{"id":24612,"date":"2012-04-20T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T11:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=24612"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:50:30","slug":"play-diablo-iii-open-beta-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/play-diablo-iii-open-beta-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Diablo III open beta this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/play-diablo-iii-open-beta-this-weekend\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24616\" title=\"Diablo III Open Beta Weekend\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/04\/diablo3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>Blizzard Entertainment&#8217;s fantasy\/horror game <a href=\"http:\/\/diablo-iii.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Diablo III<\/strong><\/a> comes out on May 15th, and the beta version is open for anyone to play this weekend. You&#8217;ll need to sign up for a free account and download the client, then you can get down to slaughtering demons!<\/p>\n<p>The beta isn&#8217;t massively long, but it gives you a taste of how the game  has been improved. The general feeling I got was one of smoothness &#8211;  Diablo III is really slick, and everything just seems to work as it  should. The sound is excellent, and visually it manages to be dark  enough while keeping everything clear.<\/p>\n<p>Read on for a video of Diablo III gameplay.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Diablo III<\/strong> looks like an evil mix of the addictive gameplay fans know and love, while being dangerously easy to get into for newcomers. This open beta weekend is a great opportunity to get your mouse-clicking finger trained up and ready for battle when the full game is released next month!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign up for a <a href=\"http:\/\/us.battle.net\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Battle.net account<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/us.battle.net\/account\/download\/index.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">game client<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard Entertainment&#8217;s fantasy\/horror game Diablo III comes out on May 15th, and the beta version is open for anyone to play this weekend. You&#8217;ll need to sign up for a free account and download the client, then you can get down to slaughtering demons! The beta isn&#8217;t massively long, but it gives you a taste &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/play-diablo-iii-open-beta-this-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Play Diablo III open beta this weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2809],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-24612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiondiablo-iii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333841,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612\/revisions\/333841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24612"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=24612"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=24612"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=24612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}