Talk about a big announcement! Blizzard has officially unleashed Diablo V upon the world. Well, nearly. It won’t be out until Spring 2029.

And that’s all we know for now. There will be an official Diablo V: Forging the Next Era panel held today at 1:45pm PT, so I’ll update this article if any useful details emerge from that.

For now, all we have is this suitably dramatic trailer with an equally dramatic female narrator telling us, “The Angels were supposed to save us. What survived were bleeders and rotters.”

“Diablo V takes players into a Sanctuary that has fallen. The heroes are gone, and Diablo has won,” says Blizzard.

Not much to go on then. But what is worth discussing is how quickly Diablo V is launching after Diablo IV, which came out in June of 2023. There’s already a flurry of comments on the Diablo V trailer of people saying stuff like “I feel like Diablo 4 just came out.” And they’re right. It did.

Other people are also pointing out that Diablo 4 is also only just starting to hit its stride. Hell, most people were expecting a new expansion for it, rather than a sequel.

This feels like a reaction from Xbox, a need to get more stuff announced to get people excited, because announcing a sequel this far ahead of its launch and this close to the last game is kind of stupid. At this point, though, it feels like an Xbox tradition to announce games well before they are ever due to release, like Fable. And Blade.

Right now, Diablo V isn’t a game. It’s a logo and a trailer and some vague promises for a few years down the bloody line.