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Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred

2026 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred is a major expansion pack for the action role-playing dungeon crawling game Diablo IV, developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the second major expansion for the game, following Vessel of Hatred. It was released on April 28, 2026, for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and Windows.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Diablo, Lord and Hatred is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.