United Kingdom, April 22 -- 'Diablo IV' Season 8 will focus on "permanent upgrades" to the base game.

Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed it will be altering its approach to seasonal updates starting with the upcoming 'Season 8: Belial's Return' - which will release on 29 April - as the studio will now be "amplifying and improving" the foundations of the base game instead of concentrating on "throwaway changes".

In a roundtable discussion, 'Diablo IV' lead live game designer Colin Finer said: "It's critically important that we're evolving 'Diablo' and we're not necessarily putting all of our effort on throwaway changes.

"We're really looking at existing features like Nightmare dungeons and Infernal Hordes and levelling those up.

"We ...