The 3DS is out in Japan, and it’s selling just like.. well.. any other Nintendo console released in the country. That is to say that launch units for the vast majority were sold out by noon on day one, with retailers taking pre-orders for new units scheduled to arrive today.
Gamers were reportedly lining up at midnight for the system’s launch, with lines of 400 to 900 people swarming outside the more major retailers. Some would wait as much as 10 hours before their store opened.
Apparently Nintendo shipped 400,000 units in the first day, which you can bet are pretty much sold out now. Expect to hear more stories of crazy sales as the week goes on.
Attention! If anyone can tell me how to get .gif animations of unique Diablo I monsters with the proper colors, please send me a PM immediately. I’d greatly appreciate it.
What’s New?
As you all well know, the male 
Demon Hunter has been revealed, and as you all probably know we have updates the wiki to reflect this. Now that that’s taken care of, on with the rest of news.
What you may not know is that we have some new articles on the various people behind Diablo. Apoc took the time to add some information about Jason Bender (Senior Designer), Christian Lichtner (Art Director), Micah Whipple (Bashiok), Robert B. Marks (author of Demonsbane) and Mel Odom (author of The Black Road). This is just be beginning, as eventually we’ll continue to expand our wiki with more and more people who’ve helped build Diablo.
The unique monster section for Diablo I has now been completed, and only lacks images for most of them. This leaves this section of the wiki largely complete, with skills being the only section yet to have any articles written on them. This is largely due to the rather complex nature of D1 skills, which involve many different variables to calculate damage. This makes it difficult to create comprehensive tables for the skills (compared to skill in Diablo II like Battle Orders“/>Battle Orders).
Kickin_It has continued to overhaul our category sections. Not much more to say about that: you can see where it’s going by looking at Category:Browse however.
The Diablo II section of the wiki has seen some attention these past two weeks as well however. Zhuge has hoverhauled the Horadric Cube Recipes“/>Horadric Cube Recipes, adding images and and putting all information into tables to better structure the page.
The guide section has also seen a new entrant as well. lMarcusl has added a Tiger Claw Sin to the wiki. This one, like his previous Elementalist Druid, is meant to be able to beat Hell singleplayer. As such it doesn’t feature any high-end gear recommendations that you usually see in a guide. It should however allow you to beat Hell without such gear in any case however, so if you’re considering doing that challenge with an Assassin, then perhaps this is the guide for you.
Finally, there’s now a To-Do List“/>To-Do List in the wiki. This page will be continually updated with various tasks that need to be done in the wiki. If you want to chip in but don’t know where, this is definitely the page you should check out.
(I should also note that I’ve unfortunately destroyed last weeks article spotlight: Dreamflange. If you want to see it in all it’s glory, look here.)
Article Spotlight
This week it’s a little bit of lore, though probably not much for the alraedy savvy. Kabraxis is an apparently prominent demon who has to date only been present in The Black Road. After the Prime Evils he’s probably the demon to have wreaked the most havoc in modern times in Sanctuary, so much as to draw the ire of the Three upon himself even. Though it is unknown whether everything told in the book is canon or not, Kabraxis is still an interesting demon in the Diablo Universe worth knowing about.
How Can You Help?
Aside from the previously mentioned To-Do List, there are many sections in the wiki that need improving. Most glaring is perhaps the lore section of our wiki, which oftentimes simply lacks content yet more often citations, images or clear paragraph structure. If you know your lore and see an article missing something, don’t hesitate to add your knowledge to the wiki.
Update: An update from Netdevil parent Gazillion Entertainment brings some clarity. The company says it’s agreed to sell its development stake in LEGO Universe to the LEGO Group, with most of the people who worked on the game at NetDevil receiving offers to make the jump as well.
As for Gazillion; “The transition of members of our team to the LEGO Group enables us to focus completely on internally-published, free-to-play game businesses,” according to president and COO David Brevik.
Original story: Lego Universe developer NetDevil seems to be the next in line to suffer layoffs, and its future existence might just be in jeopardy. According to employees – and former ones, apparently – the company is “on the brink” of closure as a large portion of the staff received calls overnight from management and being informed of their redundancy. Numerous people affected by the situation have even posted images of a tombstone with “NetDevil R.I.P” engraved on it.
Animator on Lego Universe Toby Cochran wrote on his blog about the situation, saying “unfortunately a lot of talented folks lost their jobs as I’ve been finding out on Facebook! I personally think it’s pretty terrible to find news out that way and not to be correctly notified.”
Cochran added, “from what we’ve been told a handful of artists will be kept on board and continue working on Lego Universe. But at the moment that will be a very, VERY small team. As the count continues to rise on FB, they’ve cut over 20 people.”
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