A ‘Diablo’ Series Is Dungeon Crawling to Netflix
Blizzard Entertainment announced at BlizzCon that it is partnering with Netflix to develop an animated series based on the Diablo franchise. This collaboration appears to resolve previous legal disputes between the two companies regarding their intellectual properties. The announcement suggests that further adaptations of other Blizzard universes may also be in development.
- ▪Blizzard Entertainment and Netflix are collaborating on a new animated Diablo series.
- ▪The partnership follows a past lawsuit between the two companies over Blizzard IP adaptations.
- ▪Blizzard's press release indicates that more projects across their universes are currently taking shape.
- ▪The Diablo game series began in 1996 and recently saw the release of Diablo IV and its Lord of Hatred expansion.
- ▪Netflix has a history of adapting video game franchises, including Castlevania and Sonic the Hedgehog.
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At BlizzCon on Saturday, Blizzard Entertainment announced it was partnering with Netflix to develop an animated Diablo series. Some may recall this show, along with ones for fellow Blizzard IPs Overwatch and World of Warcraft, were caught up in a lawsuit between the two companies years ago. It seems those could still be in play, as Blizzard’s press release notes Diablo’s “only the beginning, with even more taking shape across our…
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