Hey all!
Mini-review of Diablo 3: It’s just like Diablo 2, but with extremely good graphics, loads of polish and annoying always on DRM…
The DRM part has run a lot of ink in the gaming press… For me, I was annoyed by it twice (on the launch, since I had to wait 45 minutes to get online), and on last Sunday (when the service was down for 6 hours or so).
I understand why people are angry, but I also understand why Blizzard went this route (and had the problems they had)…
Anyway, I’m guessing this will be the future on the PC gaming market, as annoying as it is…
Other than that, the game is loads of fun, the perfect implementation of a Skinnerbox, polished to perfection… You just need “one more level”, “one more zone”, and do it again and again and again and again… 
Good lessons there, for game designers…
I’m giving it a 8/10 (loses 1 point due for the DRM and 1 point for half-assed story). But again, I can’t stress this enough… It’s really really really really a lot of fun!
On the game development front, XCOM-Enemy Unknown is looking great:
The base gameplay might shape up to be awesome! 
Finally, head on down to the Spellcaster Studios website, we have a new blog post with what we’ve been doing lately!