The game takes place on Sanctuary, a world of dark fantasy. Unbeknownst to most of its inhabitants, Sanctuary was saved some twenty years ago from the demonic forces of the underworld by a few brave and powerful heroes. Most of those warriors who directly faced the armies of the Burning Hells -- and were fortunate enough to survive -- went mad from their experiences. And most of the others have buried their haunted memories and pushed the horrors from their thoughts. In Diablo III, players will return to Sanctuary to confront evil in its many forms once again.

yea man!!!! watching the streaming now...showing necromancer.....haha..just now was barbarian..i missed out the intro part......but they call it witch doctor....omg...and they maintain then 45 degree view...!!!!not those 3D like fable

12:36 -- Multiplayer will work over battle.net. 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.

12:35 -- Witch doctor using a fire bomb spell. Can summon a wall of zombies that stays stationary, but the zombies in the wall flail their arms and do damage to their oponents.

12:33 -- Witch doctor can cast out locus swarm, which spreads between targets and deals damage. Can summon mongrel things that he can cast locust swarm on, which buffs their damage. Outdoor environment now. Quite pretty in that vibrant, slightly cartoonish Blizzard graphical style. Like with StarCraft 2 and it's similarities to the original, Diablo 3 looks and sounds, at least at a glance, quite similar to previous games. Witch doctor also has a mass fear type of ability.

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.

12:29 -- Barbarian can use ground stomp attack to get skeleton warriors to drop their shields, making them easy to take out. Cultist enemies must be taken out quickly or they transform into a more destructive force. Saying there's more story and questing type of stuff in the game. Scripted events like walls breaking apart. Cultists cummoning in gigantic, fat demon who's shock waves shatter stone pillars in the environment.

12:27 -- Deckard Cain is in the game. When talking to NPCs, the game appears to switch to an interface that highlights the character model. Have to rescue Cain from this cathedral.

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.

12:24 -- Red orbs that drop from enemies can replenish health without you having to use items. Talking about demon foes he's fighting, they have a summon ability. Barbarian's jumping attack covers quite a distance. Goes flying up staincase. Also appear to have a shockwave type of attack. Still procure items from bookcases. Blizzard touting interactive environment as an inportant feature. Barbarian triggers a trap chest that spawns four spectral enemies around him.

12:21 -- The axe guy is the barbarian class. Says improvements have been made, like the hotbar for skills. Using the mouse wheel and tab key you can quickly switch between skills. Whoing inventory. Appears to still have slot limits. Using enchanted axes with frost and lighting ,which stuns and freezes opponents.

12:20 -- It's apparently still an action RPG. Same interface -- red health and blue orbs. Skill bar at bottom. 3/4 overhead perspective. Character with 2 axes hacking at demons in what appears to be a foggy cathedral. Has a jumping attack where he smashes the two axes into the ground.

12:20 - Jay Wilson, lead designer on Diablo 3 coming out. He's going to demo the game.

12:18 -- Footage of large scale battles, comets streaking across the sky, demons, Diablo 3 officially announced.

12:16 -- Lights going red...world premiere of Blizzard's newest game. Fire on the end of a stick, lighting a candle, it's a cinematic. Candle sits on a skull. Blizzard Entertainment logo in a stained glass display. Showing castle in a mountain range.

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Thank god its not an mmo!

anyone can show the game play video?

its like being in secondary school all over agian

hopefully no more fighting baal and diablo !!! hopefully more item to be play...

The game's name is Diablo 3...you are most certainly be fighting him.

LoL its not called baal.

hopefully no more fighting baal and diablo !!!hopefully more item to be play...

I trust blizzard not to burden us with ridiculously high system requirements like what other devs are so fond of doing

I trust blizzard not to burden us with ridiculously high system requirements like what other devs are so fond of doing

DOWNLOADING WOOT ! I'm am sooooo excited ! Big chances of buying the ORI for collection !!

good old diablo woot when i played diablo 1 i cant even read i just kill everything in sight that was pure fun

does anyone can download the gameplay trailer from blizzard.com? the downloader seems not running lol, always 0%

does anyone can download the gameplay trailer from blizzard.com? the downloader seems not running lol, always 0%

I already split the topic, so this will be the official thread

wooohooo!! Diablo is back!!

when release ah?

last i read it might be on 2010 or latest 2011

perhaps we can bz ourselves with other anticipated games 1st....red alert 3 n fallout 3 any1? 

then hope starcraft 2 to release earlier...

holy shit...
so...diablo is back?

Magician(dont remember the exact name)

Its about damm time they make a sequel for the best RPG ever created.

Hmm, wonder if it will ever crossover to the consoles?

Blizz needs something on the PS3/360/Wii to show 'em how a HACK N SLASH should be done!

u want diablo 3? play it on pc where it should be played 

Holy Sh1t!!! I've been waiting for long time !!!!!!!

Which gives me ample time to rethink my "shift" strategy... I'm seriously considering to go dual boot with Linux around next year because I can't really trust if Win 7 won't be "The Bloat" a'la Vista. All of this hardware decision making are a pain in the neck. Not to the potential moolah amount would be better spent on willy nilly getaways with my gf on an island for a month... Well for me at least.

Ahh but diff story if Blizz can pull a Linux version eh?

patience in waiting for good released games.

starcraft 2

diablo 3

is two games made godly out of Blizzard. u gotta thank them!

=)

Which gives me ample time to rethink my "shift" strategy... I'm seriously considering to go dual boot with Linux around next year because I can't really trust if Win 7 won't be "The Bloat" a'la Vista. All of this hardware decision making are a pain in the neck. Not to the potential moolah amount would be better spent on willy nilly getaways with my gf on an island for a month... Well for me at least.

Ahh but diff story if Blizz can pull a Linux version eh?