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Blizzard Entertainment will be at the GC Games Convention in Leipzig. You will find Blizzard at Hall 2 booth E12. The GC Games Convention will happen through August 23-26. View the booth map and look at the bottom-right for an "X". That's Blizzard's booth. There is no official word of what Blizzard is showing there or if there will be any announcements. We will have to wait to find out.


The Drumroll.....

Millions of fans awaited eagerly the announcement of the next Diablo game at Blizzcon. We only got greeted with the announcement of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and a Starcraft II hands-on. Hopefully it is not over yet. After Blizzcon, I commented there were three gaming events remaining on 2007. Unconventionally, there is a GenCon UK on September 2. And of course, October 31 - Halloween. If no announcements are made in those, then we should start to despair. We don't have to wait months to find out. The three events start this week and the next within August: GenCon Indy (August 16-19), GCDC (August 20-22) and GC Games Convention (August 23-26). The last two at Leipzig, Germany.


Paul Sams
Blizzard VP
Business Operations
Now, how important is GC Games Convention at Leipzig? Like I commented post-Blizzcon, GC Leipzig was the place where Paul Sams (Blizzard VP of Business Operations) officially slipped on August 28, 2006 that there were three unannounced titles. Read the 2006 interview over at IGN. Two of them have been revealed already. One is missing.

Paul Sams: "StarCraft is my absolutely favorite game of all time," Sams told us. "As you probably already know, there is no doubt that we will continue the StarCraft and Diablo franchise, and trust me, I will be the happiest person in the world when we announce StarCraft 2."

While Sams wasn't ready to spill the beans just yet, he did say Blizzard "will have a major product announcement in 2007," and that Blizzard was currently working on at least three other unannounced titles at the moment." -- IGN, 8-28-06

Starcraft II was announced at Blizzard Worldwide Invitationals (Seoul, South Korea).

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King was announced at Blizzcon 2007 (Anaheim, CA)

Third Major Announcement (Missing)

Will any of these game conventions be the platform for the next Blizzard major announcement? Hold your breath through what remains of 2007. And cross your fingers. Hopefully, GC Games Convention ends full circle.

One last thing, before Blizzcon, I showed photos of Blizzard employees and freelancers at the article Faces of Blizzcon. Sometimes I throw around hints, heads ups, and hidden easter eggs of what I hear around. Those who went to Blizzcon may have noticed Michael Gough didn't appear. I tagged him as Tassadar (voice actor) in the article hoping some would catch who he was, and on purpose not saying the other role he was known for. However, the Diablo announcement wasn't made at Blizzcon. What few may remember is that Michael Gough was ... voice actor of Deckard Cain. I heard a few days before Blizzcon, that Gough's appearance was cancelled. No further details.

The exhibition halls are opened as followed:
Thu, 23.08.2007 | 09.00 a.m. - 06.00 p.m.
Fri, 24.08.2007 | 09.00 a.m. - 08.00 p.m.
Sat, 25.08.2007 | 09.00 a.m. - 08.00 p.m.
Sun, 26.08.2007 | 09.00 a.m. - 06.00 p.m.

Marine 382BB wrote: How did they fuck up Diablo 2, I under stand the whole WoW, I dont get how they fucked Diablo 2. It kept with the story.

Hellgate: London is a computer game under development by Flagship Studios. The design of the game is similar in a number of ways to the Diablo series. This is due to influence of Flagship Studios co-founders including a number of ex-Blizzard North employees, including Diablo series creators Erich Schaefer and former President David Brevik. The other founders are Erich's brother Max Schaefer, former Blizzard North Vice President Bill Roper, and Diablo II producer Kenneth Williams.

chris wrote: the makers of diablo 3 were not blissard

the true makers were a company that was bought by blissard during its development of diablo1
blizzard renamed this company blissard north.

blizzard north dissinegrated after diablo 2 was made which is why we have yet to see a diablo 3.
Hallgate london is made by the former memebers of blizzard north.
Hellgate london is the only sequel you will see.

I am 98*% sure that blizzard will not make a diablo 3.
If you like diablo, and want a new story, you're just gonna have to live with hellgate london.