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According to the unofficial Diablo site diabloii.net tips and rumours coming from "reliable" sources point to the long awaited Diablo 3 being announced at WWI Paris 2008.

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Diablo 3 Announcement at WWI
25th Jun 2008 04:56 PM GMT by Rushster 32 comments

With this week's speculation over the Blizzard teasers, more and more reports in the media, and numerous tips coming direct us at IncGamers from reliable inside industry sources in the past 24 hours, we now have confirmation from inside sources to say that Diablo 3 WILL be announced on Saturday at WWI Paris 2008.

With that in mind, we would like to invite Diabloii.net readers to submit their questions for us to ask Blizzard.

This is extremely exciting for all of us here at Diabloii.net. For the past 10 years we have been supporting the Diablo community and to have something completely new to sink our teeth into is fantastic. We will be at the show on Saturday for the announcement and also the press conference which is directly after, so expect reports from the show floor live, interviews and much more.





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It seems that "a game" will at the very least be announced at WWI. Not that we are surprised, but it's nice to get a confirmation by a slip (?) of tongue from Rob Pardo at DGC Paris. GamesIndustry.biz reports that:

In a question and answer session that concluded this year's GDC Paris, Pardo was asked directly if he could talk more about "the new game" that rumours have strongly suggested will be Diablo 3.

"So you want me to announce the game before our announcement?" he said. "No offense, but I think there's like 300 people here, and I'll be ripped apart by 8000 people there [at the Invitational] if I pre-announce it - but it's going to be really exciting. I think everybody here will be really excited about the announcement."


Now, that doesn't mean that it will be a Diablo 3 announcement, but there is more information on why it will be Diablo 3 here.



http://www.diabloii.net/ <---- see link for more info

Ooh exciting times people, exciting times ;)


I apologize in advance if this has already been posted.


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I would get my hopes up but every time I have in the past they've been squashed

It's probably going to just be a release date for SC2, or WotLK, or else something totally different (World of Guitar Hero!)

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SUCK ON THAT ROB WRIGHT


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YESSSSSSSSSS

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Oh Snap wrote :

SUCK ON THAT ROB WRIGHT




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robwright wrote :

"What the f--- did I do?"
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You shattered my hope with your Diablo 3 article a while ago


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Oh. That. Yeah....


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It seems at this point, any announcement other than D3 will cause massive amounts of Barrens chat to implode all WoW servers.

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Meh. Diablo was just a boring, repetitive clickfest.


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What? No replies to my obvious flame-bait? *sigh*


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there all wise to you llama_man.

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I was gonna reply.. something along the line of bejeweled, cod4, wow, no different, just what we see.


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The image up here today with the glowing eyes certainly leans more towards Diablo 3, but what's the snow?

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c'mon Diablo junkies IT'S BAAL! ;)

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Wow, this would be sick...no offence to Starcraft fans...but Diablo IMO is the biggest title Blizzard could ever bring back. I'll be following up with this on Saturday.


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tmeacham wrote :

The image up here today with the glowing eyes certainly leans more towards Diablo 3, but what's the snow?


Hell froze over?

 

There's an interesting theory they have over at Diabloii.net regarding the naming scheme for the secret images:
http://www.diabloii.net/n/667546/b [...] 4#comments

 

At first they though the numbers in the hidden images corresponded to the english alphabet, and until today it was looking like D, O, W could end up spelling DASHOW, one of the artists that worked on Diablo II (who coincidentally had a "purple walrus" as his sort of trademark), but now it's looking like the numbers from Lost.

 

This stands out to me quite heavily from the Lost wiki:

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http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/The_Numbers
It has been revealed in The Lost Experience that these six numbers are the core values of the Valenzetti Equation, a mathematical formula designed to predict the end of humanity.

 

This isn't StarCraft II related, and Blizzard has no reason to have such an extensive teaser just to announce a release date for Wrath of the Lich King.

 

You can read more about the previous days here: http://www.sclegacy.com

 

Also, something else that's interesting, quoted from: http://www.sc2pod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1490#p1490

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just try this domain => http://www.battle.net/forums/board [...] d3-general

 

it says that the forums are down atm

 

if this forum wouldn't exist it should redirect you to the mainpage, like http://www.battle.net/forums/board [...] e=blahblah

 

Also from Sc2pod:

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Using the image numbers as sperate digits, and applying them to their corresponding css class names to get the letters, using 0 as the first letter in each word you can get 2 letters per day.

 

Tundra - 04: T, R
Glacier - 15: L, E
Icy - 23: Y, I
Cold - 16: O, L

 

Knowing that there will be 4 more letters, you can create TYR_EL I_ LO__

 

With the The Valenzetti Equation from Lost being 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 which so far fits the numbers we have, the final result can probably be guessed to be

 

TYRAEL IS LOST

 

So then, 08 will be Artic, giving us, A from 0, and T from 8. Leaving us with 42 something like _ _ S _ S??

 

I haven't felt excited like this since Christmas when I was little. Crossing your fingers, hoping that they got you what you wanted, and I mean either way it's a free gift so it's awesome, but, you just hope deep down that it isn't some boring racing game :)

 

PLEASE BE SUPER MARIO RPG PLEASE BE SUPER MARIO RPG PLEASE...


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more than likely gonna be announced this weekend

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Originally Posted by Stew
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Using the image numbers as sperate digits, and applying them to their corresponding css class names to get the letters, using 0 as the first letter in each word you can get 2 letters per day.


Tundra - 04: T, R
Glacier - 15: L, E
Icy - 23: Y, I
Cold - 16: O, L


Knowing that there will be 4 more letters, you can create TYR_EL I_ LO__


With the The Valenzetti Equation from Lost being 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 which so far fits the numbers we have, the final result can probably be guessed to be


TYRAEL IS LOST


So then, 08 will be Artic, giving us, A from 0, and T from 8. Leaving us with 42 something like _ _ S _ S??



In regards to your post Oh Snap, wouldn't it be interesting if the meaning to "Tyrael is lost" was that he is now the new main Villian in the game, him becoming corrupted and fallen like the big 3?
Lol just a wild thought....

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A littlre refresher..

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/1037/diablowe0.gifhttp://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1597/baaloptqm6.gifhttp://img262.imageshack.us/img262/2163/mephistoky7.gif

I wouldn't mind learning more about the lesser evils in d3.

Tyrael was cool.
One of his ex-buddies..
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