Blizzard acquires Diablo3.com, nothing to see (yet)

by James Ransom-Wiley on May 1st 2008 11:45AM

Several weeks ago, Diablo3.com, an independent fansite, posted a provocative countdown set to end today, May 1st. The site teased that today would be the day that "half the web" links to the domain ... well, let us save you the click. Of the two potential outcomes posed by WoW Insider, we get the far less interesting one: Blizzard has acquired the Diablo3.com domain from Roger Barr (aka "Mockery") who is transitioning his fansite to a new domain, more appropriately dubbed, Diablofans.com.

Currently, Diablo3.com redirects to Diablofans.com, but eventually it will redirect to Blizzard.com, and after that...? Mr. Mockery notes that Blizzard has reminded him that the acquisition of the domain is not an official announcement of Diablo III, but Mockery can't help but speculate that "this is a confirmation of sorts that they're working on the next Diablo game." True that.

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Tags: blizzard, diablo, diablo-3, diablo-iii, PC

Reader Comments (52)

The thing about Blizzard is you don't really care about seeing new IPs from them simply because you've grown so attached to the lore of Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft that you'll buy any of the sequels. Also we all know of Blizzard's infamous yet appreciated It'll be released when it's ready policy which hellgate should have followed to. So any sequel will be a good enough sequel to make you forget that it's a remake of an old title with a new number next to it.