This is a translation from german submited by Calyx and ov3erlord:
Their new article offers what can be interpreted as hints: One is a link to a YouTube video showing a real life soccer game. The YouTube video is titled: Ring of Fire. The second clue is an image of Wolfgang Petry (a German singer). To non-German folks this means really ... NADA (nothing).PC Action: For long time the rumor kitchen has simmered. There have been indications again and again, that in the next weeks or months, the successor to the brillant diablo 2 should be announced. Several Internet portals, such as Diablofans.com and n4g.com, report over alleged references to a Diablo 3-announcement at a Gaming site by the name of pcactio..., oh, f*ck! Those are we!
But something is missing here...
So they say, that the 11x11 Pixel Picture from yesterday would be an impression from the Diablo-Follow-Up. The Problem : We are not allowed to say something about it. Not deny, nor say that the rumors are true, or even say anything. Hmm, how many more days are there to our next issue?
What do you think? what can it be? -- View the Source.
Our DiabloFans.com folks however started connecting the puzzle pieces -- that is kinda a stretch about a stretch, but here we go:
According to niceguyeddie the soccer game video titled Ring of Fire, might refer to Diablo's ring of fire when you fight him. (Watch the YouTube video referenced by PC Action)
According to Gromir, on the other hand, the Wolfgang Petry image refers to a karaoke song which lyrics say: ""Wahn - sinn. Warum schickst du mich in die ..." The second part to the lyric which is not included in the image is: " HÖLLE HÖLLE HÖLLE!"
In English: "Insa - nity. Why do you sent me to... HELL, HELL, HELL!"
http://www.blizzplanet.com/content/diablo3/wolfgang-petry.jpg
As reported this morning on the previous news, PC Action replied my email:
The bad news? The next PC Action issue comes out on June 19 (according to Gromir). It is hard to think they would talk about Diablo 3, before the Blizzard Worldwide Invitationals (June 29) ... and that is IF there is going to really be a game announcement ... and IF it is a Diablo game.PC Action: Unfortunately we are not allowed to talk about any details at the moment concerning this game
-- Lukasz Ciszewski
Ahh ... don't we hate and love and HATE teasers? Damn you, PC Action!
Note: Take in mind, PC Action might be teasing and messing (kidding) with Diablo fans, and that the game they refer to might be something entirely different from another company. Just a possibility.
UPDATE June 6: PC Action added a new small image showing fire. The image file is titled pic_d3_2.jpg --- These guys really want the teasing ball rolling. Either this game is Doom 4, Diablo 3, or a Hellgate: London expansion. There are other games recently announced such as Duke Nukem Forever (PC Action is currently showing screenshots of that game on another article today).
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Considering the date of the next release, it seems that they are just teasing us because they know how deprived we are lol.
http://www.pcaction.de/?article_id=646107 .. 11 pixel image from i'm guessing pictures they have seen.
When Diablo 3 is finally announced, and this just turns out to be a brick on the cover art we are all going to feel about 100 times stupider
your signature is twisted dude, =)
Yeah but then again the origional source picture could have only been a thumbnail or something to begin with so I'm not entirely ruling out that possibliity. All I'm saying is that this is pretty much like looking at that picture of a rock on mars and saying its a tusken raider... your heads just playing games with ya =)
wtf is that from? lmao
As for the image. I played around with it in Photoshop last night. Didnt save it, but it wasnt much better than what has been posted. The left character clearly *looks* like an A but the right one I would say is definitely not a B. It looks more like a G if anything. The bottom portion is curved at too much of an extreme to be a B. But I think this image might not display writing. Below the area that everyone is focusing on there is an element that is common in vine type designs. I think thats what everything is - artistic engravings. Something you may see on armor, helmet, or even just wall.
Point is, it most likely isnt a logo. Its probably just a highly magnified point, most likely on a significant image, but on an area that is certain to not give the topic away.