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Diablo 3 Open Beta Weekend Begins Today

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Good morning! You're about to call in sick. It's really happening. An open beta for Blizzard's highly anticipated Diablo 3 will kick off at noon. That's right, a public beta open to anyone with a valid Battle.net account will begin today, April 20th, at 12:01 p.m. PST. The beta will run through Monday, April 23rd, 10:00 a.m. PST. You should be able to begin downloading the client now. Blizzard needs your help assaulting their servers in this three day stress test. Here's a link to the Diablo 3 website with instructions on how to enter the beta and other FAQs.

Grab three friends and dive in immediately:

From Friday, April 20 at 12:01 p.m. PDT (noon), until Monday, April 23 at 10:00 a.m. PDT you'll be able to log in, team up with friends, and play each of the five heroic classes to level 13 as you fight to save the world from the impending demonic invasion.

What are you going to do while you're waiting for the game to download? Why don't you check out our Diablo 3 beta impressions as well as our Co-Op Character Focus articles which cover the skills and cooperative potential of each class:

The Demon Hunter

The Monk

The Barbarian

The Witch Doctor

The Wizard

Diablo 3 supports four player online co-op. The full game will launch for PCs everywhere on May 15th. I have a feeling that a lot of people will be taking half-days today. 

 

 

Source: Us.battle.net

 
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Shazoo
2:54 AM
4/20/2012

downloading! thanks


Cubninja
2:58 AM
4/20/2012

I'm going to see if my laptop has got enough guts to run it. Because that's what I need. More games.


kersplat12785
12:45 PM
4/20/2012

Sadly, I'm just not impressed with DIII. It's not a glitch issue or anything. It just doesn't feel "special". To me it feels like a 15 year old game with modern graphics. Some people are fine with that, but I personally feel like it's another example of Activision shunning innovation and risks and only making things they know will be accepted.


Zhongz
1:29 PM
4/20/2012

What a coincidence , a last minute beta weekend only days after GW2 announces their beta weekend (27-30 April).

Oh well, atleast I can properly compare the 2 now


Shazoo
4:03 PM
4/20/2012

those servers are BUSTED hopefully itll fix soon


Sting187d
5:58 PM
4/20/2012

It's been down for 2 hours... shortly after they opened the gates. lol


Shazoo
8:19 PM
4/20/2012

took about 53 minutes for my friend and I to get in and successfully add each other into a party, then another 2 1/2 hours later we had completed the beta. Man this games going to be a lot of fun, cant wait. Going to have to try some new characters later.


Cubninja
11:23 PM
4/20/2012

Sweet. Finally got in. Had to go with some low settings, but it appears to be working nicely.


Armor Biff
3:20 PM
4/21/2012

Man ! My timing has been really crappy so far. Everytime I've launched the game, there has been a message about the servers being down for whatever reason.


Armor Biff
3:26 AM
4/22/2012

Finally got to try the game. Played for about an hour, and it was quite enjoyable.

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Release Date: 05.15.2012
Genre: Action RPG
ESRB: Mature

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