime, if you&#8217;re interested in playing Lord of Hatred but it&#8217;s been a minute since you played Diablo 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/videos\/diablo-iv-lord-of-hatred-a-rapid-story-recap\">get caught up on the story<\/a> before the second expansion is released. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"divider\">\n<p><em>Ryan McCaffrey is IGN&#8217;s executive editor of previews and host of both IGN&#8217;s weekly Xbox show, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/watch\/unlocked\">Podcast Unlocked<\/a><em>, as well as our semi-retired interview show, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2016\/02\/04\/ign-unfiltered-every-episode-ever\">IGN Unfiltered<\/a><em>. He&#8217;s a North Jersey guy, so it&#8217;s &#8220;Taylor ham,&#8221; not &#8220;pork roll.&#8221; Debate it with<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out over 20 minutes of gameplay showing off the new Skovos region in Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, the upcoming second expansion for 2023&#8217;s popular action-RPG. And stay tuned all April long for more exclusive IGN First coverage on Lord of Hatred leading up to its April 28 release. The footage above culminates in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75082,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75078\/revisions\/75082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}