Westwood Studios denied rumors that their female Necromancer Hecubah has been seen palling around with Blizzard's giant bull-headed demon. "We're just friends, ok?" the bewitching albino villain exclaimed in exasperation.

The Interplay marketing genius responsible for releasing the excellent but sure to be neglected Icewind Dale at roughly the same time as Diablo 2 has been executed. His head has been mounted on the battlements at Baldur's Gate.

Diablo 2 reportedly shipped 2 million units to stores and actually sold 130,000 copies in its debut week. To put that in perspective Quicksilver recently crowed that their 4 year old Conquest of the New World game just hit the 500,000 sales mark. That's worldwide sales, folks, and it includes the Deluxe edition.

Old news? Well, PCGamer is reporting it so it might be very old news. Anyway, it seems industry veteran and Country music legend John Cash has left id Software and joined up with Blizzard for an unnamed project. Sources say it will be a massively multiplayer game about a burning ring of something or somesuch.