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==Not 2010==
In Activision /Blizzard financial reports, two games are reported as being released this year: [[Starcraft II]] and [[World of Warcraft: Cataclysm]]. [[Diablo III]] is not even planned in an optimistic viewpoint (it could still have be planned for and delayed) for this year.
==Diablo IIID3: In the Next Few Years==
[[File:Release-date-bliz1.jpg|thumb|250px|D3 in "Next Few Years" [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-will-not-be-released-in-2010/ as of late 2009].]]
No one at Blizzard has ever yet given any hint of a release date, or schedule, or estimate, or anything of the kind for Diablo 3, other than to say it would not be out in 2010[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/rob-pardon-on-d3s-release-date/], and that as of late 2009 it was in their pipeline for the "next few years."[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-will-not-be-released-in-2010/]
==Blizzard Games Release Dates=== One commonly-cited piece of "evidence" is the fact that no Blizzard games have (yet) been released much more than three years after they were first announced. * ''Starcraft'': Announced spring 1996, released April 1998. (2 years later.)* ''Diablo 2'': Announced Sept 1997, released June 2000. (2 years, 9 months later.)* ''Warcraft 3'': Announced Sept 1999, released July 2002. (2 years, 10 months later.)* ''World of Warcraft'': September 2001, released Nov 2004. (3 years, 1 month later.)* ''Starcraft 2'': Announced May 2007, released July 2010 (3 years, 2 months later.) Diablo III was announced June 28, 2008. ===Diablo = Late June===Diablo I was released in January 1997, but all of the games in the series since then have shown an affinity for late June: * Diablo II release date: 29th of June 2000* Diablo II: Lord of Destruction release date: 29th of June 2001* Diablo III Announced at the WWI in Paris : 28th of June 2008 With this history in mind, many fans are hoping for a late June, 2011 release. ===Guess the Release Date===
If you're the betting type, there's a well-advanced release date prediction pool [http://forums.diii.net/showthread.php?t=700147 you can join in here].