CD Projekt Red is bringing its games to Battle.net. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered was announced for the platform at Gamescom, and Cyberpunk 2077, with its Phantom Liberty expansion, is coming to Battle.net later this year. As part of the crossover, CDPR and Blizzard also revealed a Geralt of Rivia skin for Diablo 4's Barbarian class, shown off during BlizzCon 2026's 30 Years of Battle.net panel. However, getting the skin isn't as simple as owning Diablo 4, though. It unlocks by pre-ordering The Witcher 3's upcoming Songs of the Past expansion on Battle.net. Buying the expansion after launch works too, so pre-ordering isn't mandatory, but the purchase has to go through Battle.net either way, leaving out anyone who plays on Steam, GOG, or console.

Since The Witcher 3 has been out for over a decade, most existing owners already have it somewhere other than Battle.net; therefore, the skin effectively requires buying the game again on a new storefront. Fans have pushed back on that restriction online, and some also criticized how the skin looks, since it has to fit within the Barbarian's existing hitbox and moveset instead of being fully custom. The requirement also came out right after Blizzard confirmed Diablo 4 won't get more expansions before Diablo 5, so some players are questioning the purchase entirely. CD Projekt Red hasn't said whether the skin will eventually be sold on its own to Diablo 4 owners, though given the reaction, that seems likely.

Diablo 5 is officially targeting a Spring 2029 release window, and the studio is now filling in story details about the world players will inhabit. Narrative director Jennifer Hepler explained that the protagonist shares what she called a "unique bond" with Diablo himself. "As you play, you find out how and why it came to be," she said, adding that this connection is what lets the character face the Lord of Terror while also leaving them vulnerable to his power. That link apparently opens the door to the Terror Realm, Diablo's personal domain, which players can enter and survive, something Hepler says unlocks unspecified new abilities the team isn't ready to detail yet.

The bigger structural change is that there are apparently no towns anymore. Since Diablo already won by the time the game starts, there are no functioning settlements left, so players build a traveling caravan instead, picking up merchants, craftspeople, and companions along the way. Blizzard is also introducing what it calls Terror Forming, where the world visibly changes each time players return to a location, courtesy of corrupting Dread Commanders reshaping the terrain. Three years is a long wait, but Blizzard will probably keep drip-feeding these updates before launch, which at least gives fans plenty to argue about in the meantime.

Blizzard has officially announced Diablo 5 at BlizzCon 2026, confirming a Spring 2029 release window for the next mainline entry in its action RPG series. The reveal came during the event's opening ceremony alongside a cinematic marking Diablo's 30th anniversary. According to game director Joe Shely, the story picks up a century after Diablo 4, and this time Sanctuary has already fallen. Diablo has won, and it looks like players will be dealing with the aftermath rather than trying to stop it from happening. That's certainly a departure from how past entries have opened.

Diablo 5 is set to be the first mainline game built around a post-apocalyptic Sanctuary from the start, and a follow-up panel added that it will launch with the Demon Hunter and Monk returning, plus a new class called the Plague Knight. Blizzard hasn't said much about gameplay beyond that, so it's hard to say yet how the survival premise will actually play out mechanically. Diablo 4 isn't going anywhere in the meantime. Blizzard says it will keep supporting the game until Diablo 5 arrives, with an Amazon class pack planned for 2027. Three years is a long runway before launch, though BlizzCon teasers like this one usually mean at least a few updates trickle out along the way.