Hot on the heels of the new game director posting earlier, it has come to light that Josh Mosquiera has now departed Blizzard.

Josh was a great addition to the Diablo team and managed to salvage the game somewhat after the launch mess. A statement from Blizzard reads:

“With Diablo III in a good place at this point, Josh felt that now was a good time to pursue other opportunities with minimal impact to the team. We’ll be filling the director role either from within Blizzard or externally. Josh made many contributions during his time here, and we loved working with him, We wish him all the best and look forward to his future work.”

I think we can all agree Josh did a good job with the game following Jay Wilson’s departure and we wish him well with his new ventures.

With this new information we still don’t know what will happen with the new game director position but it would seem odd to bring a new person in now for an expansion. Perhaps Diablo IV is on the cards?