Diablo II remake has been handed over to Vicarious Visions, a Bloomberg report suggests. This follows the recent acquisition of Blizzard Entertainment of Vicarious Visions, which last worked on the successful remake Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 under Activision. Vicarious Visions has previously worked on Oceanhorn, Halo Wars, Medal of Honor: Warfighter and Munch's Oddysee. Diablo II remake is Valve's last developed game before they take on the development of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. Though, Valve's official statement hasn't made mention of this sale yet.

This news comes leading up to the Winter Olympic Games closing ceremony on January 13 in Sochi, Russia, where Valve will have the opportunity to demo not one, but two games to the hundreds of thousands of fans who will attend the 18th Winter Games. The games revealed would be Dota 2 and Dota 2 Heroes of the Storm.

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Both Dota 2 and Dota 2 Heroes Online have already been released. Dota 2 has over 3 million active users on Steam and released nearly 1,400 updates since 2006, offering 40 additional updates since 2013 alone. Dota 2 Heroes Online and Heroes of the Storm are both built on the same engine as Ultimate General: Gettysburg, the antecedent for the new release after Diablo 2 brought development to Vicarious Visions in 2011.

Diablo games are notable for their rich levels of mod support and cartoony visual style, visceral heroes, meticulously detailed enemies and materials, X-Ray mode, and specialized short stories and conflict using specific hero classes, enemy types, and terrain. The second game in the series, Diablo to Hell – Jason talks about Reset decreeing what Oxford calls Island Be we'll be back next month! for Diablo 2 Hell – Jess displays what happened before the events of Diablo 2. Links at WePlayDC provided on Heroic will take you to (ab) use videos or walk-throughs to illustrate how the game worked in action.

Derek Yu from Double Fine, previously executive producer, producer and co-director of Toy Story 3, told us in 2014, "Business was supposed to be tough, but we've always been lucky… Nothing's gone as planned in the six years we've been making games, and we're just trying to do our best to keep the craft as vibrant as we can. We have a direction but we still need the people doing the art that's telling the story to work together in good faith and try to create something great."

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