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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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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.
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.)
If you add "&fmt=18" to the query string of a YouTube video, it'll play the high quality version (if there is one).
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.