Blizzard Announces New Animated ‘Diablo’ Series Coming to Netflix

Blizzard president Johanna Faries announced the project during the opening ceremony of BlizzCon 2026.

ByTrey Alston
September 12, 2026

Key Takeaways

• Blizzard Entertainment confirmed on Saturday that an animated series based onDiablo is in development at Netflix, announced by president Johanna Faries at BlizzCon 2026 in Anaheim.
• Johanna Faries called herself a Diablo player and said the show is “just the beginning,” hinting at future projects for the Overwatch and Warcraft communities.
• The announcement lands on the franchise’s 30th anniversary, alongside a first look at Diablo V for spring 2029 and a new Amazon class coming to Diablo IV.
• A Netflix Diablo adaptation has circled the platform since 2018, with an earlier anime-style version scrapped over legal issues before this new version emerged.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that it’s bringing the world of Diabloto Netflix as an animated series.

Blizzard president Johanna Faries made the announcement during the opening ceremony of BlizzCon 2026 at the Anaheim Convention Center on Saturday (September 12).

“We are thrilled to share that we are in development on a new animated series for Diablo with Netflix,” she said. “As a bigDiablo player myself, and as someone who loves the indulgent darkness of Sanctuary, I am very excited to see this project come to life.”

Faries also made clear the studio does not intend to stop at one franchise. “And Diablo, I promise, is just the beginning,” she said. “To our Overwatch community, to our Warcraftcommunity, and who knows, maybe even some of our other universes, just know there are great discussions being had, and trust me, while I begged and pleaded to be able to say more today, I can’t spill the beans just yet.”

Blizzard’s upcoming Diabloseries wasn’t the only announcement made at BlizzCon. The company also showed a first glimpse of Diablo V, set for spring 2029, and revealed the Amazon as the next class heading to Diablo IV.World of Warcraft Forever, an expanded take on the 2004 original, arrives in November, and an open-world StarCraft 3 is slated for 2030.

A Diablo series has been circling Netflix for years. Rumors surfaced in 2018, and by February 2020, then Activision Blizzard Studios co-president Nick van Dyk claimed on social media that an anime-style adaptation was in pre-production for the platform.

This is also the first BlizzCon since Microsoft closed its $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard in 2023.

Netflix’s Diabloseries will join Castlevania in Netflix’s roster of game-derived animation.