Diablo 4’s new expansion revealed at BlizzCon 2023

Diablo 4’s first expansion is already on the way — slated for late next year — Blizzard announced during its BlizzCon 2023 opening ceremony.

The first paid content update for one of 2023’s best games will take players into yet another region of Sanctuary — the Torajan Jungles from Diablo 2 — and follow up on the Mephisto tease at the end of Diablo 4’s base campaign.

Blizzard is relatively quiet in terms of the features it offers. Vessels of Hatred. However, the game’s developers did reveal that the expansion would come with a brand new class — one that’s completely new to the Diablo universe. Blizzard may reveal further details on the expansion at the Diablo 4 deep dive on Saturday, although with the expansion still “early,” most big reveals will likely wait until sometime next year.

This Diablo game expansion’s timeline is quite different from the previous Diablo games. Diablo 3Launched in a rough condition in 2012, it took the Reaper of SoulsExpansion will arrive in 2014 just shy of 2 years. Blizzard’s approach is more aggressive with Diablo 4 — a game that players have complaints about, to be sure, but which is in a far better state than Diablo 3Six months after its birth, the product is still going strong.

Rod Fergusson of Diablo spoke with Dexerto back in September to discuss this rapid cadence, saying that the entire world must be ready for its annual Diablo 4 expansions. This is an enormous departure from Diablo, which usually only receives one major expansion and then goes through a period of darkness with little (or no) update.

Diablo’s developers are clearly focusing on turning the game into something that people will enjoy. Diablo 4The game is more similar to the original, and more like a service-oriented live game. World of WarcraftYou can also read more about Diablo 3. The team has already delivered the game’s largest patch yet, for season 2, which has done some tremendous work turning the game around from its troubled first season.

Blizzard is launching Diablo IV: Vessels of HatredIn late 2024.