Speculation Mounts As Blizzard Splash Screen Gets Chilly
Written by Kevin Alexander   
Tuesday, 24 June 2008 05:30
It\'s ICY BITCHES

The internet has been abuzz since yesterday when Blizzard changed their splash screen to the above image leading many to believe that they have something big to announce this weekend during the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational. Could it be Diablo 3? A Starcraft 2 date announcement? Wrath Of The Litch King date/beta? Starcraft Ghost?!?!

We'll have our eyes peeled for you so stay tuned!


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written by Xerxes3rd, June 24, 2008
Although this could be something to do with StarCraft 2 or Diablo 3, I suspect that it's related to Wrath of the Lich King, as most of the zones in Warcraft's second expansion are icy and frozen-ish.
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written by Brent the Closet Geek, June 24, 2008
If it's Ghost I'll cry tears of joy, I was so hyped up for that.
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written by Brent the Closet Geek, June 24, 2008
Xerxes is probably right about it being some lame ass WoW announcement though.

Us starcrafters don't get no respect.
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written by Kevin Alexander, June 24, 2008
Hey, watch your tongue with the anti-Wow-isms around here buddy! smilies/wink.gif
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written by Xerxes3rd, June 24, 2008
If they're announcing Ghost, I'm sure that there's a release date for Duke Nukem 4 as well. =)
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written by Tralfaz, June 24, 2008
I dunno. Could be an announcement about the Lich King, but that splash screen could just as easily be minerals from Starcraft as it is some icy formation. I sincerely doubt it'd be related to a Diablo game, though. [Although they might announce the availability for it through the download store - but not exactly related to the splash screen, issit?] Anyway, to sum up my thoughts...

* Too soon for a Diablo announcement
* Too mysterious/quirky for a WoW announcement that we already know fairly well about
* Different/New IP? HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Yeah, I'm guessing it's related to Starcraft.
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written by Xerxes3rd, June 24, 2008
My money's still on some new feature of the next WoW expansion. I would bet they've been holding out on a couple huge aspects of it- stuff that wasn't in the leaked alpha.
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written by Xerxes3rd, June 24, 2008
Looks like someone finally solved the mystery:

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/4277/ice11ti3.jpg
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written by swiftwulf, June 24, 2008
Its more or less probably gonna be the expansion release date announcement. At least that is what a lot of people think, plus one of the runes etched into the ice is the same rune from Athas' Frostmourne sword. Plus the images have all been named ice1.jpg and such
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written by Tralfaz, June 24, 2008
Ah, well then, swiftwulf... If that's the case, you guys are probably right about the Lich King thing.
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written by Brent the Closet Geek, June 24, 2008
Thx swiftwulf.

Back to ignoring Blizzard again for another year.
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written by Kevin Alexander, June 24, 2008
"plus one of the runes etched into the ice is the same rune from Athas’ Frostmourne sword."

NERD!!!
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written by swiftwulf, June 24, 2008
I only know that because someone else found it smilies/tongue.gif another of the runes is from diablo 2. but seeing how the deathknight class heavily uses runes...
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written by Xerxes3rd, June 25, 2008
"I only know that because someone else found it"

Yeah right
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written by TheBBPS.com » Diablo III, June 28, 2008
[...] all those Blizzard tease splash screens have finally finished… and at the end of the ride we get the [...]

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