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 This news could not be confirmed at the time, but it was very believable. The musician signed his real name, he had a Czech email address, and some searching through the Diablo II credits revealed that the music for that game was recorded with the same symphony in the same location.
-This rumor was confirmed more than five years later, when [[Matt Uelman]] gave an interview to Gamasutra[http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/5896/the_real_story_of_torchlights_.php Matt Uelmen interview] - GamaSutra, July 2010</ref> and talked about attending various Diablo 3 recording sessions with the Bratislava symphony in the Czech Republic. It's not known what became of that music, though it may have been used in other Blizzard games (such as World of Warcraft). Matt Uelmen was credited for contributing to the score of World of Warcraft and its first expansion.
+This rumor was confirmed more than five years later, when [[Matt Uelman]] gave an interview to Gamasutra <ref>[http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/5896/the_real_story_of_torchlights_.php Matt Uelmen interview] - GamaSutra, July 2010</ref> and talked about attending various Diablo 3 recording sessions with the Bratislava symphony in the Czech Republic. It's not known what became of that music, though it may have been used in other Blizzard games (such as World of Warcraft). Matt Uelmen was credited for contributing to the score of World of Warcraft and its first expansion.
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 ==Trademarks==
-'''Diablo II: Salvation''' was a title Blizzard registered in 2000, as a title for a movie or video game.  In 2001 Blizzard instigated legal action[http://diabloii.net/news/archivenews/archive1/arc9.shtml Blizzard sues New Line over "Diablo"] - Diabloii.net, 2001</ref> to force New Line Cinema to change the name of their upcoming Vin Diesel-staring action film from ''El Diablo.''  Blizzard was ultimately victorious in the suit, and the film's title changed to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266465/ ''A Man Apart''].
+'''Diablo II: Salvation''' was a title Blizzard registered in 2000, as a title for a movie or video game.  In 2001 Blizzard instigated legal action<ref>[http://diabloii.net/news/archivenews/archive1/arc9.shtml Blizzard sues New Line over "Diablo"] - Diabloii.net, 2001</ref> to force New Line Cinema to change the name of their upcoming Vin Diesel-staring action film from ''El Diablo.''  Blizzard was ultimately victorious in the suit, and the film's title changed to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266465/ ''A Man Apart''].
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 "At the same time, we want to convey that Blizzard's success has never been attributable to any one person or small group of individuals, and I am confident that we have the teams in place to continue creating some of the best games in the world."
-Blizzard does not believe that these resignations will <u>cause any significant delays or have long-term negative effects on the "Diablo®" series or other projects in development</u>.<blue>
+Blizzard does not believe that these resignations will <u>cause any significant delays or have long-term negative effects on the "Diablo®" series or other projects in development</u>.</blue>
 The last line of that press release was patently ridiculous, since less than two weeks later Blizzard announced<ref>[http://www.gamespot.com/news/6071481.html?tag=result;title;0 Blizzard Press Release] - Gamespot, July 2003</ref> a new Blizzard North leader, and slipped in mention that the second project they'd been working on was being shelved.
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 <blue>"Diablo ... well, it is obviously a very important franchise to us. And I would say, that as with Starcraft and Warcraft, we will certainly get back to it at some point. We are focusing currently on World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and content associated with World of Warcraft and Starcraft II. We do have some other things in development, and we are not ready to talking about it yet, but what I can say is that we do love that franchise. And its something that we will get to revisit at some point."</blue>
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 Like the leak from Hartgraves, there's no confirmation of this yet, and it's been more than two years since it was posted.  The plot concept, of the game being set in the Heavens, is logical. After all, players descended into the Hells in Act Four of Diablo II, the game world's mythology features numerous battles between the Angels and the Demons, and there's constant interference/assistance from the archangel Tyrael.  Most of the other predictions are pretty common sense too; of course the game is fully in 3D, and of course there will be expanded online play, guild housing, faction warfare, and so forth. Those features are all but mandatory in an online RPG these days.
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 ==2007: Project Hydra==
-Vague references to "Project Hydra" had been heard for years, but the best attested one came from an overhead conversation at the Austin GDC in September, 2007.[http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1042753/blizzard-projects]
+Vague references to "Project Hydra" had been heard for years, but the best attested one came from an overhead conversation at the Austin GDC in September, 2007. [http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1042753/blizzard-projects]
 ::Blizzard Employee 1: What are you working on?
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 ::Blizzard Employee 1: I am working on Hydra.
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 ==2005: D3 at Blizzcon Rumors==
 [[Image:D3-fakebox02.jpg|thumb|More fake box art.]]
-Wild rumors about the supposed content of Diablo III leak out shortly before the first Blizzcon in October 2005. See [[#Diablo_III_Takes_Place_in_Heaven|the Rumor Mill section of this page]] for full details. As of April 2008 These rumors remain unconfirmed and undenied. The source of the rumors was correct about some details of ''World of Warcraft ''and ''Starcraft II'', but also claimed that ''Diablo III'' would debut at Blizzcon in 2005; a prediction that is now 2.5 years off. And counting.
+Wild rumors about the supposed content of Diablo III leak out shortly before the first Blizzcon in October 2005. See [[#Diablo_III_Takes_Place_in_Heaven|the Rumor Mill section of this page]] for full details. As of April 2008 These rumors remain unconfirmed and undenied. The source of the rumors was correct about some details of ''World of Warcraft ''and ''Starcraft II'', but also claimed that ''Diablo III'' would debut at Blizzcon in 2005; a prediction that failed utterly.
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-[[Image:D3-title.jpg|thumb|300px|Diablo III title image.]]On June 28, 2008, [http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/080628.html Blizzard officially announced] ''Diablo III'', in Paris, at their World Wide Invitational exhibition. Prior to that announcement, ''Diablo III'' had existed only in rumors -- more than eight years of rumors that were so powerful the hypothetical game had taken on an almost mythical status. While this was the first official acknowledgment of the game, careful observers were in near-unanimous agreement that development of ''Diablo III'' had begun at Blizzard north in the early 2000s, and continued at Blizzard Irvine following the closing of Blizzard North in late 2005.
+[[Image:D3-title.jpg|thumb|300px|Diablo III title image.]]On June 28, 2008, [http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/080628.html Blizzard officially announced] ''Diablo III'', in Paris, at their World Wide Invitational exhibition. Prior to that announcement, ''Diablo III'' had existed only in rumors -- more than eight years of rumors that were so powerful the hypothetical game had taken on an almost mythical status. While this was the first official acknowledgment of the game, careful observers were in near-unanimous agreement that development of ''Diablo III'' had begun at [[Blizzard North]] in the early 2000s, and continued at Blizzard Irvine following the closing of Blizzard North in late 2005.
 Evidence for this hinged not on any one point of overwhelming evidence, but was instead built from a great deal of circumstantial evidence and leaked tidbits. Those strands of evidence were compiled on this page, which was updated until shortly before the official announcement, but is now retired, its purpose fulfilled.
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 The next big rumor about ''Diablo III'' turned up about a year later. As the tale goes, a Blizzard employee named Chris Hartgraves left the company in late 2005, and promptly spilled all he knew about ongoing projects at Blizzard. In an email posted on a World of Warcraft fansite forum<sup> [[#References|1]]</sup> on October 28, 2005, Chris was quoted saying the following about ''Diablo III'':
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-It is about Diablo 3. Last week they had a thing called "Show N Tell" which they have every 6 months to all the full time employees - Anyways Diablo 3 takes place in heaven. Hell is trying to take it over and it is AWESOME looking ... I magine the brightness of heaven being taken over by the darkness of hell ... Imagine WoW but in a Diablo world in amount of size and playability ... Also, guild housing is available in this game for those of you who know about it. They should have a gameplay demo to show at BlizzCon.
+It is about Diablo 3. Last week they had a thing called "Show N Tell" which they have every 6 months to all the full time employees - Anyways Diablo 3 takes place in heaven. Hell is trying to take it over and it is AWESOME looking ... Imagine the brightness of heaven being taken over by the darkness of hell ... Imagine WoW but in a Diablo world in amount of size and playability ... Also, guild housing is available in this game for those of you who know about it. They should have a gameplay demo to show at BlizzCon.
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 There was no way to confirm this account of ''Diablo III'', since, contrary to Hartgraves' prediction, the game did not debut at the 2005 [[BlizzCon]], and still hadn't made an appearance, more than 2.5 years later. That fact doesn't do much to argue for Hartgraves' claims, and they would be forgotten by now if not for the fact that he also said ''Starcraft II'' was under production long before it was officially announced. He also made several predictions about ''World of Warcraft'' in the same email, and most of them turned out to be accurate.