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More WoW, Major 2007 Announcement for Blizzard

Blizzard has announced their intention to follow up this year's Burning Crusade expansion with a new World of Warcraft add-on every year. While not terribly surprising, they have also announced that they're working on a major announcement for next year. Consensus seems to be that it will likely be another Starcraft game, given comments by Blizzard COO Paul Sams. "StarCraft is my absolutely favorite game of all time. As you probably already know, there is no doubt that we will continue the StarCraft and Diablo franchise, and trust me, I will be the happiest person in the world when we announce StarCraft 2."

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  1. This Just In.... by cjb909 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Blizzard announces they will be making a major Announcement!

  2. Ladies and gentlemen.. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have an important announcement to make...

    ..and that is next year, I shall make an important announcement.

    *bow*
    Thank you, thank you ladies and gentlemen, you're far too kind. I'd like to thank you all for being here today, I'd like to thank Rob Malda and everyone else who made this possible, and I'd like to thank my mom.
    *bow*
    Thank you all for your time, please enjoy the cocktails.

  3. Starcraft 2 ? Diablo 3? by Chaffar · · Score: 2, Funny

    You guys are all wrong... They're obviously gonna release Blackthorne 2 :)

    1. Re:Starcraft 2 ? Diablo 3? by another_fanboy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Monsters are no match for a man with a shotgun. I wonder if this is where Bruce Campbell got his insperation...

  4. Ob. Futurama Quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hermes: Sweet gorilla of Manila! A letter from the Central Bureaucracy!

    [Hermes takes a piece of paper out of the red tube.] Attention, Hermes Conrad: You are about to receive a letter from the Central Bureaucracy.

    [Another red tube appears and Hermes takes a piece of paper out of.] My God! It's from the Central Bureaucracy!

  5. Obligatory Penny Arcade by Zinnian · · Score: 2, Funny
  6. Re:Geez, and this is news? by happyemoticon · · Score: 4, Funny
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

    San Francisco, Calif., August 22, 2006: Happyemoticon today disclosed breaking news on behalf of Channel 2 that sometime, possibly within the year, there would be breaking news of titanic proportions reported by Channel 2.

    "We cannot overstate the magnitude of this 'newsish' report," Happyemoticon stated, his jowls flapping manically with the stress, "Although none of our reporters have yet been tasked with the assignment of finding this 'news,' current research by the boys in R&D suggests that we're onto something. We're not ready to disclose what this 'something' is, but rest assured, when we ascertain what this news is, the release of the news that our breaking news is ascertained will certainly be big news. Really big. News."

    A variety of claims and speculation have emerged as people try to piece together facts in an attempt to determine what the news referred to by this news report is referring to, from aliens to typhoons to the Rapture, many of them in turn framed as news stories. Jim Joebob, a news theorist working for News Corporation (parent company of Fox Channel 2), theorizes that the news' news may be so new it hasn't even happened yet. "A contact in their lab mentioned they had a perpetual random number generator which they use to 'sniff out' incoming stories, by sensing local anomalies in causality as evinced by the frequency of 1 or 0. I am sure of the integrity of this device, as it is apparently powered by a hamster, gerbil, or some other rodent, known to be extremely high sources of entropy."

    "Apparently for the last two weeks," he continued, "they've been coming up with nothing but 1/2. If this hearsay news is news, then there should even be a news story about the news flibbilityblah."

  7. Re:World of.... by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ooo, I want to play as a Zergling rogue!