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Blizzard Splash Screen Hinting at New Project

Not much to scrutinize

By Andrei Dumitrescu, Games Editor

24th of June 2008, 07:38 GMT

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There's a new splash screen up at the Blizzard's home page and it's clear that the soon to merge with Activision company is preparing for something big. The only question now is how big and how it will affect gamers.

The new splash screen does not show much but it's clearly designed to turn on the rumor machine
while Blizzard waits for the upcoming Worldwide Invitational to make an official announcement. Thank God that the invitational is just one week away, taking place on June 28 and June 29.

The most talked about speculation is that the teaser splash page is pointing the finger at a Diablo game, which would be the third in the series. There has been a boat load of speculations recently about a new Diablo game, but there's not one shred of evidence that Blizzard is working or even thinking of working on such a title. The image on the splash page itself does not hint at Diablo, with its weird crystals reflecting some sort of otherworldly light.

The pessimists are saying that the teaser is just referring to the long announced Wrath of the Lich King expansion for the MMO World of Warcraft and that at the upcoming event, Blizzard will unveil more details regarding the expansion and set a firm release date for it. The image is just a placeholder that will be changed with the official box art once the announcement is made. It could also be something linked to Starcraft II and an announcement regarding that game.

My guess? Blizzard has finally got around to making the Ghost game, that stealth third person action title based on the Starcraft universe that enjoyed so much press attention a few years back. I know the picture does not point at Ghost in any way but if Blizzard really wants to please some fans, a Ghost related announcement is surely the right way to go.

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Blizzard | Ghost | Wrath of the Lich King | Diablo 3 | Starcraft II


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Comment #1 by: Yikar on 24 Jun 2008, 09:54 GMT reply to this comment

I won't throw any guesses, but I will cross out the ediotrs guess for this beign a Ghost announcement - Metzen has quite clearly stated they dropped that project and even though it saddens him and he might try and do something else with the IP ( i.e. Novas charcater) there won't be a Ghost game. So I guess we'll have to wait and see ;))


Comment #2 by: Bahar on 24 Jun 2008, 13:02 GMT reply to this comment

I think it is about the new expansion pack of world of warcraft.The picture reminds me of "wrath of lich king" and also,all of the websites about blizzard starts with this image.
I hope the new expansion will be launched soon.


Comment #3 by: Jimmyhat on 25 Jun 2008, 08:28 GMT reply to this comment

Why would they do bring this much attention to a game we ALL already know about? Not only know about,but have known a ton about it for a while. My guess is that it's either Diablo 3 or something totally new. The runes on the splash screens match runes from Diablo 2, and the shape they're going at might form a star shape if the next two fit as the 3 have so far. Hell was frozen over in Diablo 2 so the ice could be hell breaking through. Ontop of that, if you head over to the Blizzard site and check out their job openings. There are several TOP SECRET : NEXT GEN job openings so something big is in the works. Ontop of that, there is the hidden image working itself out each day through the .CSS code. No way they would do this for a game we already knew about for so long and knew so much about it. Ontop of THAT :P, in 2002 Blizzard did this type of thing to unveil SC : Ghost and then did it in 2007 to unveil SC2, so it's something new and it's going to make a bunch of peeps go nutso! More nutso then the koreans when they heard about SC2. Ontop of that!!! The tag in the URL for the splash there is the code that spells out WWI, their invitational, when the numbers match the corresponding letter in the alphabet, example would be 23 = W since W is the 23rd letter. So far it's D O W. I believe it might be Diablo Online Worldwide _ _ _ something about it being announced worldwide. Idk, but it should be exciting!

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