Who doubted that Diablo 3 was coming12:18 -- Footage of large scale battles, comets streaking across the sky, demons, Diablo 3 officially announced.
12:25 -- Each piece of gear is custom designed for each class. Barbarian puts on demonic sort of garb with giant devil horns. Barbarian can hop across gaps on the map. Barbarian dislodged a rock wall and dropped it on zombies, killing them. Demoing moving whirlwind attack.
12:31 -- Diablo 3 is first and foremost a co-operative game, says Blizzard. New Witch Doctor class can summon pets, control minds of his enemies, and cast diseases
12:36 -- Multiplayer will work over battle.net. [Possible Spoiler]Heads into a final fight against some gigantic moving trees. Final boss here, called siegebreaker assault beast, is absolutely gigantic, maybe around six or seven times taller than the player characters.[/Possible Spoiler]
1:42 -- Just got out of an interview with Blizzard executive vice-president of game design Rob Pardo. He says Diablo III was in development way back when Blizzard North was still around. The game will still feature PvP online and nightmare modes. Player limits online have yet to be set. As of right now, Blizzard won't reveal any other character classes beyond the barbarian and the witch doctor. Pardo told me the number of total classes in D3 will be similar to D2's original release.[Possible Spoiler] Also, in Diablo 3 diablo makes a return (obviously) and takes place after the events of D2.[/Possible spoiler] Expect the full interview in the near future.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/884/884836p1.html- Blog source for D3 timestamped updates.
Blizzard Splash has been morphed into D3 animated splash if anyone wants to hop over to http://blizzard.com
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3 for a direct link into the D3 portion of it. I know Blizzard purchased the Diablo3 domain a few months back so it'll only be a matter of time before they've got that up and active, especially seeing as how its stopped forwarding to the fan forums that were originally housed there.
Basically it's been stated that the game will contain five classes, but from what I gathered it was implied that the expansion pack would add atleast two more classes.
Male and Female choices to class have been confirmed, now to wait and see if as Mako put it "Amazons become Rangers".
P.S.: Thanks for the heads up Dusk, if it wasn't for you this wouldn't be posted right now. <3<3<3<3
P.P.S: Sorry if this isn't the proper sub forum for this topic, also I whited out two possible spoilers although I didn't see them as such. If you would like to know what they are just highlight the quoted section or visit the original blog.
Also on a sidenote if we have any diablo freaks I have a great screensnip of the arch angel from the Diablo 3 index. I managed to get it right between the transition from load bar being visible and the play teaser/game play buttons popping up. Its on my photobucket if anyone wants it. (My homepage.)