Blizzard Teasing Diablo 3 Splash Art?

[Prometheus]

It's blue, it's crystalline, it looks like someone cracked the inside of a geode with a fluorescent lamp. Am I seeing things? Is that a face peeking out of the left side of the drawing with an inward spiral bored into the forehead? Faint reddish quasi-runic lines just below the ice-like veneer?

The source code for the page refers to the picture as "icefield," suggesting Blizzard may be planning to "melt" away sections of the splash over coming days.

See the full-sized picture for yourself. It's what you hit when you type www.blizzard.com into a browser, and it's up mere days before the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational, where StarCraft 2 was announced last year. This year, the rumor mill's been hard at the business of proclaiming the imminent arrival of Diablo 3.

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Hell Monkeys!

 

[13lade619]

wc4?

http://www.worldofwar.net/n/414868/blizzard-image-solved

 

[monoVertex]

No. Read the comments on that link Blade posted.

Today (monday) there are 2 runes visible (yeah, one was added) and they are the shael (first one) and hel (second one) runes from Diablo II. There is even more proof.

Also, check this out:

Looks like it's starting to melt .

 

[13lade619]

No. Read the comments on that link Blade posted.

no to who? wc4 or D3? ...just curious... i'm not really that interested...

and i just noticed now that there's a difference in the current pic and on kc's post.

maybe we should keep an archive...

 

[Pineapple]

No. Read the comments on that link Blade posted.

Today (monday) there are 2 runes visible (yeah, one was added) and they are the shael (first one) and hel (second one) runes from Diablo II. There is even more proof.

I have never felt this excited. I can't wait for them to say its Diablo.

I tihkn in Diablo 3, Hell will have actually froze over. :thup:

 

[NoxMortus]

I personally think that it's alot more similar to the rune on Frostmourne than the diablo rune

If you look closely they arent very alike.

 

[Pineapple]

I personally think that it's alot more similar to the rune on Frostmourne than the diablo rune

If you look closely they arent very alike.

true, but there is no denying that the second one is the hel rune.

 

[Demi666]

Wraith of the lich king

-_-

 

[Uberplayer]

> Wraith of the lich king
Yeap.

They just might have used their texture resources for that image, so that's why there are Diablo-rune-like images.

 

[Pineapple]

why would they make all this hype for something that they already announced? What, it will melt away to show arthas? No, no, I don't think that will be it.

Notice:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/

It has already been anounched, they already gave the details for it.

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and Blizzard recentrly aquired the diablo3 domain. Hum...

 

[Polak]

There is no need to make a teaser for an expansion and a game that was already announced before hand.

 

[Uberplayer]

That might be true. I take my words back. Let's see, let's see..

 

[monoVertex]

No to Wc4 or anything else except Diablo III. Also, look carefully, there are some red lines around that crack .

And there various things that point to diablo... Let's hope Blizzard wouldn't crush the hearts of all diablo lovers announcing something else .

And yeah, I don't think it will be WotLK because they already announced that. Why make something so complicated like pictures chaning every day and stuff like this for something everyone knows about alreay?

Because it's ice, it doesn't necesarilly means it's linked to the Lich King .

EDIT: And yes, Pineapple is right. www.diablo3.com no longer redirects to the page with the petition for the diablo III or whatever was that (can't remember the correct link), but it just shows a page cannot be displayed .

 

[Pineapple]

Oh god, I wonder how the new diablo is going to look.

 

[Polak]

Theres a lot of proof showing that the ice will crack, compare yesterdays splash picture with todays:

http://www.thehelper.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=23627&d=1214286179

http://www.blizzplanet.com/content/diablo3/wwi-2008-teaser/day2-ice2.jpg

 

[monoVertex]

Someone speculated that 5 runes will appear ( one each day, so there come 5 days ) and they will form a pentagram, with the crack in the middle. Guess who's comming outta there .

 

[Pineapple]

Someone speculated that 5 runes will appear ( one each day, so there come 5 days ) and they will form a pentagram, with the crack in the middle. Guess who's comming outta there .

Jesus?

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That would be so awesome! Though what will the other 3 runes be? :\

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[w/e]

Dammit, I want Warcraft 4, but the evidence is undeniable. This is going to be Diablo 3.

 

[monoVertex]

I was thinking... diablo fans (me, Pineapple, etc ), at about 40 years or so... "OMG OMG DIABLO IX COMING SOON" .

 

[Pineapple]

I was thinking... diablo fans (me, Pineapple, etc ), at about 40 years or so... "OMG OMG DIABLO IX COMING SOON" .

Mark my words.

I will be doing that.