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Blizzard Announces Diablo 3

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the mouse-buttons-beware dept.

stpk4 writes "After a week-long tease by Blizzard, Diablo 3 has just been announced in Paris. The splash screen has been updated at their homepage and The Escapist has the first write-up." While there aren't many details available yet, it is known that Deckard Cain returns to help our heroes yet again.

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  1. Other forms of payment by MooseMuffin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps Blizzard and I can simplify our relationship and I can just hand them my soul. They seem to have a pretty good handle on it as it is.

  2. Dialbo 3 by jollyreaper · · Score: 5, Funny

    The sounds you hear are college careers ending before they've even begun.

    --
    Kwisatz Haderach
    Sell the spice to CHOAM
    This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
    1. Re:Dialbo 3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh krud. Fool me once shame on you, Blizzard, feel me twice shame on me. There goes my second chance at finally graduating. At this rate, I'll never be able to afford my own basement.

    2. Re:Dialbo 3 by flyingsquid · · Score: 5, Funny
      The sounds you hear are college careers ending before they've even begun.

      Yes, and it sounds like this:

      click.

      click.

      clickclick.

      click.

      clickclickclick.

      clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick...

  3. Phew by Godji · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am so glad I never got around to playing the first two. That way, I'll have a good reason not to play this one - I've missed the storyline.

    Think of the countless hours I saved by saving countless hours twice before!

  4. Bring out the nerf bat by Admiral+Ag · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought I'd be first with: It's clear that witch doctors are massively overpowered. I demand a nerf.

    --
    "by that I mean people who don't sit on slashdot all day wondering why everyone else isn't building robots" DECS
  5. Oh the humanity by Scr3wFace · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just when I kick my crack habbit... Go figure

  6. Yeah, so, the gem by Yacoby · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, so, I have been to the site, but what does the gem do? I heard if you click it 100 times, you get sent a beta...

    1. Re:Yeah, so, the gem by Bieeanda · · Score: 5, Funny

      The gem is working as intended.

  7. What are we killing now? by andytrevino · · Score: 5, Funny

    We've already killed Diablo in Diablo 1. Then, in Diablo II, we killed him AGAIN, and killed his brothers and scores of underling bosses.

    Are we now killing him a THIRD time, along with his brothers, cousins, college roommate, and that guy he talked to at the bus stop last week? How does Evil(tm) finance its operation and pay its underling bosses? More importantly, how many computer mice must the forces of Good(tm) sacrifice to stop this nonsense?!

  8. Early alpha review up by TheGreatOrangePeel · · Score: 5, Funny
    to quote the review for the alpha,

    Clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclick...

    1. Re:Early alpha review up by M0ralGray · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm hoping the collector's edition comes with a case of mice.

  9. Re:Not only splash screen by Dachannien · · Score: 5, Funny

    All I see is fifty bazillion unnecessary Flash widgets, with a smidgen of text way at the bottom. They even apparently require Flash just to show a fancy capital "T".

    Maybe that's the point. In Diablo III, you, the hapless adventurer, are given the Nerd's Gaming Rig of Total Righteousness (Unique Item), and must venture through the Gates of Hell to destroy Diablo's armies of pointless Flash widgets.

    In the expansion, you essentially do the same thing, except now they're all Silverlight widgets, and you face off against a chair-throwing Steve Ballmer at the end.

  10. Re:Rating Pending by Kagura · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did anyone else watching the (very impressive and representative) gameplay video think to yourselves, "Pick up the chipped star topaz. Pick it up. WHERE ARE YOU GO--PICK IT UP!!"?

    Ahhhh, this is the game for me. :)