Warner Bros. announces Gauntlet remake that looks a lot like Diablo III
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Warner Bros. announced today that it has commissioned Arrowhead Game Studios to remake Gauntlet, the game that popularized the “hack and slash” dungeon-crawl format when it made its arcade debut in 1985. And while it’s a major name in video game history, efforts to expand the series since the arcade/NES era have been fitful and mostly mediocre. This remake—as seen in the announcement trailer—bears a strong resemblance to Diablo III, which is only fair, as the Diablo series owes some of its design ideas to the old Gauntlet. That said, the new Gauntlet’s borrowing looks more brazen, replete with the colorful sparkles and swirls that make Diablo III such an amusing shiny object.