There is no other way to entitle the news which is to be read on Diablofans.com, formally known as Diablo3.com. We all know about the mysterious countdown which was to be seen on Diablo3.com and Blizzplanet.com and we all thought that a serious news about Diablo 3 would be revealed today. But we all have been wrong.

The only thing we get to know is that Blizzard claimed the domain Diablo3.com since a while and that they now switched it to Diablofans.com.
You already know about this procedure? Well, maybe because of that this already happened to Diabloiii.es two month ago. But the webmaster of this site did not make it very popular.
But nevertheless it is very interesting that Blizzard claims such a famous and big domain as Diablo3.com. Draw your own conclusions.

“The number of days until half the web links to Diablo3.com. But why???”
“The Church of the Triune will be shaken in 13 Days”
We don´t know what the author of this mystical countdown wants to tell us. It’s just sure that he attracted the interest of gaming sites all over the world, with this action.

Wednesday in two weeks we’ll know if this was just a successful promotion for attrackting many visitors and for collecting some backlinks or if it was really worth waiting for a great news to come out. It’s difficult to imagine that it will be an announcement of Diablo 3. Why should Blizzard let the cat out of the bag on a fansite?

No, we are not up to play an April fool’s joke on you, that’s something other websites might have already done and most of them are not really convincing. Among all the stupid Diablo related hoaxes today, like this here, there is a very inventive and funny one. Namely the “Diablo Loot Piñata” introduced by Blizzard.

The producer says:

“The Diablo Loot Piñata provides the same fun and excitement as traditional piñatas while also letting longtime Diablo players relive their epic battles with the Prime Evil.”

And for the ones who still believe that Diablo 3 was announced, the first trailer was released or any secret was revealed today: fake, fake, fake…..

Two weeks ago, Gayardos, the admin of the Spanish Diablo 3 blog - diabloiii.es, reported that he received a certified mail from a law firm by order of Blizzard in which he is told to give up this domain, to redirect it or to transfer it to Blizzard.
He seems to have no real chance to keep the domain, as he wrote in a longer blog post today.

It is not the first time that Blizzard claims a domain which includes parts of registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment and it won’t be the last time. But that they took action at this point in time, close to upcoming WWI 08, is very remarkably. It could be another hint for an announcement of Diablo 3 in the near future.

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Blizzard is now the official owner of the domain diabloiii.es.

Yesterday evening Blizzard put new job offers online. Ok, that’s nothing special but this time they all start with :

“ The team behind Diablo I and II is looking for a skilled ….”

Why should be mentioned that the team behind Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 is looking for new staff members if the project they are working on, has nothing to do with Diablo? This seems to be one of the strongest hints so far that Diablo 3 is already under development.
Blizzard is looking for a Lead 3D Level Designer, a Senior 3D Level Designer, a 3D Level Designer and a Associate 3D Level Designer as well.

Some people are speculating that the first information about a Diablo sequel could be revealed at the upcoming WWI. One reason for that is that Blizzard will only permit entrance to WWI, for visitors above the age of 16.
But neither the WoW Addon, “Wrath of The Lich King” nor “Starcraft 2″ are containing material which would justify that sanction. Draw your own conclusions.

Tickets for the Worldwide Invitational 2008 will be available next week on Blizzard’s official WWI Website.

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Tickets are on sale now.