Blizzard confirms console Diablo 3 production (again)

By Will Porter for computerandvideogames.com

All you have to do is ask and you shall receive, it seems. All it took was one twitter user, a dashing hunk called @TanGoIX, to ask Blizzard community manager @Bashiok one fabled question: "Can you confirm or deny Diablo 3 coming to consoles?" The response? "Yup. Josh Mosqueira is lead designer for the Diablo console project."

Of course though, Diablo 3 for consoles is long-rumoured, long-reported and long sort-of confirmed by Blizzard. At BlizzCon, Diablo 3 game director Jay Wilson said: "We are still in active exploring mode; we haven't officially announced a product. We say that because we like our product announcements to be a big deal. We haven't been as secretive about this one because our biggest barrier is actually getting a console team."

Now, however, that team appears to be in place and led by Josh Mosqueira - a man with a solid pedigree from his work as design director on Relic's Company of Heroes games.

Those fearing a straight port from the PC version though (or vice versa) can rest easy, as Wilson's again said at BlizzCon: "Our goal is to make a game that feels like it's natively made for a console. If we make it, we want it to feel like a Blizzard game and that we built it for that platform from the ground up."

Will it need an always-on internet connection, though Blizz? If not, that's one-nil to the consoles. (/deliberate wind-up)