Even with two other Diablo games coming down the pipe, Blizzard remains committed to its work on Diablo Immortal. The publisher has grand aspirations to make the mobile take on its long-running action RPG franchise into an authentic Diablo experience. But how far are they willing to go to make that happen? Shacknews recently pitched questions from our community to Lead Game Producer Caleb Arseneaux and Senior System Designer Kris Zierhut to learn more. We do get this question quite a lot, as you can imagine, Arseneaux told Shacknews in regards to the question of gamepad support. It s something that we heard loud and clear from the tech alpha and it s something we re investigating right now. And I say investigating not to be just vague in a PR setting, but because honestly our focus has been touch controls and making sure that felt really good. We hadn t put any effort into also making sure gamepad support was there. And so there s design and usability and accessibility things t
Diablo Immortal Team Is Not Necessarily Going to Block Emulation
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Diablo Immortal is a mobile game through and through with no announced plans to have it available on any other platform, but that doesn’t mean Diablo fans will always be playing
Diablo Immortal on the screen right in front of them. Just as people are now becoming more accustomed to playing console games off their primary devices through cloud gaming and other methods, things like Apple’s AirPlay or Google’s Chromecast have enabled people to play their mobile games on larger devices and screens. Emulation is also another common method for playing mobile games without a dedicated mobile device, and when it comes to emulation and