MacBook Pro getting extremely hot playing Diablo 3

Hello, is it normal my Mac (mid 2014), i5 + 8 gigs of ram to become EXTREMELY hot when playing Diablo 3 ? It literally blows extremely hot air from the little holes that are near by the folding mechanism. I mean 1)I guess that is not good for the Mac 2) it is very bad for the part of the display that gets the hot air. So is there anything I can do to stop this ?

Ah, well I'm away from home at the moment so no DVD.
However, it is the UK trading standards act that tells me that any product is supposed to last without fault a reasonable time, based on the amount you paid for. So a £10 toaster isn't exactly good for 3 years, but a £1,000 Macbook Pro would be expected to last more than a year.
At the moment, the way this is going, I'm seriously damaging my CPU lifespan, it's constantly at 70c, the fan is constantly spinning, and the battery is constantly draining. I had 1 tab open on Firefox 4, it was a forum, with no ads, no flash, just text and basic pictures and my CPU is 70C.
So I think something is wrong with my Macbook.
I'm going to ring up Trading standards, get them to advise me what to do, then ring up Apple and tell them from the get go that I know my rights as a UK customer and that I expect a repair, replacement (of equal or greater value) or a refund. Either would be good.

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