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Blizzard Announces Diablo 3
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.
Grab the skull on the right-hand side and use it as a slider. That's how it works here on Safari.
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If I remember correctly, the destruction of the worldstone keep at the end of the expansion left the world open to chaos in some way that could go towards explaining it all.
Doesn't the Blizzard native OS X installer, also discussed here, work on MacIntels?
I've been considering using Diablo II to wean myself from a year long umbilical WoW connection and hadn't had a chance to try it yet.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
Youtube video of opening trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGNLFnADJ_0
Gameplay video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPxRoG4g6mw
and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnmD0aqDqTM
Not as high quality as on the official site, but you take what you can get, eh?
He wasn't killed in D1. The soulstone trapped his essence. Then your idiot hero sticks it in his head and becomes Diablo (aka "The Wanderer") in D2.
Don't know what happens in D3 obviously, but the soulstones are destroyed. My guess is something to do with Tyriel in Heaven. Maybe a war in Heaven leading to a new "Diablo"?
I run WoW under wine on ubuntu. Works perfectly, and even plays nice with the compiz fusion desktop effects. I can run WoW on one desktop, and then spin the cube to another to answer IMs or whatever.
On the FAQ page, they say that the system requirements will announced later.
Not as high quality as on the official site, but you take what you can get, eh?
Under the youtube video there's a "watch in high quality" link which will play it in similar quality to the official site.
The teaser didn't have much in it, but the gameplay video has some pretty sick and gruesome stuff happening in it. (Particularly at the end when they show you half of a big boss battle and the big boss picks up the barbarian and ... happens.)
That is true, and it could just be that I clicked on the teaser first and that's when I got the age prompt. There is a ton of blood flying around in the gameplay demo.
When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "Look out - the handle was once one of us."
If you add "&fmt=18" to the query string of a YouTube video, it'll play the high quality version (if there is one).
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/234936.html?playlist=featured
In case you didn't read the instruction manual that came with the first game, the only way to contain the flawed soulstone of mephisto was to implant it into the skull of the person most resistant to the lure of evil and to lock him away.
The hero of the first game was clearly aware of this and made the ultimate sacrifice, mind, body, and soul, to contain Diablo long enough for someone else to find a way to destroy him and his brothers and the soulstones.
Dammit, man, now you've got me geeking out.
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
Less than 1/4 of the Blizzard North people with credits on "Diablo II" went to Flagship. Also, only TWO people from Blizzard North with a credit on Diablo II are working in Irvine as of the past year! Just a few of the names who did NOT go to Flagship AND are not currently working in Irvine: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/diablo-ii/credits http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/hellgate-london/credits - Both people named as designers (Hedlund and Sexton) - The artist who created "Diablo" (Okamura) - The original animator of "Diablo" (Haas) - The lead programmer (Seis) - The entire in-game music/audio team (Stone, Petersen, Uelman) - The character artists behind the Paladin, Sorceress, and Barbarian and countless monsters (Johnson, Dashow) - The illustration genius behind the UI art (Boos) - All three level designers (McAuley, Scandizzo, Wilson) Additionally, Bill Roper never had an office at Blizzard North during the making of any of those releases - he moved soon AFTER they were released. The idea that "Well, Hellgate was a flop, so it must have been Blizzard all along that made it..." is unfounded and stupid. The sad reality is that Blizzard North was basically cast to the wind and can never be reformed in any real way.
This is a very valid point. 'Linux' is little more than a kernel. There's a half dozen or so interfaces built on top of that, with a few different types of environments available. It's not a lack of demand that's keeping commercial games from being released on Linux OSes, it's the fact that it has to conform to a number of different platforms within the Linux umbrella. With the rising costs of game development, nobody wants to bother going through the trouble.