Blizzard’s Worldwide Invitational 2008 starts in half an hour in Paris. If you can check the intro image – there’s a dark shape that is more and more visible.
UPDATE: Diablo 3 is OFFICIAL! Live news from the event:
12:15 — Announcement…..!! Guy playing Diablo music on an acoustic guitar…
12:18 — Footage of large scale battles, comets streaking across the sky, demons, Diablo 3 officially announced.
12:20 — Jay Wilson, lead designer on Diablo 3 coming out. He’s going to demo the game.
12:20 — It’s apparently still an action RPG. Same interface — red
health and blue orbs. Skill bar at bottom. 3/4 overhead perspective.
Character with 2 axes hacking at demons in what appears to be a foggy
cathedral. Has a jumping attack where he smashes the two axes into the
ground.
(Watch Diablo 3 trailer here)
12:21 — The axe guy is the barbarian class. Says improvements have
been made, like the hotbar for skills. Using the mouse wheel and tab
key you can quickly switch between skills. Whoing inventory. Appears to
still have slot limits. Using enchanted axes with frost and lighting
,which stuns and freezes opponents.
12:25 — Each piece of gear is custom designed for each class. Barbarian puts on demonic sort of garb with giant devil horns. Barbarian can hop across gaps on the map. Barbarian dislodged a rock wall and dropped it on zombies, killing them. Demoing moving whirlwind attack.
12:33 — Witch doctor can cast out locus swarm, which spreads between targets and deals damage. Can summon mongrel things that he can cast locust swarm on, which buffs their damage. Outdoor environment now. Quite pretty in that vibrant, slightly cartoonish Blizzard graphical style. Like with StarCraft 2 and it’s similarities to the original, Diablo 3 looks and sounds, at least at a glance, quite similar to previous games. Witch doctor also has a mass fear type of ability.
12:36 — Multiplayer will work over battle.net. Heads into a final fight against some gigantic moving trees. Final boss here, called siegebreaker assault beast, is absolutely gigantic, maybe around six or seven times taller than the player characters.
12:37 — Demo ends. The crowd roars…
Update: Diablo 3 release date has been tentatively set to follow the launch of Starcraft 2 and Battle.net 2.0 some time in early 2009.
Looks nice cant wait to play,good job !!!
diablo rocks!!!!!!
i cant wait until the game will be for sale!!!!!!!!!
D3 looks fantastic!!! I wish I could play it right now!
When is the release date does anyone have an idea?
I am convinced this game will be amazing and I can not wait for it to hit the stores. What about this Starcraft 2 idea I am hearing through the grapevine?
At last the much awaited diablo 3 has been announced, there should be a lot of very happy chappies out there. All the screenshots look fantastic and the demo leaves ones mouth watering. I just hope this time around the game will be longer than diablos 1 and 2, I mean i dont know how many times i actually clocked diablo 2 and got bored with starting a new game so just hope diablo 3 will have a longer story line. I cant wait……
Yeah Diablo 2 is pretty short, but also a really great game.
I hope it will come soon. They should release it soon, because the last Diablo game was in 2000 or 2001 (cant remember >.<) people are tired of waiting
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I really love the gameplay in Diablo 3. i was afraid of it will be more like World of Warcraft.. but nah , it looks like the old diablos ! Cheers !
At last!!!!!!!!!!!!
I,just as thousends of us, been waiting for Diablo 3 for so long !!!!
And now the time is come, after 8 years…….
I was saying to myself that i would pay twice a price of Diablo 3 just if Blizzards say that they’l make sequell…
THANKS!!!!!
Well well well, I can’t say anything less but I’m extremely thrilled, and excited about Diablo 3, been waiting a very very long time for this, and gonna in advance book a piece of this lovely thing.
Whenever there will be a demo to play, I’d love to play it, no matter the circumstances.
I played d1 and d2, both were GREAT!!!
I can’t wait for d3!!
I’m pretty sto’ked for the game to come out! Does anyone know the release date?
new game huh!?…
I’m so excited i wana play and ia wanna now sistem requrment beacause my pc is a little week and i don’t now if i can play. An answer please . let’s kill some monsters.
This looks great can wait to play
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To my mind the design outside should be quite the same like it is in the gameplaymovie, because it really looks great
BUT when it comes to dungeons (and bosses) it is a MUST that they stick to typical “diablo colours” because this is very important for the atmosphere
so you can still have a big variety of ambiences
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The graphics are suppose to be extremely adjustable, as in you can play with top notch graphics making the game play amazing or if your system cannot run the graphics to can adjust them to almost d2 status.
What is the release date?
Apparently they will not include PK in Diablo III…..
PK i believe must be included in the game. I mean players at some point will want to fight and kill one another, just for the fun of it…
To control this PK i think the players would first have to agree to a dual for a fight to take place, to keep it controlled and protect those who are not intersted in Duelling..
why only 2wo characters ?
looks a little bit like neverwinter nights… its sad that there are only 2 different classes….
when is the release? im exited >.< i want to play it!! diablo!!!
there arent only 2 classes they will announce more to come
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/faq/#1_6
this is a FAQ about the game there r some answers there including number of classes….read it
P.S- anyone knows how much room diablo 3 will take in the PC?
when is the beta coming out i syrsly cant wait for it hey.
and can any1 download it or is it just a chosen few
2 things… 1st. no one will play if it’s p2p. Blizzard knows that. Not to say that no one would pay to play a game online, but no one would pay to play Diablo online, best game ever though it is. Everyone smile, this one’ll be free to play online. 2nd. Thank you blizzard, the inventory is the most beautiful one i’ve ever seen, and I play A LOT of MMORPGs.
Omg i have been waiting for this game for such a long time,, and now its comming,,stil have to wait another year,, read somewere that release date is 09/30/2009,, buit looking forward for it,, im the biggest diablo fan ever,,NEED THIS GAME RIGHT NOW,, but seeya xD
Hopefully they can brainstorm some pretty crazy bosses just like diablo 2, i enjoyed the wild and imaginative fights and storylines, true they got a tad boring but you can only play a game so long…
yeh diablo 2 is wicked… finished hundreds of times.. and D3 looks even better
… now onto important things.. i heard a rumour that Kevin Rudd is announcing plans that his swimming pool is to be 8.5m X 15.6m with a depth of 80cm at shallowest, with a gentle slope down to approx 3m! is this true or just another dumb rumour?
cant wait for this game but can not wait a whole year for it it has to cum out b4 that D2 was good never placed d1 BUT GOT THE DISK AND BEST STILL BE ABLE TO USE A LOADER
loving it cant wait for realease date
LOL diablo 3 will be awesome much better than WOW coz WOW is for nubs who like eating their own flesh while commiting suicide because they dont get wat they want my god i hate WOW u messed up little ppl LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
WOW SUCKS SO MUCH MY GOSH I MEAN COME ON WTF
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Very nice announcement
Diablo 3x Team
http://www.diablo3x.com
This is sute the hugest gaming announcement in long time, im very excited.
Very nice.. cant wait for the release
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I CANT WAIT FOR IT COME!!!!
cant wait for diablo 3 i think that guy is right cause people will finsih it and get bored of doing it again so they want to test therte skills aganist other people online but i still cant wait GO DIABLO 3!!!!!!!!
WHEN IS THE REALSEASE DATE SOMEONE SUBMIT THE DATE PLZ I WANT TO KNOW AND GO DIABLO AGAIN
is this game D3 online or like in D2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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