Mysterious background, Diablo 3 becoming more real!

Splash page day 1(ice1)

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ice2

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Blizzard.com and Battle.net have had a new Splash screen 2 days in a row now, check out the latest splash screen updated today!

Also there is this image that was found in the CSS
Blizzard's CSS file: http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/master.css


sources:
sc2pod

2nd graphic revealed!


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Our affiliates/friends at sc2pod have created this nice grid layout for the mysterious purple monster we're hunting down...



A sc2pod reader put this graphic together, his interpretation of the hidden purple monster:


From sc2pod:
"Another confirmation is the new rune in the splash screen, it looks a lot like the Diablo rune Hel:"




Runes graphic created by sclegacy:





D3 Rumor Rundown:

More hints at this being a Diablo announcement of some sort:

* Diablo3.com is now down
(no longer pointing to diablofans.com), only sites effected are Blizzard and Bnet. Starcraft2 and worldofwarcraft.com are normal

* Diablo3 forums does not redirect
Another clue found! Thx to my friend at sixen.org

This is the link that a future Diablo 3 forum should exists:
http://www.battle.net/forums/board.aspx?ForumName=d3-general

Now if you click that it will take you to a page with "forums down" if you type in any other incorrect forum link it will take you to the default front page of the Battle.net forums.

Try this with a 2 added at the end of general:
http://www.battle.net/forums/board.aspx?ForumName=d3-general2

* The Diablo II no-CD patch
Just released...

* PC Gamer hints at D3 in August issue
http://www.blizzplanet.com/?action=news&id=2382

* An edit was on Xfire news
http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_wwi08/

The following was edited:

Follow the opening ceremony and discover what new game will be announcedin our chat rooms together with hundreds of other Blizzard fans

 

to this:

Follow the opening ceremony in our live chat rooms together with hundreds of other Blizzard fans

 

This hints at a new game, not WoTLK (also we already know about WoTLK)

 

 

*  The Diablo Code & Birthday

From diablofans.com

(source http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=9138.150)

Another interesting fact is the URL: http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/ice1.jpg

Why 232309? If we assume that the numbers correspond to the letters in the alphabet we get 232309=WWI ... ring a bell? World Wide Invitational
23 = W
23 = W
09 = I
Anyway the "hidden" picture is called 04.jpg. (http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/04.jpg)
My guess is that tomorrow we'll see a picture called 09.jpg, then on wednesday 01.jpg ....

Today is 04.jpg = D
if Tomorrow will be 09.jpg = I (if its not, maybe not diablo at all )
Wednesday will be 01.jpg = A
Thursday will be 02.jpg = B
Friday will be 12.jpg = L
Saturday will be 15.jpg = O (June 28 WWI 1st Day)
Sunday will be 3.jpg = 3 or three.jpg or whichever. = (June 29 WII 2nd Day, and B-day of Diablo)

 

 

*  Hydra Concept Art coming...

Professional artist Peter Lee has done a lot of work for Blizzard, Blizzard has had a secret project named Hydra. Now check out this update on his gallery:

http://www.peterconcept.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=32

 

Note he has StarCraft & Warcraft and now Hydra was added, or more accurately "Hydra: Coming Soon" was added. This is another hint at a new non-Warcraft based game.

 

www.peterconcept.com his homepage also says under contruction till 6-28, the first day of the Paris World Wide invitational.