{"id":84852,"date":"2026-06-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84852"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:39:55","slug":"diablo-4s-next-crossover-goes-in-a-much-different-lighter-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84852","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 4\u2019s Next Crossover Goes In A Much Different, \u201cLighter\u201d Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/diablo-iv\/\">Diablo 4&#8217;s<\/a> next crossover collaboration will be with Blizzard&#8217;s own Overwatch, bringing the looks of iconic heroes like Reinhardt, Mercy, Kiriko, and others to the dark-fantasy ARPG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collab will come as part of Diablo 4&#8217;s upcoming Season 14, Death Awakening, and will mostly be a &#8220;shop-focused collab,&#8221; according to Diablo 4&#8217;s design director for live services Dan Tanguay. There will, however, be a free reliquary where players can unlock two Overwatch-themed weapon cosmetics, a mount trophy, player emblems, and the game&#8217;s first earnable armor dye at no cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the Overwatch appearances players will be able to buy from Diablo 4&#8217;s in-game shop, a teaser image for the collab shows armor sets inspired by Genji, Reaper, Brigitte, Mercy, Moira, Reinhardt, Kirkio, and Roadhog. Two pets, Kiriko&#8217;s spirit fox and a Pachimari, also appear in the image.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1800215\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Diablo-4-Death-Awakening-Infographic.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1800215\" \/>A look at what all is new in Diablo 4 Season 14. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crossover between the optimistic, near-future sci-fi setting of Overwatch and the bloody, demon-ravaged world of Sanctuary doesn&#8217;t exactly sound like a perfect pairing given the wildly different tone of the two universes (though there are plenty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo 4&#8217;s next crossover collaboration will be with Blizzard&#8217;s own Overwatch, bringing the looks of iconic heroes like Reinhardt, Mercy, Kiriko, and others to the dark-fantasy ARPG. The collab will come as part of Diablo 4&#8217;s upcoming Season 14, Death Awakening, and will mostly be a &#8220;shop-focused collab,&#8221; according to Diablo 4&#8217;s design director for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":84854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84852"}],"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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84855,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84852\/revisions\/84855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}