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    posted a message on Blizzard Product Slate "Leak" Diablo 3 stuff!
    Front page of Mmo-champion has an interesting picture. Take a look! (Mmo-champion is usually pretty spot on, they don't post anything without decent evidence. He explains why he posted it below)

    Blizzard Product Slate "Leak"
    People are pretty excited about a new picture going around the web, supposedly a leak of the schedule of Blizzard's release for the next year. I don't usually comment that kind of things but ..


    Source
    The image appeared on MMOGamesite.com, apparently this is an english MMO site based in China and I already know a lot of people will hate me for reporting that news. The document itself is probably a slide from an internal presentation to executives and/or shareholders, and seems to be 8 months old according to the date at the top.

    Battle.net 2.0
    BNET2 - Well, that's the Battle.net we now use on WoW.
    BNET2MapMarket - This is pretty self explanatory, but I'm a little surprised by the timeline.
    BNET2 3rd Parties - The end-game with Battle.net is as far as I know to compete with Steam. One of the best way to do that would be to use the new platform to distribute a popular game, and if that game was an upcoming Call of Duty title the Activision/Blizzard merge would suddenly make a lot of sense, right?

    Starcraft 2
    Nothing really new here, but I have no idea what SC2 Phoenix is.

    Diablo 3
    Target release date in a year makes sense. The 2 expansions aren't really a surprise but I wouldn't take it as a confirmation, that's usually the kind of stuff you mention in company meetings with the higher-ups to make everyone happy.

    World of Warcraft
    WoWMobile - Done/in-progress with the mobile Auction House and the upcoming extra features.
    Cataclysm - Well, we all know about that.
    WoW Brazil - Portuguese translation of the game. I already heard a couple of rumors about that and at this point I'm 99% sure it's true, this is one of the reason why I think this document is legit. (The 2 others being the TCG Game and Titan)
    WoW X4 - 4th expansion in a year and a half sounds very plausible.
    WoW TCG - TCG Game, this part will probably remind you of one of my old posts ... The Future of World of Warcraft: TCG
    WoW Movie - I'd say the timeline is off because the document is a few months old, before Sam Raimi decided to work on other projects before the Warcraft movie (but I still want to believe).
    WoW X5 - 5th expansion a year and a half later, nothing surprising.

    Titan
    Yeah, that's Blizzard's new MMOFPS and I might have hinted at that in the past but I don't have a lot of extra information about it and the release date is just an estimation. Don't assume that it will be released by the end of 2013 based on that document, it would be very stupid.

    Conclusion
    The document is probably legit, even if it's already a little old it still confirms and backups a couple of information I already mentioned, and mentions the portuguese translation for the first time in public. Don't take it as a hard fact and don't bring it up too much on official forums but I think it's an interesting piece of information.

    Edit: Titian confirmed! 12/18/2010

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jos4UWnDM88&feature=player_embedded

    Cheers, Sinister Demon.
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    posted a message on Class based quests?
    I remember them saying there weren't any gender based quests in the Q&A. Also, I could have sworn they said classes were going to have their own starting story lines and that the demon hunters have their own training camp for when they pick up new recruits.
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    posted a message on HOLY CRAP! Monk was in Diablo 1 Expansion! Live Video Here!
    I enjoyed playing Diablo but I've never heard of this expansion. Nice find, even if they're not from the same story line. :)
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    posted a message on PVP Orbs?
    I had a chance to play an arena battle in D3 and the health orbs didn't spawn until about a minute or two into the battle. They were a very nice feature while battling and added a fun element to the game. Our team of two Wizards and a Barb was very strong and we ended up winning 11-3 and our entire team got autographed posters of the demon hunter signed by all the developers. :)

    -SD
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