Diablo III

Video Game
STUDIO Blizzard Entertainment
RELEASED 2012

Twenty years after 'Diablo II (2000)', Deckard Cain and his niece Leah travel to Tristram where a falling star causes Cain to disappear. The Nephalem (a Barbarian, a Witch Doctor, a Wizard, a Monk or a Demon Hunter) sets out to rescue him.

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Where the Name Actually Comes From

Diablo's name isn't some deep lore reference, it's just geography. Creator David Brevik grew up near Mount Diablo in California, and Blizzard North's studios in Redwood City and San Mateo weren't far from it either, so the name just kind of stuck.

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Whimsyshire, the Cow Level's Weird Cousin

Craft the Staff of Herding and use it on the pink lights between old and new Tristram, and you'll open a portal to Whimsyshire, a candy-coloured field full of teddy bears, unicorns and giant butterflies that turn out to be just as deadly as anything else in the game. It's basically Blizzard's way of keeping the old cow level joke alive.

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