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Teaser page Update #7: Still Day 5

News | June 27, 2008 (2 months, 1 week ago) | by Indelible | Filed in Blizzard Entertainment

We're one day away from the WWIs and exactly 24 hours away from the start of the opening ceremony for arguably one of PC gamings most well known events. With that said, Blizzard ever cryptic teaser has once again been update, bringing yet more for us to think over.

Today, we are blessed with glowing eyes that seem to be steaming, much like that of the Lich Kings. As well as this, a fifth rune has appeared on the ice, which has opened up even more.

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The rune that has appeared today has been likened to a Viking Compass and it seems to fit the bill. Despite this, others seem to think it may have links to StarCraft and Diablo. Despite some linking the teaser eyes to the eyes of Arthas - The Lick King - DiabloFans.com has once again been quick to point out that a counter argument can easily be presented. Take a look at this image:

Not Arthas?

Another interesting development is the hidden images in the CSS that many now believe to be a red herring. Blizzard today added not one, but two images to the puzzle and the picture seems to be complete revealing that the image wasn't a freezing purple Diablo after all and is in fact a very menacing Penguin... thing or... a harbinger. The last two images were labeled harbinger and evil penguin and evilpenguin. Some are claiming that the words are all representative of what is to come and this could be linked to WotLK.

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The most interesting development however (for me) is the names of the hidden CSS images. Each image that fits in with the picture was given a number for a name, as well as their CSS labels. DiabloFans.com is once again on the ball to reveal a very interesting development:

Tundra: 04
Harbinger: 08
Cavern: 15
Cold: 16
Icy: 23
EvilPenguin: 42
[D, H, O, P, W, ?]

That leaves us with 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.

Look familiar? They are the LOST numbers. (From the award winning TV series of the same name).
You can only wonder why Blizzard chose these numbers.

One thing is for sure. In 24 hours time, the WWIs will start. In 28 hours time, we should know what the new game Blizzard Entertainment is teasing us about will be. At that point, a large amount of people could be massively excited or let down again.

Now all we have to do is wait out the last 24 hours...

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2 months, 1 week ago

Garr! they just updated the splash page. They taunt us with their silly smiley winkey face!!!!

/wrist

o well - wait a few more hours then eh?

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2 months, 1 week ago

ah, okay, my bad then. sorry of i ruined youre fun :/

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2 months, 1 week ago

No worrys m8 lol

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2 months, 1 week ago

Im not saying that those have ANYTHING to do with it being Diablo, I'm just trying to show how the splash could turn out being tommorow if the game is Diablo. I probably should of said that in the earlier comment ;D.

I hereby state that my guess that the game will be Diablo 3 has NOTHING to do with the altering of the splashes that i did. I just wanted to have a little fun and show some possibilities of tommorows splash if the game is announced to be Diablo 3. Sorry revan299s for the confusion xD.

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2 months, 1 week ago

you can change the colors all you want, but thats not meant to be viewed that way, dont get me wrong i think and hope its diablo 3 as well. but deciding its d3 by changing the colors, thats a bit much.

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2 months, 1 week ago

copy and paste the URLS, they got messed up (some how...).

http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h142/hollowstaff/?action=view&current=INVESTIGATION3.jpg
I used edge detect on day 5s splash. HOLY SHIT. IT LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE DIABLO I WANT TO SCREAM.
http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h142/hollowstaff/?action=view&current=INVESTIGATION.png
Inverted day5splash. Looks like Diablo-ish eyes to me.

http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h142/hollowstaff/?action=view&current=INVESTIGATION2.jpg

Put color settings as follows: BLUE:0 GREEN:0 RED:Default
Looks creepy and HELL-Y.

I SAY DIABLO III

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2 months, 1 week ago

That has been mentioned several times before.

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2 months, 1 week ago

Hmm.. the numbers correspond to the show LOST...

Anyone remember The Lost Vikings?

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2 months, 1 week ago

Just thought you guys oughta see this
http://forums.diabloii.net/showpost.php?p=6568655&postcount=301
I have no idea if its real or not, all i can say is wow.

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2 months, 1 week ago

We have a winner!!!

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2 months, 1 week ago

May very well be a fake, but damn, that's a pretty convincing fake.

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2 months, 1 week ago

if it was a game that had already been announced, there would be no need to keep a lid on it.

"So you want me to announce the game before our announcement?"

he said, 'announce the game'

both SC2 and WotLK, have already been announced for some time.

regardless if it has to do with the image or not, they will be announcing a NEW game.

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2 months, 1 week ago

It's the new World of Diablo StarWarcraft MMO!

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But really... Evil penguin race for Starcraft? I fail to see the genius in that.
*waddlewaddleLAZORPEW!* eh?

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2 months, 1 week ago

I've read everyone's theories and examined the pictures myself. Unfortunately the answer could be any of the three titles. But which one would make you happiest? In my honest opinion, a new Diablo title would make me very happy. Why? Well I already know I'm getting SC2, and WotLK, there is not denying those releases. So why not hope for number three from Blizzard?

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2 months, 1 week ago

What part of one of the reps saying it had nothing to do with WOTLK or Starcraft aren't you guys understanding? LOL

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2 months, 1 week ago

Don't get me started on how I don't see how people are getting that there's going to be a brand new game announcement from that quote. Here it is:

""So you want me to announce the game before our announcement?" he said. "No offense, but I think there's like 300 people here, and I'll be ripped apart by 8000 people there [at the Invitational] if I pre-announce it - but it's going to be really exciting. I think everybody here will be really excited about the announcement." "

It says game. not New game or new game franchise... And then you've just twisted it into not WotLK or Starcraft but then not including Diablo, so I'm thoroughly confused by your comment

I'm also mostly playing Devil's Advocate here. Blizzard has purposely put links to every game in the image so that we will sit here and argue about how it's this and not that but then oh it's that and not this. They don't want us to guess what it will be. At this point, no matter what the announcement is, someone will say "told ya so." It's either something to do with WotLK, Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft RTS, Lost Vikings, or something completely new. So if your *complete* guess is correct, enjoy your "I told you so" moment while I giggle that people actually think they can predict what Blizzard is doing.

;)

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2 months, 1 week ago

The runes in the ice are the symbols of the various Protoss tribes; you can see them in the Starcraft instruction book. Just in case no one else noticed...

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2 months, 1 week ago

Yeah, I know. But I was just testing things. And that was the one
thing that fit best into the Teaser. I mean, the fog and everything
fits perfectly around the shape of the head. And the eyes are in
the same exact place.

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2 months, 1 week ago

>.> okay YES, they have announced WotLK already... but they have NOT released the release date, new spells, or talent trees. Something I know they did before BC was released and was pretty darn exciting. I know it's all out from Alpha leaks but that's very different from Blizzard themselves releasing the new things. Plus of course, Blizzard is trying desperately to close down sites with the information.

I can't help but be amused at the comparison by Diablofans though. Yes, the actual triangle-type thing between the eyes is reversed... but are they ignoring the lines above the eyes? The only difference with that among the images is that in the actual Lich King image, the line isn't broken up. But it still looks like the "eyebrows" of the helm.

But I do agree that going with the obvious thing would be like not knowing Blizzard. We're all in for a treat I say.

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2 months, 1 week ago

I think I might have stumbled onto something. I really hope that I'm
wrong. But i did some stuff in photoshop. Doing overlays. And the
only thing that actually fit was a Protos from Starcraft. I really hope
that I'm wrong. But I don't think that I am. Just look at how well the
Protos face fits into the Picture.

Created and uploaded by me:

http://i32.tinypic.com/24mcg1v.gif

But yeah, It's probably something to do with Starcraft. :[

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