There’s been rumour, speculation, hype, and mystery, but it’s finanlly official… Blizzard announced today at their Worldwide Invitationtal in Paris that they are working on Diablo 3.
The speculation that this was going to be a ‘World of Diablo’ MMO was off though. Diablo 3 is sticking to it’s RPG roots, and seems to be a very updated, polished continuation of the Diablo RPG franchise, in the same way Starcraft 2 is an update of Starcraft. To me this makes a lot of sense. Why risk splitting the WoW playerbase with …

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Okay okay… I promised myself i wouldn’t post any April 1st gags, but Blizzard do it so well, and this was just laugh out loud funny. Full site at worldofwarcraft.com/moltencore/ even with a trailer!
They’re also showcasing their new Bard Hero Class, which given the recent merger with Activision, is just genius!

I may have left Azeroth behind me, however, Blizzard is running an awesome new ad campaign for WoW which i just had to post.
Its Warcraft Fool!

And Shatner FTW!

As Blizzard say themselves… “Hell, It’s About Time!”
Rumours have been flying about that Blizzard were going to make a big announcement for some time, and it’s finally arrived. Some predicted a Starcraft MMO, but i never really saw that happening (least not yet anyway). Why split the WoW player base when WoW is still riding high. The obvious next choice, Starcraft 2. Give some of the highly talented Blizzard RTS guys that have been sat around twiddling their thumbs since Warcraft 3 something to get their teeth into! Although here …

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