As expected, Saturday at the 2008 WorldWide Invitational (WWI), Blizzard announced a sequel to another of its huge franchises: Diablo III. Blizzard had been teasing Diablo 3 gamers with screenshots at its website.

Kotaku reports that "The demon that is Diablo III. In a fight to the finish, Tenacious D will send the devil back to hell by playing their guitars with a piece of Diablo's tooth."

Earlier we reported that Diablo 3 may be released today on Saturday. Here is our earlier report.

In May Blizzard acquired the domain name Diablo3.com, which sparked speculation about a possible upcoming Diablo III release. In my mind this would be bigger than Starcraft 2, mostly because I love Diablo more than Starcraft (heresy, I know).

With Blizzard's 2008 WorldWide Invitational (WWI) to be held this week, and with Blizzard teasing splash screens on their website (unless you've been asleep - or don't care - you know about them; click the above to enlarge) rampant speculation has arisen again. Blizzard generally teases splash screens when they have a new game announcement, so ...

DiabloII.net has been tracking all the "clues" at the Blizzard site, including the splash screens and more. And on Wednesday they said they had some inside info about the game:

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.

Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean we will be meeting Baal again anytime soon. Based on how long Starcraft 2 has been in development since it was announced. And in fact, based on the retailers who have posted dates for Starcraft 2, it might be the release date of that game that's being teased at Blizzard's site.

Or maybe we'll get lucky and it will be both. We'll find out Saturday.

Source: Written by Tech Ex http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com

This post was edited by husee on Jul 28 2008 01:47am

While no official release date has been announced yet for Diablo 3, there has been much speculation to a potential “ball park” figure on the launch date for the much anticipated title. Needless to say, it’s going to be a big year with as many releases as blizzard has planned for the near future.

A recent leak from Blizzard’s parent company, Vivendi revealed that the newest World of Warcraft expansion is due sometime in the fall of 2008. In addition, Starcraft II is also due out around Christmas.

So what does this tell us? Well, if anything it reveals a pattern of release timing. After the first announcement of each of these respective games their release dates were scheduled between 8 and 12 months later. I believe this same scenario should hold true for Diabo III.

This would put the game’s release date between March and July of 2009. A release date during this time fame allows Blizzard’s other title releases to soak up all the economic benefit to further bolster the companies revenues for the 2008 fiscal year. With no current releases or expansions scheduled for the 2009 year, it would be a pretty bleak stock outlook for the company to not release a game before Q2, or at the very latest Q3 of 2009.

Of course, all of this is just purely speculation, but with any luck we’ll here of a leaked release date in the coming weeks and months as the rapid development of this much anticipated title continues.


This information from : http://d3.zuggaming.com/2008/07/01/diablo-3-release-date/

This post was edited by husee on Jul 28 2008 01:51am

Shoot yourself...


you will NOT be missed

This isn't new info, diablo will release on its anniversary.
always has

This post was edited by Royals666 on Jul 28 2008 01:52am

Dude you're an idiot.

I read the first line:

As expected, Saturday at the 2008 WorldWide Invitational (WWI), Blizzard announced a sequel to another of its huge franchises: Diablo III

As expected? PFT.

lol?

t4w

I hope the game gets out as soon as it's ready !