{"id":96,"date":"2008-06-25T15:44:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T15:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/81\/"},"modified":"2016-08-24T15:19:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T20:19:35","slug":"81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/81\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 3 &#8220;Announced!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/article\/news\/diablo_3_announced\" target=\"_blank\">MaximumPC.com<\/a>, Jeff, eat your heart out:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-314 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/diablo-3-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"diablo 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/diablo-3-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/diablo-3.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here we go! The community site <a href=\"http:\/\/diabloii.net\/\">Diabloii.net<\/a> is reporting that Blizzard will be announcing the third game in its epic Diablo series at this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blizzard.com\/wwi08\/\">Worldwide Invitational<\/a> in Paris.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right.\u00a0 Diablo III is on its way!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;With this week&#8217;s speculation over the Blizzard teasers, more and more reports in the media, and numerous tips coming direct us at IncGamers from reliable inside industry sources in the past 24 hours, we now have confirmation from inside sources to say that Diablo 3 WILL be announced on Saturday at WWI Paris 2008.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blizzard&#8217;s Vice President of Design, Rob Pardo, already teased that a new game announcement was on the way in an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/blizzard-to-unveil-new-title-at-worldwide-invitational\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a> this morning.\u00a0 He&#8217;d know&#8211;the Blizzard frontman is delivering the keynote address at this year&#8217;s big gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, had you a dollar every time a news site swore that Diablo 3 was coming, you could have already hired the producers for Diablo IV <em>and<\/em> World of Diablo.\u00a0 Blizzard&#8217;s ongoing series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabloii.net\/articles\/667288\/wwi-splash-image-teasers\">teasing splash images<\/a> has a few days left before the big reveal.\u00a0 If this is just another Starcraft 2 race, expect to see a number of demon-killing enthusiast gamers eating hats&#8211;the taste certainly wouldn&#8217;t be new.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from MaximumPC.com, Jeff, eat your heart out: &#8220;Here we go! The community site Diabloii.net is reporting that Blizzard will be announcing the third game in its epic Diablo series at this week&#8217;s Worldwide Invitational in Paris.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right.\u00a0 Diablo III is on its way! &#8220;With this week&#8217;s speculation over the Blizzard teasers, more and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/81\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Diablo 3 &#8220;Announced!&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[141,142],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-blizzard","tag-diablo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}