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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Could it be?
That's what I saw the first time.
Probably my mind just making my eyes see stuff.
D I A B L O I I I
Set ablaze?
It's prolly because im tired
Looks like an 'A' & a '9' . Kinda
That sounds strangely farmiliar to what someone else I think I know would say...
Do I know you ?
- g
Stands for...
All you get
Its probably a cell phone image,maybe taken at a game preview?
i sorta see what your saying dragon but it looks more like
D I A B L O
.... I I I
of course you can only s A B and the 2 I's
and someones fingers point at the screen or int he way of the camera.
definatly a cell phone image, if it was taken as a picture.
**this is my first time posting and i made an account recently but ive been following this site for quite awhile now cause i am a diablo fan. all these rumours and little things that sorta point in the direction of diablo3 made me interested enough to post, i hope diablo3 is announced at WWI or A New Game based on PVP which would be an MMO
Impossibility. Diablo can only be released (officially) by the company that owns the rights to it. And currently that is Blizzard.
The pic kinda resembles the A and the R in the logo.
Does anyone know if PC Action magazine is actually an accredited gaming magazine? Ive never heard of them. To me they seem like a bunch of goofy bastards who are just trying to toy with us.