Sanctuary goes portable

If there's one thing Blizzard has gotten good at over the years, it's misdirection. With fansites and savvy fans constantly watching for hints as to upcoming World of Warcraft expansions, the developer has had to get good at filing false trademarks around the world to keep you guessing until they were ready to reveal the true expansion. It seems Blizzard was doing some misdirection an even grander scale in 2016, when they mimicked Nintendo's NX reveal tweet with Hearthstone's innkeeper. Fast forward a little more than a year later, and Neoseeker has learned that the company may in fact be working on something for the Switch, but it's not Hearthstone. This information has been corroborated by insider Marcus Sellars, who broke the news of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and its potential Switch port earlier this month, so we feel pretty confident about it.

Sure, the pick up and play nature of Hearthstone would make the freemium card game a natural fit for the Switch's portable mode, if a bit awkward to play docked, but we've learned that Blizzard instead is looking to bring Diablo III and the Lord of Terror himself to Nintendo's latest console. According to our source, Blizzard is looking to implement local play with multiple Switches, allowing you to team up for local co-op action as you run around Sanctuary to stop Diablo.

We've reached out to Blizzard for comment, but haven't heard back as of yet. It's suspected that the Switch port would be announced at Nintendo's E3 event, or possibly by Blizzard themselves at either Gamescom or Blizzcon later in the year. If this rumor pans out, we can look forward to Diablo III arriving on the Nintendo Switch at some point in early 2019.