A real-time, squad-based tactical survival horror rather than the blazing shooter you might expect, this unbearably tense strategy game takes pages from the Xcom playbook, but gives them a unique and effective twist as you and your squad climb aboard an express elevator to hell. It might have taken the better part of four decades, but this year we were finally presented with an Aliens adaptation worthy of the title. It took almost a decade for Ishin! to make it out of Japan, but this modern remake was worth the wait. Factor in all the compulsive side-games the wider series is known for, and it's a good time in the (very) old town. Ryoma seamlessly switching between four combat styles – Swordsman, Gunman, Brawler, and the gun/sword dual wielding ‘Wild Dancer’ – makes for beautiful carnage, while a new ‘Virtue’ system unlocks more abilities.

It's that sort of bonkers approach that has won fans’ admiration over the decades, but this doesn't rely on gimmicks – it packs in some of the series’ best action yet. That's its actual in-game cast, mind – which means Yakuza's Kazuma Kiryu ‘starring’ as ronin Sakamoto Ryoma (both voiced by actual human Takaya Kuroda), and a host of other familiar faces cropping up in new roles for Ishin!'s 1860s setting. Blizzard is promising that there will be six Diablo classes at launch (Barbarian, Crusader, Demon Hunter, Monk, Necromancer, and Wizard) as well as regularly introducing new storylines, playable characters and new challenges.Ī release date for Diablo Immortal has not been set, but a beta is expected to launch either later this year or sometime in the early stages of 2019.A spin-off of the wider Like A Dragon series (formerly Yakuza), Ishin! takes its cast of noble criminals and transplants them to the Bakumatsu era for a tale at the end of Japan's Edo period. Now sure, people are entitled to take interest on what they please, but this seems like a full Diablo experience, albeit on a mobile platform.

Now, it’s one thing to pop your hot takes onto Twitter, but to put this kind of question to a Blizzard representative in front of an auditorium of people, after the team has excitedly announced their new game, is downright disrespectful and disgusting.

One fan asked if this announcement was an “out of season April Fool’s joke”. It was another question though that was really unsettling. The dev then asked the crowd if “none of them had mobiles”. The dev responded with the fact that it would only come to mobile only to be faced with a crowd full of boos. One fan asked if the game would come to PC at all or if it were strictly mobile (a great question, albeit delivered with quite a condescending tone).

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