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DiabloFans now has an unofficial iPhone App, Diablo III Armory. It's not exactly made solely by us DiabloFans (but it is made by a good friend of ours), and it's pulling our news stream, so you can get DiabloFans news from just about anywhere now! In addition to our news feed, the App offers the following:

• News feed from diablofans.com
• Game information page (FAQ)
• Classes page to showcase each class and their skills.
• A skill calculator built completely for the iPhone platform.
• Easy swiping while viewing skills to see rune effects.
• Calculator can save/name builds, load them later, and even print out a Bnet URL of your build (in case you want to share it).
• And more to come, ;).

The app is completely free as well, so go download it and enjoy Sanctuary from anywhere on Earth! Those of you with Android devices (I only have an Android :() will have to wait for an app. Whether or not we develop an Android app as well is solely based on the success of the iPhone app. For more screenshots of the app, you can check the temporary support site, or watch the video below.

As most of you are already aware, a few of the various Blizzard Influencers and fansites have been given beta keys (see our beta key image above?) to give away to our dearest fans, ;). Since we know that you're all hungering for the Beta, we're going to keep it short, sweet, and to the point! Each week, we're going to have a screenshot to show and your job is to add a caption. Whether the caption be epic or completely for the lulz, we don't care! We'll choose the best one or two entries each week and they'll be granted a Diablo III Beta Key.

To edit in your caption, you can just toss this image into MSPaint or any other photo editing program, add a few thought or speech bubbles, and go to town! You can then upload your screenshot to your Gallery here on DiabloFans, or any other image sharing service you choose. This week's screenshot is...


Submissions can just be posted here and you are allowed more than one entry if you like! These will run Saturday to Saturday, every week for the next few weeks. Winners will be picked on Saturday and the next screenshot will go up.

Quote from Jackzor

Ok. Any update on when we're doing the beta key contest? This could probably wait till after that if we're putting up the contest soon. Either way one of my articles (this or the mantra one) will/should imo wait until after the contest. Or both. Although we could just wait for the hype surrounding other beta contests to subside before starting ours.

Mmkay, I'll put the contest up today, save this for tomorrow night then.

So do we, ;).

That's right! The Foo Fighters have just been announced as the band that will be playing at this years' BlizzCon and TAFKAL80ETC will be returning and opening for them! For quite some time, it was speculated that deadmau5 would be doing the concert due to his recent trip to BlizzHQ. Whether or not either of them could top Tenacious D will be something we'll have to wait and see, though... How can you top Jack Black? Then again, the same was said about Ozzy; we all wondered how exactly Blizzard would top him...


In addition, the Sons of the Storm will be returning for their very own signing panel as usual.

Also worth mentioning, the BlizzCon Media section has just recently been updated to include a ton of media from every BlizzCon thus far, as well as the few World Wide Invitationals. Anyone who wants to get a feel of what the environment is like should go check it out!

It appears as if Press have begun being added to the Beta. Whether or not this is still the Friends & Family Beta or the next phase (Closed Beta), there are no signs. As of current, all we know is that Press have been given Beta access right now, which does bring us one step closer! This means that myself, ScyberDragon, Magistrate, Force, and ProzaicMuze will be playing and providing streams/coverage in the near future... Stay tuned, ;).

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UPDATE: It's official! The Closed Beta has now begun... This means those of you opting in can potentially receive invites.

Not only did we just launch our Skill/Rune Calculator last night, we now have a few more new and cool features in our arsenal to show off to you guys! Today, I would like to introduce to you all the Streams section of our website, where you can find live streams of the D3 Beta, moving forward into the release of the game.


Now, in my opinion, the cooler feature of the two is the new 3D Model Viewer we've just added to the DiabloWiki. Ever want to see exactly what your hero looks like? How about what some of the crazy monsters that you face throughout Sanctuary? With the power of our viewer, now you can see a full 360 view every part of Sanctuary you could possibly think of! To get things started, we've got the NPC's and Items already up on the site, with the rest to follow soon.

The third F&F Beta patch has just gone live and it re-introduced the Public Game system as well as helping a heads up on the upcoming Auction House!


To read up on the second patch, see here.

We're working on a database for DiabloFans, don't worry. It'll be 10x better than anything else, :).

The second patch of the Diablo III Friends & Family Beta has just been released! As expected, it's really all just bug fixes, though it seems they have changed the Character Skill UI. I'm actually really diggin' the Skill UI changes, we no longer have to scroll through the list of skills to see everything! Yay!


The first patch, 7238 was not pushed to users.