Blizzard Announces Diablo 3

June 28th, 2008 | Software

It’s been a huge couple of years for Blizzard Entertainment — with the World of Warcraft being such a hit with the fans, as well as anticipation building up for the inevitable hit Starcraft 2, I couldn’t have expected anything more. Nonetheless, Blizzard Entertainment has once again shocked crowds by announcing the upcoming game Diablo 3. With the Diablo series already an extremely successful hit, I have to wonder — will Blizzard be able to pull it off once again? From all the demos that I’ve seen circulating around, it sure looks like it.

Diablo 3 Box Art

Source: http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo3/images/diablo-3-announcement.jpg

With myself not being a huge Diablo fanatic (I was always a bit creeped out by the freaky environment), I did have a chance to try Diablo 2 out. Diablo 3 will retain many of Diablo’s successful environments and characters, including character classes (a new one is called the Witch Doctor) and even the return of Deckard Cain!

Unfortunately, no release dates or even minimum specifications have been given by Blizzard yet, which I think is perfectly reasonable because they only announced Diablo 3 very recently.

It has been twenty years since the events of Diablo II. Of those who faced the Lords of Hatred, Terror, and Destruction in the battle over the fate of Sanctuary, there are few still living who can bear to remember the horrors that the Prime Evils wrought upon the world. And of those who did not witness the terrible events firsthand, most believe the stories to be little more than myth. But something evil is stirring once again in Tristram, and it may already have claimed its first victim: Deckard Cain.

That aside, I’ve got nothing more to give you but a bunch of links to more comprehensive sources that had a firsthand look at the demo, so I’ll give it to them from here.

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