Diablo 3?

Blizzards new splash screen
http://www.blizzard.com/us/splash.html

http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/883/883949p1.html

Has a diablo rune on it, I hope it is diablo 3 might just make me install an actual game on my comp :0. Please don't let it be some WoW bs :(.

Sorry to say, but that looks like "The Frozen Throne" since Diablo 3 is rumored* to be in Heaven between Hell... I wish it was D3 aswell :(

their featured job advert yesterday was for a level designer specialising in outdoor levels - and they referred to themselves as 'blizzard, creator of diablo 1 & 2'. not 'creator of WoW'

I never saw that part, but I guess since their WotLK Expansions coming out next year, their gonna start on their new project... Omg come on D3!

The second link in the first post, and the first post itself refer to 1 rune. My eyes are pretty bad, but I count 3. No?

I'd love to be surprised by Blizzard and hear the news that Diablo 3 will release in the coming months on this year. I know if anything, that even if they kept the whole thing underground for this long (and it was rumored early as... say 1/4 of last year. Someone correct me), the release date won't be till earliest mid next year; but more likely longer.

they've already told everyone years ago they were going to make a diablo 3, there were rumours, and they were answered by an ex-blizzard employee who claimed that it was true.

i definately remember reading about it at least 2 years ago.

It is know that blizzard has a secret project called Hydra, that they have been working on for a year or two.

And look how long, and how well they kept starcraft 2 under wraps :P

daiblo 3 might use the same engine as starcraft, so all of that will be already done :P

i seriously hope diablo 3 isnt an mmo, i will cry.

Hrmmm

Seems the splash screens 3rd update is the protoss symbol from Starcraft....

so we have a rune from Frostmourne (a big ass sword from Warcraft) A Hel rune from d2, and the protoss symbol from Starcraft.

New IP perhaps?

or, ultimate crossover game? World of Diablo craft in space!

finally, a home for the draenai

hate to admit it but whatever is beyond the crack in the ice looks like space to me :P

probably just new UI for their website to gear up for the big marketing push for starcraft2 - they'd be silly to start going on about Diablo3 before SC2 is released - doesnt mean D3 ISNT in production as we speak, but I doubt the site will reflect that for some time.

http://www.planetdiablo.com/features/articles/d3-04012008/

i didnt say it hadnt been announced (that was already mentioned earlier in this thread), just that i doubt they'll make a big song and dance about it on their site prior to SC2 launch

that was an april fools post.

Meh I hope they use a new engine and not the war 3 one, Diablo looked great for its time, would really benefit from having a highly detailed atmosphere.

Apparently there are images that can been seen from getting links out of the source, First there was 2 now there's 3 out of 4, and when put together they form this(from kotaku). Hydra maybe?

[media]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/june/splashscreen4.jpg[/media]

The new splash screen, I say it's Ironman!

Quote from paladin;348150:
that was an april fools post.

so it was, but i do still remember a blizzard ex employee spilling the beans unofficially :P

oh and it does look like something starcraft related, on the 4th day it has a 4th rune and it does look more and more like space.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53312

the same deal as starcraft 2 last year. attention whores :P

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Other evidence pointing towards a Diablo III announcement includes the Diablo3.com domain, now empty after previously directing to a Diablo community website. The domain was acquired by Blizzard last month.

Coverage of the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational starts at 7:15pm tonight, can watch it online. Our questions will be answered then :P

http://kotaku.com/5020458/is-this-image-proof-of-diablo-iii-nah

The Five Runes form a Pentagram

a pretty poxy one, but still thats pretty cool :p

Big whoop so what? Wanna fight aboouud it?

12:18 -- Footage of large scale battles, comets streaking across the sky, demons, Diablo 3 officially announced.

Seems it retains the same look (why mess when it aint broke?)
New Witch Doctor class can summon pets, control minds of his enemies, and cast diseases

Offical site open http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/

Yep, Diablo 3, just goto
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/splash.html

Double posting just so I can say... **** YES. YES YES YES **** YES **** **** **** YES

spoont

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbUSsblCSQ[/media]

trailer :)

i think something just happend in my pants

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SMnWr9MqwQ[/media]

Omfg yes.

Hmm doesn't look like its pushing anything graphics wise (characters and npc's look really blocky) Also looks like its got a slight cartoon look that the others didn't have :(, still looks fun though.

[media]http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/_images/screenshots/ss29-hires.jpg[/media]
[media]http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/_images/screenshots/ss25-hires.jpg[/media]
[media]http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/_images/screenshots/ss12-hires.jpg[/media]

yeah it wont look like that when it comes out i can gaurentee that :P

this is blizzard, they still have OCD when it comes to their games.

Whats OCD? Just watched the gameplay vid on their site looks like its going to be a lot of fun (the in game cinematic looked shit though compared to what games do these days).

Damn blizzard, *re-installs Diablo II*

oh and...... **** YEAH!

offcial website

http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/?rhtml=y

I've changed my pants 3 times today, first for work, 2nd for Diablo 3, 3rd for the Gameplay movie on their website.

i know, ****ing holy mother of hell im going to need long service leave when this game comes out :D

First things first.
WHAT RESOLUTION. :D

Finally.. been far too long!

whooo im excited.. going to take leave for this game... so far it looks like they havent let down there fans.. its not a mmo its got the classic moves (OMFG Whirlwind) and a new caractor that sounds a lot like a necromancer. either way they still say this game is over 6 months away.. i cant wait :D

how about you take some leave, eat a dictionary, learn the difference between 'their' and 'there' and "they're", and learn to ****en spell at the same time.

hahaha settle down there pala.. back on topic please ;)

Heh, awesome news.

The D3 website is also getting farkin' smashed, heh.

awesome :D

http://games.internode.on.net/filelist.php?app=4089&menu=14

3 videos on 'node

Gameplay (which looks good)
Cinematic trailer
and Artwork Trailer

The combat and gameplay looks great in game

Will be interesting to see how the online goes in it. Pay to play, oh god I hope not :(. I'll subscribe to something like WoW, well i would if i didn't think it ruined lives, but i don't think we should pay to have the online play bug proof and hack proof, cos we never have before.

it'll be the same as diablo 2. Battle.net.

yeah, they've mentioned an enhanced battle.net for starcraft2 as well - makes sense to use it for D3 too :)

Diablo 3 better have good music to it like all the other Diablos, I swear to god. But then again, Blizzard delivers when it comes to good music in games :D

have you even watched the trailers man?? steeped in good music, literally steeped!

i cant handle all the steeping.

Quote from HeReTiC;348384:
it'll be the same as diablo 2. Battle.net.

I heard of some battle net 2.0 thats releasing with SC2?

zZzz... sorry, but I don't get any kicks out of pointing and clicking thousands of AI creatures for hours on end. Looks as pointless and monotonous as Diablo 2.

but you do silly dances with beanies.... so.. yeah rec: 0, Diablo 3: 1 =)

Diablo is much more than a point click. I expect nothing but great things from Blizzard and from the trailers and game footage I would say they made another hit.

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Slashdot | Blizzard Answers Your Questions, From Blizzcon
Slashdot: Can you tell us about the multiplayer aspect of the game, in terms of Battle.net and the possibility of LAN play?

Blizzard: We're not supporting LAN play. We're basically focusing on making the best multiplayer experience we can, and that's all through Battle.net. There are tons of features we're going to be supporting both for cooperative play and competitive play. One of the things we can talk about with the new Battle.net is security. Fixing some of the problems we had with the earlier Diablos ? item duping, cheating, and griefing ? we're going to be addressing all of those things with the new Battle.net, as well as some pretty awesome competitive play ideas we're working with right now. So that's going to be the biggest advance, especially for previous Diablo players, to see all these we're planning. It going to be really awesome.

sucks as d1 and d2 especially were great small lan games.
o well, im still keen as to play

Just share net access for small lans and hopefully it will work.

****ing ****s. first microsoft screwing LANs over now blizzard (mind you they started with WoW).

Seriously, is internet connectivity really an issue in this day and age? I just cant see a bunch of people dragging computers together for a LAN but having no access to the internet.

Maybe at bigger LAN parties but even then it wouldn't be overly hard to secure some sort of connection with enough bandwidth for online play.

Or just make a custom server and make like Private WoW servers.

The point is that you have to be connected to the battlenet server. It stops you from using hacks / bugs / older versions / increased experiance and the likes. It is sounding much more like a pay once wow for 8 players....

**** that does suck though...we will be able to play over lan with some ****ing around, but the fact that they cant just include it with the game is ****ing sad. for us we will be playing with 300-400 pings and it will be shit if it lags when we could have just played lan and had fun with no ping :P

It will be fun to see where pvpgn goes with bnet 2 coming with starcraft 2 and D3. Someone will do something but in reality it wont be available on day 1.

what heretic said. also - yes internet connections ARE still an issue. ESPECIALLY when you're beholden to a single company's servers for your play with friends - maintenance is not a downtime you have to worry about on LANs generally.

I expect they'll setup battlenet servers in australia, so probably maint times will be adjusted to match, BUT there will still be times you want to play during that period. ****ing annoying. there is zero reason NOT to allow LAN play. I've got no problem with battlenet for online play, but if my friends are using hacks etc in LAN play - either we've agreed to it or we'll sort the ****er out ourselves.

i highly doubt battle.net traffic will ALL be routed through the server. i suspect you'll retrieve initial character information from the server, but all actual game play will be peer to peer between the playing clients.

*shrug* still a tarded requirement if you want to pay a LAN game.

saying that you have to have an internet connection to play an offline game is tantamount to backing Games For Windows Live. (yeah yeah i know, Bnet will NEVER be that bad)

yes, it's crap, but i'm saying it shouldn't negatively effect latency.

unless they pull some BS like Left4Dead, where you create a game but it forces you onto a server of the game's choosing :/

i'd be more likely to play the game over the internet than on a lan anyway :)

yeah that is how battle.net works, peer to peer, which is why you could get d/c'd from Battle.net but not the game. but nevertheless, they're still dicks for not doing it :P

Diablo 3 features PvP battle arenas | Joystiq

Diablo 3 Trailers and Screens from Blizzcon 2010 - AusGamers.com

News: Diablo 3 beta confirmed - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

Diablo 3 PvP Arena Battles Blizzcon 2010 (wizard Gameplay)

[Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c2r3ZNNmO8]

gonna play this forrrr suoooorrreee :D