XFire Slips WWI Game Announcement?

Update (3pm): The XFire WWI page has been edited, removing the Game Announcement part. For those skeptic, I took a screenshot before it got edited. I learned to take screenshots after Legendary Pictures pulled a similar stunt (removing and editing Diablo from the Films Under Development section).

- If you are wondering, I contacted my XFire liaison around noon. No response as of 3pm.
- Also one of my Blizzard liaisons. Blizzard has not made any press releases concerning a Game Announcement.

Original Story
XFire either accidentally posted there would be a Game Announcement based on the rumors sprung from DiabloFans.com and Blizzplanet, or they know something and oops ... slipped it. Did XFire confirm there will be a game announcement?

As usual, I will communicate with my XFire and Blizzard contacts for a comment to clarify this new rumor. Stay tuned for updates.

At this point, this is still considered a rumor -- keep that in mind. Blizzard has not made any official announcements concerning a a game announcement at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitationals.

This is what appears at the XFire website:

The Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, to be held in Paris on June 28th & 29th is sold out! If you can't attend, Xfire will be on the showfloor, bringing the event straight to your computer!

Get behind the scenes with Xfire during WWI to:
- Follow the opening ceremony and discover what new game will be announced in our chat rooms together with hundreds of other Blizzard fans
- Learn what the pros think of the latest Starcraft 2 developments, including the Zerg race
- Discover the latest version of the 2nd WoW Expansion, Wrath of the Lich King
- Meet the Blizzard devs and ask them your questions
- Get to see exclusive pictures and videos from the event
- Follow the invitational WoW Arena, Warcraft 3 and Starcraft tournaments

Come back here starting June 27th for our first news udpates about the event. In the meantime, you can register for the chat rooms by entering your email address on the right hand side of this page.

Thanks, IG_

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grotesquity
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Posted Jun 21, 2008
I would only hope that Blizzard would inform the fans that a Diablo game isn't in the works and let us go on with our lives! It is startling how little attention the Diablo world receives from Blizzard. I have noticed this even more when shuffling thru the Starcraft/Warcraft stuff to find any hints at Diablo III. Actually, just yesterday I was looking through the fan art and only 3 out of 500 pieces were Diablo-related! C'MON PEOPLE!

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Posted Jun 21, 2008
i googled error 403 and its importance.

check these explanations.
http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E403.html (their own personal explanation)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_403 (a more varied explanation from the awesome Wiki)

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Posted Jun 21, 2008
Hmm, I'm betting they are hard at work on the diablo3 domain, they dont want no sneaky badgers pokin their head in an snoopin bout, to say the least.

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Posted Jun 21, 2008
Quote from "grotesquity" »
I would only hope that Blizzard would inform the fans that a Diablo game isn't in the works and let us go on with our lives! It is startling how little attention the Diablo world receives from Blizzard. I have noticed this even more when shuffling thru the Starcraft/Warcraft stuff to find any hints at Diablo III. Actually, just yesterday I was looking through the fan art and only 3 out of 500 pieces were Diablo-related! C'MON PEOPLE!

Jetrall should post his art on there IMO. Go JETRALL!!

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Posted Jun 21, 2008
don't you guys think the admin around here are being very quiet about all this diablo3.com/.eu/.fr activity?

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Posted Jun 21, 2008
Not really imo. But the timing of blizzard taking over diablo3 combine with few other facts makes me believe d3 going to happen.

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Posted Jun 21, 2008
Quote from "Robiwan" »
don't you guys think the admin around here are being very quiet about all this diablo3.com/.eu/.fr activity?
definitely, i like it personally. i think its cool to know that we have actual connections to blizzard almost. We all know the admins know stuff that they for some reason need to keep secret. And to me secrets are good because eventually they will no longer be secret

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Posted Jun 22, 2008
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they are completely quiet about the important issues and comment just some "foggy images"???? http://www.diablofans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8534
i mean: come on md, thats really stupid not commenting what is really going on and just focusing on some minor speculations... really dumb.. anyway, he is probably prohibited to post here in this thread so he won't tell us anything about his hopes about wwi, nor will he oppose my statement given here..

....... decide for yourself, that's all there is into it

Maybe they are too busy to post or they really just don't have anything to say. I'm sure that they do not know more about WWI/D3 then we do (except for the domain transfer date). I know all of this waiting can make you anxious but, calm down!

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Posted Jun 22, 2008
Quote from "Robiwan" »
don't you guys think the admin around here are being very quiet about all this diablo3.com/.eu/.fr activity?

The admins are always quiet. Although, I dont know why MD didnt post the news about the WWI schedule and press release. He did announce it at blizzplanet.com. Maybe hes just busy.

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Posted Jun 22, 2008
Yeah, I believe he has a one way trip to hell to prepare.

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Posted Jun 23, 2008
well ppl is it just me or something is goin on with blizzard.com cose there a wallpaper before getting onto the site and to be honest it is lets say verry interesting :D:D

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Posted Jun 23, 2008
That definantly wasn't there earlier today! The title of it is just 'Ice1'. I wonder what it is for??

Can anyone make out what that circle is in the ice?

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Posted Jun 23, 2008
anyway, does it look like the worldstone crystals to you?

BINGO !!!!! exactly what i was thinking .. well those at blizzard are some really nasty bitchees :D:D but still the best gaming company out there :D:D

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Posted Jun 23, 2008
I inverted the colors in order to get a closer look at those red lines and they appear to be just random squiggley lines...i was hoping to find a clue..unless i am missing something.

It could be the worldstone. Thats what i thought right away as well.

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Posted Jun 23, 2008
well the image is called "icefield" if im not worng . That happened when the worldstone was destroyed an has frozen even the mightyest archangel warriors within heaven .... damn this is blowing my mind

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Posted Jun 23, 2008
damn when i invert colors the image goes red that and it looks like a damn WORLDSTONE to me ... oh my god !! He is back

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Posted Jun 23, 2008
lol im getting my hopes up again..i just hope blizz doesnt crush them like they always do.

I wonder how long its gonna take the mods to start speaking up about these things. They've been awful quiet as of late...

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Posted Jun 23, 2008
MD come on ... spit it out man we know that you know that we know that you know something so please ease our pain !!! :D:D The big red ugly guy is comming right ? :D:D

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Posted Jun 23, 2008
quoting my other post:

Been watching this forum for so long, but never really posted. And i just registered recently because i was afraid i couldn't see diablo news when the site was so slow lol.

Anyway got this from wow forums:

look at the page source "http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/favicon.ico"

232309

23rd letter in the alphabet = W
9th = I

WWI

something is going to be announced at WWI, looks like something for wrath or lich kind related
maybe a free WC3 campaign to fill in story gaps? that would be tight.

It's Diablo III its coming, It is not WOTLK, blizzard never teases a game they already announced, and TBC Beta never had a teaser for beta testers btw.

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Posted Jun 23, 2008
No that image with the red isnt edited its real. i got the same thing when u go and change the darkness and color contrast and stuff u get that with all the red lines. oh and might i also point out that if u look at the normal version of the picture and look really close at the ice (not so much the white lines that look like light) but that ice it self u can see things like a bridge that is broken in half and some small boats, ect.

and no im not just making shit up or seeing things it is really there. my buddy is actually the one who spotted them for me.

for me it was almost like one of those picture u look at for a long time and finally see like a background image then all of a sudden u see it every where lol.

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