If Diablo is good in single-player, it's a phenomenal multiplayer game. On the second try, we teamed up as the Witchdoctor with a Warrior. We would run in first - scattering the enemies with the fear ability, before unleashing the zombie dogs. They'd hold down two, five, ten monsters each, while the warrior concentrated on the harder foes, elites and rares. As our meat-head friend took his time, we threw in fire bombs and corpse spiders. It's funny to watch the undead explode.

Can Diablo do more than co-op? Could it ever be a competitive multiplayer game? Jay says his team is 'exploring it', even if they've got nothing yet to show for their efforts. The original Diablo dungeon crawls had the option to duel, but, as Jay points out, "it was tacked on, a button that you'd just enable. We'd like to give it a bit more thought than that." The irony is that the Diablo community took duelling seriously, even if Blizzard did little to support it. "We'd like to serve that community, and put real time and effort into making it much more than an afterthought," is all Jay will say.