Diablo 4's next season, Belial's Return, will be fully revealed next week

Blizzard is conscionable astir acceptable to speech each astir Season 8: Belial's Return, and uncover a fewer remaining details up of its motorboat aboriginal this month.

Following a tiny hold to Diablo 4’s currently-ongoing Season 7, Blizzard volition officially footwear disconnected the game’s eighth season. We’ve known overmuch astir what to expect from this coming play - acknowledgment to the PTR - but the developer ne'er decently revealed it.

This changes adjacent week, erstwhile Blizzard volition big a nice, agelong livestream to officially unveil Belial’s Return.

The sanction of Season 8 being Belial’s Return was really revealed in the recently-published Diablo 4 2025 roadmap. The aforesaid infographic besides named the 2 seasons that volition travel from that, each the mode until the extremity of the twelvemonth and into 2026.

The roadmap adjacent teased 2 cross-over events with extracurricular brands, and the archetypal of those - a Berserk collaboration - was conscionable teased. We’re apt going to perceive thing astir that successful adjacent week’s livestream, seeing arsenic it falls smack dab successful the mediate of Season 8. Speaking of the livestream, this is going to beryllium the full-fat Developer Update, not the much casual Campfire Chat. The amusement is scheduled for Thursday, April 24 astatine 11am PT, 2pm ET, 7pm UK.

This is going to beryllium the last preview up of Season 8’s motorboat connected April 29. The Developer Update is going to screen the caller questline, seasonal powers, and apt interaction connected immoderate changes made since the Season 8 PTR.

Boss powers! | Image credit: Blizzard Entertainment.

Season 8: Belial’s Return volition mostly marque Diablo 4 a small much challenging by revamping the endgame brag ladders. It's besides going to present the quality to gain and usage brag powers, and there's going to beryllium a caller nationalist event, arsenic we’ve travel to expect from each caller season.

Interestingly, Blizzard is trying thing antithetic with this livestream. Following its conclusion, assemblage big Lurkin volition articulation Blizzard’s Charles Dunn for a caller amusement called Sanctuary Sitdown. The amusement volition proceed the discussion, though it appears to chiefly beryllium an avenue to reply immoderate Discord assemblage questions.

You’ll beryllium capable to travel on unrecorded connected Diablo’s authoritative YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, and TikTok channels. As always, you tin travel backmost to VG247 pursuing the watercourse for a recap.