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Teaser page Update #3: Still Day 3

News | June 25, 2008 (1 month, 3 weeks ago) | by Indelible | Filed in Blizzard Entertainment

As everyone will be aware, Zyuu has already revealed that Blizzard have posted a new splash update for the teaser they are running on their various different game sites.

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The latest entry into the teaser project finally breaks the ice revealing a starry sky through the crack. As well as that, the newest rune that has been added to the splash image has already been likened to the StarCraft franchise, being revealed as the Protoss logo. So far, we have had the following three runes:

Day 1 - Frostmourne Rune - World of Warcraft
Day 2 - Nef Rune - Diablo
Day 3 - Protoss symbol - StarCraft

Many are speculating that a fourth and fifth rune will be added tomorrow and on Friday, leading to the announcement at The WWIs during the opening ceremony on Saturday. If all goes as I assume, we may see the next symbol representing the Warcraft RTS franchise, as Blizzard have counted World of Warcraft and Warcraft as separate entities before. That however is mere speculation. The below image better details the puzzle!

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The next addition to the teaser project was the third addition to the artwork that has been hidden away in the CSS. Many are claiming that it will be revealed to be a cartoon Diablo, wearing a purple warmer, hunched over a camp fire and I do remember seeing something along those lines. As was speculated, the new image is the top right corner of the image. You can see the new image fixed in place in the above picture.

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The guys over at DiabloFans.com has once again been busy at work and have revealed a rather interesting bit of information.

The mystery image today was titled 23.jpg -- in the alphabet that corresponds to the letter "W". Now we were trailed off completely. The previous sequences were interpreted as a D, an I and an O from Diablo. A letter W wouldn't make sense with only three days left. Unless it meant World of Diablo Online, but two letter or three remain to be released probably. Could the numbers instead refer to Diablo runes?

As well as this, MD is reporting about some action with another Blizzard title that may have something to do with the WWIs.

A little birdie from inside -- and I know the source somewhat -- told me today something about Blackthorne. Remember a few months ago when I reported Blackthorne trademark had been updated? Seems there might be two game announcements after all -- simple speculation.

Time for the debate! Do you guys think this latest development has ruled out a new Diablo title? Could the movement with the Blackthorne trademark be an indication of things to come? Or is this simply an advertisement for the WWIs?

Update: Many people are stating that the first rune has changed and that it now looks a lot less like the Forstmourne rune and a lot more like a Diablo rune. Perhaps this is another piece in the ever growing puzzle?

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Has anyone been to blizzard.com yet?its has another image

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

SinR, I have to agree with you. I honestly, after thinking it might be RotLC, think that it might be something alone those lines. A new game.

Also, I DO remember seeing something recently about signing up for a random raffle to beta test unreleased, unannounced games in the future... I cant remember that link though.. but it was on the WoW site.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

http://news.curse.com/details/11140/

sorry, no, they said it's for a NEW game...

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

It is for WOTLK, gosh...You have to be stupid not to see it, and they using rune marks, cause uhmmmm that is what the death knights going to be using in the game...And this page is only on the blizzard main site and the world of warcraft site and nothing else....You would think that if it is for Diablo 3 it would only be on the blizzard site only....And if you look at the art work from the WOTLK website the ice marks on there and the art work is the same.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

All this hype around one stupid "teaser" :) Grab some air and relax;>

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Personally, i think that if Blizz is going to announce Diablo III, it'll be at Blizzcon this year. as for these teasers, i think its for a New Blizzard game/franchise, not an existing one (Diablo/Warcraft/Starcraft/WoW)

Lost Vikings 3? anyone?

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

you know it occured to me, what if we are all right?

What if its pertaining to all the above. It would explain the teasers. What if it was Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

it could be any number of things, but what does ice have to do with diablo / starcraft? im thinking more along the linesof warcraft 4 or just more WOTLK announcements

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The 'penguin' image, actually looks alot like a penguin pet from world of warcraft that a friend showed me a pic of. Possible goody bag gift?

Also, on the Blizzard Invitational website on the sidebar it lists their various games:WoW, SC2, WC3, D2, and then a blizzard symbol (clearly used as a place holder until they make the announcement as of what this new game is)

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Well think about it, they haven't done anything press-wise with Starcraft 2 for a while now. Diablo has been untouched for god knows how long. And we also have WoTLK which has already had tons of information given to us and leaked. Now if it's for WoTLK, I'm thinking it's for Beta (since the game is currently in Alpha state and it's work is being progressed very quickly). Starcraft-wise, the obvious for the 2nd edition to the game and probably some type of Diablo product. However, I don't think it's going to be a Diablo MMO basically because they would be competing with themselves for money and fan-based.

Logically, does it make any sense to release another MMO when the one they have is still doing excellent? Especially with ANOTHER expansion coming closer and closer each day? Now all the hiring they did for "Next-Gen MMO" that's more along the lines of "better engine, better coding" in a versatile but unique way. It doesn't HAVE to mean it's a brand new MMO altogether. Consider it like this. NES to SNES. SNES is the next-gen product of NES. (Both are the same type, Nintendo...had about the same type of games, etc.) See my point?

Even with the merge ordeal with Activision, personally I don't see why they would have a new logo or have anything to do with advertising Activision. Activision flat out sucks imo.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

WWI is the E3 for Blizz. They'll unvail everything they're working on. WotLK date, Starcraft 2 date (maybe), and tease us with more to keep us hooked (D3?, WoD?) and the whole Activision Logo thing. When you throw your companys Biggest party and invite the world, you pull out all the stops. :D

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Its just a countdown to the new Blizzard Activision Logo unveiling, how funny

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

I think its a count down to lich king and a diablo anoucement. Maybe we are getting best of both worlds? As I stated before though I might be getting my hopes up for nothing lol.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

i bet its World of Diablocraft: Ghost

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

it could be a countdown to the WotLK expansion pack - the new Deathknight characters are meant to use runes to cast certain abilites, so maybe these are new graphics for it.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Have you thought the name of firm is blizzard = ice :D maybe its just as symbol of their company and all they done and now something new will break through? maybe to arise sumthing familiar maybe something completley new
I LOVE BLIZZARD for this things they make the best quality games ever.. all their games can be played for decades and still not be borning

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

It's a bit of a stretch to say that the ice is revealing a starry sky behind, to me it looks more like just ice particles as the ice crumbles. Tomorrow may give a better indication if they are stars or not as the middle space becomes clearer.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Maybe WoW, Starcraft 2 and Diablo are all hinted in it.
Why focus on one game?

I think Blizzard will make announcements on all of the hinted games.

The image is not specific enough to link it to one game.
It's in the eye of the beholder, to see what game you find in it.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

I don't like World of Diablo. I would hope that it would go more towards the original game, not just a WoW clone with new skins. That and I don't like the name, maybe "Underworld of Diablo"...

Maybe...

Fine.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

I actually disagree. It looks less like the Diablo rune now and more like something completely different. Hard to say, but it definitely doesn't look like either of the two runes provided as examples now.

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I almost want to say it looks kind of like a Hydralisk or something... but that's purely conjecture at this point.

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