Diablo 4 is now live and many people are gleefully exploring Sanctuary (or watching others explore it if they haven't yet found the time to login).

Diablo 4's version of Sanctuary is out to get you -- quite literally -- and as a Necromancer, you're not exactly known for your survivability.

With all the positive buzz about the launch of Diablo 4 — it's all anyone at Blizzard Watch has been talking about lately — it’s a great time for new players to jump into the world of Sanctuary.

Though our understanding of sensation, stimuli, and pain is mostly in the trial-and-error stage still, the differences between boring, interesting, overstimulating, or painful are technically only a matter of intensity and degree.

Diablo 4 launches this afternoon at 4pm pacific, and if you're still deciding what to play, we're here to help.

Sometimes you get the dragon and sometimes the dragon gets you. After spending all night working on Mythic Kezzara she proved too strong for us and feasted on our — apparently delicious — cries.

This is one of those times that what initially seems like a tiny change going from Heroic to Mythic wound up being a lot stronger than we anticipated. On Mythic if you cross the streams at all the raid takes big damage. So all of a sudden positioning and communication are way more important. There was a level of personal responsibility there to not just instantly kite your laser beam into the nearest puddle and instead make sure that you were going to the best puddle for yourself, which our raiders just weren’t prepared for.

Next time I’m sure!

While I get a quick dungeon in on Diablo to be killed by a different kind of hellfire, it’s time for — The Queue!

Hardcore mode owes a lot to early video game design with games like Rogue or even arcade games like Space Invaders, where the goal was to get as far through the game as you possibly could without dying.

Pausing a game in order to briefly step away is crucial part to a healthy gaming/life balance for many of us, but that doesn't mean Diablo 4 got that memo.

You'll find a peculiar type of locked chest scattered around Sanctuary in Diablo 4: the Silent Chest, secured shut with a chain and a padlock.

I know, some people are already a little burned out on the Diablo hype, so I will try to contain myself in today’s Queue.