Ice Shattered: Diablo 3 Announced

So much for a slow transition via the ice hole. Blizzard.com now features a fancy-shmancy flash animation announcing Diablo 3 — ice nowhere to be found. Who knows, maybe they had a good reason for all that frosty goodness.

Perhaps you will be able to ice your enemies with Sub-Zero like swiftness, or perhaps it was nothing more than a marketing attempt which, in the end, appears to have no logical connection to the fire filled reveal that was Diablo 3.

However, while we here at Ripten are a little miffed over the lack of connection between the two, we realize that things could have been worse. The reveal could have given birth to the monstrosity below. Enjoy a glimpse at what could have been after the jump.

Splash intro page aside, the official Diablo 3 webpage looks pretty cool in its own right and will surely have WoW players writing Blizzard asking for gigantic shoulder pads with white glowing tentacles shooting upward from them.

Kool-Aid Image Source: thiendo.blogspot.com (via: Penny Arcade Forum)

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  • John Kershaw

    First to say I knew it :P

  • http://www.ripten.com Chad Lakkis

    Eh, go jump in an ice hole….

    :)

  • Krispy Demon

    This blows, I was really looking forward to Lost Vikings!

  • Boobman69

    first to say:

    What the F*ck is Diablo!? And I’m assuming they made 2 more before this?

    hmmmm…back to the Wii…

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  • madpuppy

    Chad, it’s more like “blow it out your ice hole”

  • LC

    how else do you keep fire on ice?

  • http://www.ripten.com Chad Lakkis

    @mad,

    Yes. I should have found a way to work that line into my post.

    @LC,

    Has nothing to do with fire on ice — what seemed silly is the fact that they did’t follow through with their ice reveal.

    I would have been happy if upon hitting the webpage you saw the creature duck his head back into the darkness — screen fades to black, and then they start the fireworks, but the way they just tossed the ice play out the window seemed like too big a disconnect.

    Chad-