Diablo 4 will reportedly release in April 2023

Diablo 4
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Another day, another release day rumor, this one about Blizzard's upcoming Diablo 4.

If these reports are true, the highly-anticipated RPG will reportedly open up for pre-orders next month, launch in early access in February, and be fully released in April 2023.

That's according to the XboxEra podcast - and backed up by Windows Central - which believe we'll have these Diablo 4 details confirmed at the upcoming The Game Awards, which is set for December 8.

Is it a certainty? Certainly not. But it all sounds perfectly possible, not least because the RPG is already in (leaky) closed beta testing, so an open beta test is the next logical step, of course. 

Did you read that Diablo 4 players can look forward to a game that just keeps on giving, with the game's general manager Rod Fergusson saying that there will be "thousands of hours" of fun to be had?

"You have to have a kickass campaign, it has to have great context and a great story, you have to know why the world is the way it is and set it all up," he said recently. "After players complete the campaign you're unleashing them into a game that hopefully will entertain them for thousands of hours."

"In the past, we haven't had that opportunity for people to go in and say 'this is the starting point, this is certainly not the end'," Fergusson points out. He goes on to say that he wants the game to feel rich, adding that the end should be the point where the live service begins - a process he likens to making a good soup.

If that sounds like your idea of fun, there's a Diablo 4 open beta expected to kick off in the early part of 2023, which is good news for some of the Diablo fans who are a little apprehensive about how Blizzard plans to monetize the upcoming RPG following its messy Overwatch 2 and Diablo Immortal launches. 

Don't want to wait? These are the best games like Diablo that you can play right now instead.

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