Salt and Sacrifice Launches November 7th for Nintendo Switch and Steam

BlizzCon 2023 is in the books! This year’s show featured a flood of exciting news, and we’re here to recap the latest beats announced for all of your favorite games.

Ska Studios struck gold in 2016 with the release of Salt & Sanctuary, an early entry in the "Souls-like" genre that wore its inspirations on its sleeve. The brutal combat and high-stakes cost of death and resurrection meshed nicely with an original ocean-inspired horror art direction that hammers home the fact that the sea is absolutely terrifying.

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

At Blizzcon 2023, Diablo 4 production director's Tiffany Wat and Chris Wilson announced Diablo 4's first full expansion, which will focus on the prime evil Mephisto, and his influence on the world of Sanctuary. 

Surprise! Diablo 4 only came out a few months ago, but there’s already a brand new Diablo game in the works. Two, in fact! The twist? These will be tabletop adaptations of Blizzard’s action-RPG series, taking Diablo into the realm occupied by Dungeons & Dragons and Catan.

After collaborating with Diablo 4 for Trials of Sanctuary mode, Overwatch 2 is tying up with K-pop band LE SSERAFIM for a new game mode, cosmetics and more on November 1st. While further details are still to come, the music video for the band’s song, “Perfect Night,” showcases what could be upcoming outfits for certain heroes. Check it out below.

The fiery basin of the Burning Hells crackles and sparks in yearning—BlizzCon 2023 will soon be upon us! On November 3–4 in-person attendees can meet their favorite content creators, get a Hell’s Ink flash tattoo, receive a signature from members of the development team and more. For those tuning in from home, we’ll be broadcasting a special Diablo IV Campfire Chat live from the BlizzCon show floor and multiple Diablo-partnered content creators will be livestreaming, which can also be viewed in person by attendees.

Secretfinders, rejoice! A major step in the search for Diablo 4's Cow Level has been completed: a player found out how to obtain the three relics that are needed to access the Forlorn Hovel. Most experts agree that this particular cellar could be the location to open a portal into Sanctuary's parallel cowmension! Diablo 4 Cow Level — What We Know So Far More Secret Cow Level Details Unveiled As it appears, players need to kill exactly 666 cows to get one of the three relics needed to craft a key that opens a secret cellar, which is assumed to be the summoning location for a portal into Diablo 4's Secret Cow Level.

Two unreleased zones for Diablo 4 were spotted in the localization strings of the Steam version. These can be found on SteamDB, a website that utilizes the Steam API to provide a plethora of information. Diablo 4 on SteamDB Diablo 4 Now Available On Steam Only two of the listed zones on SteamDB are not present in the current iteration of Diablo 4, these being Teganze Plains and Torajan Jungles. It is not the first time these zones have shown up in Diablo 4's game files. The zone names were first spotted in the earliest public beta builds of Diablo 4.Some of Diablo 4's localization strings found on SteamDB. The localization strings above, where these zone names were found, are used to show people's location in Sanctuary in the Battle.net friend list among other things. At the moment we can only speculate if these zones were cut early on in the development of Diablo 4 or if they are part of the game's first expansion. But where are the Teganze Plains and Torajan Jungles located and what role do they play in the history of Diablo? Let's take a look at the history of these two regions of Sanctuary!

Salt and Sacrifice, the follow-up to Ska Studios' enormously enjoyable 2D Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary, is making the jump to Switch and Steam (following a period of Epic Games Store exclusivity) on 7th November.

The next big collaboration for Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch 2 is coming November 1st, and it’s Korean pop group LE SSERAFIM. A new game mode inspired by the group and in-game items, like Legendary skins, will go live, with more details coming October 30th.

The Diablo 4 Steam reviews are already ‘mixed,’ as players take to Valve’s platform to share their responses to Blizzard’s RPG alongside the launch of Diablo 4 Season 2. Less than 24 hours since the Diablo IV Steam launch, hundreds of reviews express a combination of praise and criticism, lowering Diablo 4’s current score to less than 60%. While the game has been available on PC since June, its Steam release has attracted under 2,500 players. Meanwhile, Overwatch 2, another Activision Blizzard game recently relaunched on Steam, still has an ‘overwhelmingly negative’ rating based on user reviews.