{"id":89303,"date":"2026-09-12T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89303"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:39:13","slug":"diablo-5-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89303","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 5 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Diablo 5, a brand-new mainline entry in Blizzard\u2019s long-running action RPG series, was announced today at BlizzCon 2026. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A short teaser during today&#8217;s BlizzCon\u2019s opening ceremony shows the return of the Lord of Terror, one century after the events of Diablo 4. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Diablo development team also revealed that Diablo 5 will release in Spring 2029, a full 6 years after the release of Diablo 4, and more than three decades after the series first launched. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"image-with-caption\" data-image-url=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/09\/12\/screenshot-2026-09-12-at-2-20-05-pm-1789237414894.png\" data-image-title=\"undefined\" data-image-class=\"article-image-full-size\" data-image-link=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/09\/12\/screenshot-2026-09-12-at-2-20-05-pm-1789237414894.png\" data-caption=\"First%20Look%20at%20Diablo%205\" \/>\n<p>Diablo 5\u2019s story is confirmed to take place a full century after the events of Diablo 4, and will be the first game in the series that is set entirely post-apocalypse. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>BlizzCon 2026 also saw more Diablo news, including The Amazon &#8211; a new class pack coming to Diablo 4 in 2027, word that the Diablo 4 Collection coming to Nintendo Switch 2, and Season 15, a broad playable look-back at the history of the Diablo franchise, which is available now. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>For more from BlizzCon 2026, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-live-blog-the-future-of-warcraft-and-diablo-set-to-be-revealed-amid-starcraft-announcement-rumors\">everything announced.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Developing<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"divider\">\n<section data-transform=\"author-sign-off\" data-id=\"eb5b42f2-07bd-44f1-a1f4-779a43102e26\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo 5, a brand-new mainline entry in Blizzard\u2019s long-running action RPG series, was announced today at BlizzCon 2026. A short teaser during today&#8217;s BlizzCon\u2019s opening ceremony shows the return of the Lord of Terror, one century after the events of Diablo 4. The Diablo development team also revealed that Diablo 5 will release in Spring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":89305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89303","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\/89303"}],"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\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89307,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89303\/revisions\/89307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}