The following Diablo 4 enlargement received’t be out in 2025, regardless of the studio’s earlier feedback about releasing them yearly. Talking on the DICE Summit in Las Vegas (through Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier), Diablo common supervisor Rod Fergusson stated the follow-up to 2024’s Vessel of Hatred enlargement received’t be out till 2026.
“In his DICE Summit presentation at the moment on constructing a resilient reside service, Diablo GM Rod Fergusson emphasised serving the sport over the plan,” a Blizzard spokesperson informed Polygon. “To that, we’re excited to share that we’re in growth on our second enlargement for Diablo IV, which can debut in 2026.”
A couple of months after Diablo 4 launched in 2023, Fergusson informed Dexerto that new enlargement releases can be annual. When requested about that assertion in a 2024 GameSpot interview, his certainty wavered: “Our gamers need to have extra content material and extra methods to play, however by way of what’s the cadence and the correct quantity is just not one thing I can discuss at the moment.”
At DICE (through IGN), Fergusson stated, “In 2025, or simply earlier than Season 8, we can have a 2025 roadmap for Diablo 4. Now, our second enlargement received’t be on that roadmap, as a result of our second enlargement is coming in 2026, however not less than gamers can have the highway forward.”
In response to IGN, Fergusson stated Vessel of Hatred slipped previous the discharge date Blizzard initially had in thoughts on account of the gargantuan overhaul to the sport’s core techniques final yr. That shift pushed the upcoming enlargement ahead into 2026.
Blizzard hasn’t made any official bulletins about what to anticipate within the subsequent enlargement, however anybody who has completed Vessel of Hatred can have a number of good guesses on the place the story will go subsequent. Within the meantime, the Season of Witchcraft continues to be on, granting gamers seasonal occult powers, like a toxic pet frog.
Replace (8:07 p.m. ET): This story has been up to date with a remark from Blizzard.
