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Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:46 am
by Lavarinth
ONE MORE DAY, FOLKS

http://www.blizzard.com and http://www.battle.net lead you to the same icy cavern image. Perhaps.. Hell frozen over?

Dun, dun.. Duuuun...

[imgwh 580x350]http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/ice5.jpg[/imgwh]
(Image on Blizzard's splash as of June 27th, 2008)

UPDATE: I forgot to quote one vital thing from the July 2008 edition of PC Gamer in relations to what they would be releasing in the next month's issue: Next Month.. Have you ever had a secret that you're just dying to blurt out, but you can't for another month, and the stress of holding it in makes you want to do the pee-pee dance? That's what the PC Gamer staff is doing right now, because the August issue will be a chock-full of exclusives, including a top-secret cover story so huge we had to go [CENSORED] to get it. Just 30 more days now....

I'd also like to point out in a recent conference by Blizzard, only certain news reporting sites and magazines were invited, PC Gamer being one of them. Likely, the word "CENSORED" is "Hell."

UPDATE: Will be updating daily with newest image released by Blizzard.

UPDATE: Visit http://www.diablofans.com for more details towards the speculation that this is Diablo 3 related.

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:40 am
by IskatuMesk
[00:55] Ascherzon: this image can be taken two ways
[00:56] Ascherzon: the diablo worldstone, which seems unlikely because that was red, or wotlk beta
[00:56] Lavarinth: Or.
[00:57] Lavarinth: Hell frozen over.
[00:57] Ascherzon: they announce an N64 version of lost vikings?
[00:58] Lavarinth: Hahaha

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:01 am
by Maglok
My first thought was hell frozen over. 8)

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:06 am
by WB
anyone notice the circular inscription thingy on the left half of the pic?

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:59 am
by Maglok
Aye, people are comparing it to gawd knows what. Death knight symbols, a face, etc. :P

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:11 am
by IskatuMesk
Yeah, I noticed it. Figured it was just a little doodle, no way to really point it to anything.

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:12 am
by Jadefang
That can only be 1 of 2 things:

a) A protoss fart
b) The announcement of the SC2 release date

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:15 am
by Maglok
My theory is that more of the runes are added every day.

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:17 am
by IskatuMesk
Maglok wrote: My theory is that more of the runes are added every day.
That's actually a good theory. Let's keep an eye on it.

I highly doubt it's the sc2 release date. Blizzard wouldn't give a release date in an alpha. At least, I'd hope not; they'd never meet it. :P

I gave the idea of Hell freezing over some thought and the prospect of Ghost making a comeback did cross my mind, though. But still.. that doesn't seem to be so much as "Hell freezing over" as something related to sc2 or diablo, though.

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:46 am
by Meta
As much as I like Diablo 1 and 2, I'm not very interested in seeing Diablo 3. I'd rather see a new series of games, but... well, we all shall know it by the weekend. :P

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:46 am
by Marco
I think its a sign that they are cold.  And they want us to send heaters.

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:48 am
by Maglok
While it may indeed be a name game it would be a bit odd. See if you have three strong franchises, why would you invest in creating a 4th new one, especially since it takes a lot more money to create a new franchise then go with an exsisting one. Creating name familiarity and all.

Then againt this is Blizzard. Oh and they have stuff like The Lost Vikings.

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:51 am
by IskatuMesk
Meta wrote: As much as I like Diablo 1 and 2, I'm not very interested in seeing Diablo 3. I'd rather see a new series of games, but... well, we all shall know it by the weekend. :P
Well, seeing as virtually all of Diablo's staff is gone I'd rather see that franchise laid to rest for good. Diablo as a cartoon would... not fit. Even less than Starcraft as a cartoon, which doesn't fit at all.

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:05 am
by Aekenon
Extremely belated Wrath of the Lich King announcement.

!!

Re: Blizzard Upcoming Announcement?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:40 am
by Revan
Or maybe the 3. wow expansion.