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Once the code is entered into the field, you are treated to a fun little video of StarCow flying through the sky with a trailing rainbow behind him; much akin to a certain toaster pastry kitty you may have seen before. Once the video runs, your account will replace the image of the Diablo III beta box with the comical StarCow box. While there is no real reward to this cheat, it is certainly good for a laugh. It also remains unclear on whether or not any other code works in this field for some other cheat. So, if you have tons of time on your hands, feel free to keep plugging in random Blizzard-themed obscure phrases.

3D Capable?

While not exactly new, sleeplesscynic noticed today that NVidia's 3D graphics card listed Diablo III as one of the supported games for the card. While there has been no confirmation by Blizzard about 3D support, there is no doubt that monster torsos flying at your screen would be awesome. Of course, with an isometric view, the technology could only be used for so much but at least the option may remain for those who have both the card and monitor needed for it.

NVIDIA 3D Vision

• The 3D Vision Controller (USB) driver is included in this driver package. Users are no longer required to install the 3D Vision CD driver or a separate 3D Vision Controller driver. For more information, please view this knowledgebase article.
• Adds support for viewing 3DVisionLive.com and YouTube 3D with NVIDIA SLI PCs. Please view this knowledgebase article for more information on 3D Vision Window Mode.
• Window mode is now the default viewing option for the 3D Vision Photo Viewer.
• Added the following 3D Vision game profiles:
  • Aion
  • Diablo 3
  • Dead Rising 2: Off The Record
  • Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) 2
  • From Dust
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2
  • Last Remnant Benchmark
  • Men of War Assault Squad
  • Stock Car
• Update the following 3D Vision game profiles:
  • Dirt 3 – updated rating to Excellent

Blues News

First mention in the Blues was Blizzcon coverage from numerous sites. Of course on top and with the best articles was our very own DiabloFans. You can also find more coverage of the even from other sites as well. Plus, for even further coverage of Blizzcon, here at DiabloFans, you can check out our Blizzcon Hub with linls to every article covering the event.


For those of you pre-ordering the Collector's Edition but want to play at midnight with everyone else, Bashiok informed us that there are several companies who are able to ship the game out ahead of time to ensure that you receive the game in time to play on release. I have had personal experience with Amazon in this area and had received many games by day of release. Otherwise, you can pre-order at stores like Gamestop that will have midnight releases so you can play at the same time as those who get the digital download.


Blizzard also released a blog a week ago, although getting new light thanks to the recent WoW blog, that follows the day of a Senior Artist for Diablo III. Following the day of Michael Nicholson, you can read just what exactly happens behind those pearly gates at Irvine. From 7:30 in the morning, Michael is working on new UI designs for the Diablo III vendors. You can follow the path from his concepts to team discussions. Getting a chance to meet with Jay Wilson for approval to the amount of programming and art it takes to put it into the game. A simple change like adding a timer on top of the skill with a cool down goes through multiple iterations and stages of approval all while having to be constantly tweaked to perfection. While the blog is interesting enough, it also shows the amount of detail and dedication going into Diablo III. Something as important as the UI's of the game have gone through multiple iterations since the game as revealed and continues to go through changes as we have seen in patch 5 of the beta. All of this translates into the other numerous mechanics and designs used in Diablo III. If you would like to check out the entire entry, you can check out the blog over at Battle.net.

Blizzard has also updated their Blizzcon site with 110 new photos from this year's Blizzcon.


Finally, it appears that another bug has found it's way into the beta. Error 24000 has occurred for numerous people making it so that games cannot be created. Because of this, the beta is currently down and unplayable, giving people the much needed break to play a new game hitting the shelves at midnight.


Curse Contests

Speaking of this other game, Curse is currently holding a contest to promote payers to create new mods for Skyrim.

Love the Elder Scrolls series and can’t wait for Skyrim? We do and we’re looking for mod authors to help us in making creative, useful, and imaginative mods to play with after the game launches! With the new skyrimforge.com, unleash your creativity with loads of development tools meant to streamline your mod-sharing process.

The first 35 uploaded Skyrim mods that meet our approval guidelines in each of the four main categories, will earn some phat loot to line the pockets of their authors!