{"id":6734,"date":"2026-04-13T20:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/lord-of-hatred-narrative-deep-dive-with-blizzard\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:37:23","slug":"lord-of-hatred-narrative-deep-dive-with-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/lord-of-hatred-narrative-deep-dive-with-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord of Hatred \u2013 Narrative Deep-Dive With Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">We dig deep into the narrative that&#8217;s courses through the heart of Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, the upcoming second expansion for Blizzard&#8217;s popular action-RPG, in this new interview with Associate Game Director Zaven Haroutunian and Lead Narrative Designer Matt Burns.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">In the video above, find out what&#8217;s going on with Mephisto, Lilith, Lorath, and others. And if you&#8217;d like to watch some brand-new Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred gameplay while you&#8217;re here, check out the 21-minute gameplay video below showing off the expansion&#8217;s new Skovos region.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">We&#8217;ll have more on Lord of Hatred later this week as the launch approaches. In the meantime, if you&#8217;re interested in playing Lord of Hatred but it&#8217;s been a minute since you played Diablo 4, get caught up on the story before the second expansion is released. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Ryan McCaffrey is IGN&#8217;s executive editor of previews and host of both IGN&#8217;s weekly Xbox show, <\/em>Podcast Unlocked<em>, as well as our semi-retired interview show, <\/em>IGN Unfiltered<em>. He&#8217;s a North Jersey guy, so it&#8217;s &#8220;Taylor ham,&#8221; not &#8220;pork roll.&#8221; Debate it with him on Twitter at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DMC_Ryan\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>@DMC_Ryan<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We dig deep into the narrative that&#8217;s courses through the heart of Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, the upcoming second expansion for Blizzard&#8217;s popular action-RPG, in this new interview with Associate Game Director Zaven Haroutunian and Lead Narrative Designer Matt Burns. In the video above, find out what&#8217;s going on with Mephisto, Lilith, Lorath, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1313,380,4314,2579,3056],"class_list":{"0":"post-6734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-console-gaming","8":"tag-blizzard","9":"tag-deepdive","10":"tag-hatred","11":"tag-lord","12":"tag-narrative"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}