{"id":1478364,"date":"2021-10-29T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/77445\/diablo-immortal-closed-beta-playable-canada-and-australia\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T11:17:00","slug":"diablo-immortal-closed-beta-now-playable-in-canada-and-australia","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/diablo-immortal-closed-beta-now-playable-in-canada-and-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo Immortal closed beta now playable in Canada and Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/107.21.231.196\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/diablo-immortal-closed-beta-now-playable-in-canada-and-australia.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Following its closed alpha earlier in 2021, <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/tag\/2357\/diablo-immortal\/\">Diablo Immortal<\/a>&nbsp;now begins its closed beta.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Blizzard and NetEase, Diablo Immortal&#8217;s closed beta is only available on Android and in select regions &#8211; currently Canada and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>This is Canada\u2019s first hands-on experience with the game. Those who are invited to play will receive a Google Play notification with details on participation.<\/p>\n<p>The servers in Canada were opened at 5pm Pacific Time yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Servers in Korea, Japan and China are planned to open in the coming weeks, with the game test build available in local languages.<\/p>\n<p>Brand-new content in the beta includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Necromancer class:<\/strong> Reanimate corpses to create an army of the dead, plus inflict curses upon enemies of the Sanctuary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PvP and PvE updates:<\/strong> The Cycle of Strife is enhanced with a 30&#215;1 battle called Challenge of the Immortal. Ladders are being added to the 8v8 Battleground PvP system and there is a new end-game gear system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Controller support:<\/strong> Experience a preview of controller support.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Optional in-game purchases:<\/strong> The option to make in-game purchases is available to test functionality. Since player progress will be wiped after the Closed Beta, any purchases will convert into equivalent in-game credits available in Diablo Immortal at launch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Diablo Immortal Closed Beta will be running for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about it, <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/diablo-immortal\/23734271\/diablo-immortal-closed-beta-overview\">see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/77445\/diablo-immortal-closed-beta-playable-canada-and-australia\/\">Source: http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/news\/77445\/diablo-immortal-closed-beta-playable-canada-and-australia\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1478365,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[]},"genre":[132],"artist":[142],"mood":[],"activity":[],"station_tag":[3855,6045,6031,3624,5974,5384,6032,5788,5808,3794,3857,3741,3876,3877,7968,5457,3636,3638,3859,3815,3772,3773,3643,3646,7770,7722,6389,3648,5877,5567,8436,8437,5226,6478,7280,3775,3885,3668,6015,3867,5270,5632,3675,3684,3686,5748,3690,3692,3892,3852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1478364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1478364"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1478364"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1478364"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1478364"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1478364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}