Netflix announces Diablo animated series

This weekend marks the latest incarnation of BlizzCon, Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablovideo game creator <a href="https://comicvibe.com/blizzard-announces-new-animated-diablo-series-coming-to-netflix/” title=”Blizzard Announces New Animated 'Diablo' Series Coming to Netflix”>Blizzard Entertainment’s annual celebration of its fans. (Also: Itself.) Although slightly overshadowed by the far more interesting news, earlier this week, that the company’s nearly 2,000 union employees have just ratified a new contract, the Con has had some big gaming announcements roll out, including a new StarCraftshooter planned for 2030, and the expected arrival of Diablo Vin 2029.

For those people who prefer to take in their gaming content more passively, though, Blizzard (and parent company Microsoft) (and massive streamer Netflix) did still have at least one big surprise saved up: A new animated series set in the world of the Gothic and bloody Diablogames, currently in development for the streamer.

PerVariety, very few details about the series have been revealed—Blizzard hasn’t said who’s animating it, or when it’s expected to arrive, noting only that “this is only the beginning, with even more taking shape across our universes.” But we canventure a few guesses as to what it’ll look and sound like: A whole lot of muscular people swinging swords at giant demons while old men invite you to stay awhile and listen to their various lore dumps about the never-ending wars between Heaven and Hell. (Source: Having played basically any Diablogame, ever.)

This news is, honestly, more interesting in light of recent reports that Microsoft was getting kind of jealous of its PlayStation rival Sony’s successes in TV over the last few years; the tech giant has reportedly been shopping around packages of its various gaming brands, trying to find another show that will do as well as its Falloutis currently doing on Prime Video (and erase the low-level shame of the HaloTV adaptation from everybody’s memories for good). It’s not clear if Netflix has signed any kind of wider deal with Microsoft or Blizzard, or if it’s just continuing the model it kicked off with its Castlevaniaanimated show several years back: Cartoon adaptations of some of gaming’s biggest brands that make fans happy, without swinging for huge live-action price tags like the Last Of UsTV adaptation, or the upcoming God Of War.