It’s not a sequel, expansion, or that rumored next-gen MMO
They wouldn't unveil something THAT big at PAX, they'd wait until Blizzcon to showcase their newest, highly anticipated IP.
As much as I'd like to see Blizzard All Stars, they've been advertising the same positions for the team for over a year now. Any recent developments would have been undertaken by the SC2 team and they've had their hands full with HOTS, so I dunno. Curious.
Clutching at straws here, but there was a hotsale on THQ games and concepts - perhaps Blizzard is going to revitalise some of the great games produced by THQ? Guess we will have to wait and see!
I asked a Blizzard representative if the invite was to see and play Diablo 3, and I was told this is something different.
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“As mentioned in the invite, this is a little something, different from what we’ve previously announced or talked about, and not a sequel, etc,” I was told. I also confirmed that Diablo 3 will be at PAX East, but again, this is something different.
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Blizzard announced last year they were developing a social gaming platform called Activate (think cross between Steam & Zynga). My guess is that it's finally ready.
"Some of the features available to developers with the Activate platform are friends lists, leader boards, achievements, invites, and cloud storage to allow players to access their saved games on multiple devices. Players will be able to log in from their Facebook accounts, and an Activate account will be required to utilize the online modes in all supported games."
Blizzard announced last year they were developing a social gaming platform called Activate (think cross between Steam & Zynga). My guess is that it's finally ready.
"Some of the features available to developers with the Activate platform are friends lists, leader boards, achievements, invites, and cloud storage to allow players to access their saved games on multiple devices. Players will be able to log in from their Facebook accounts, and an Activate account will be required to utilize the online modes in all supported games."
The only problem with this is, as the name implies it seems to be shared between Activision and Blizzard so why would Blizzard itself by hyping it, and sending invites to MMO press. Also it's apparently already launched as of the end of last year as the back end for some Activision mobile games, AND was already announced.
Last edited by Dingobloo; Fri, 22nd-Mar-2013 at 10:25 AM.
Also that chart is 'as of 2010' - I heard Activision pushed them to release things early
Isn't Blizzard owned by Activision?...
Technically "Activision Blizzard" is a holding company that has a majortiy stock in both Activision and Blizzard.
My point was more if this was them announcing their joint steam/origin/social network thing that would be for both Blizzard games and Activision games you would think that would be handled by Activision and it's PR as the publisher side, not by Blizzard and it's PR, especially given that it's called Activate which is a very Activision associated name.
If Activision had been pushing things to be released early they've done a pretty poor job of it thus far as almost everything on there has slipped by a year.
Last edited by Dingobloo; Fri, 22nd-Mar-2013 at 10:56 AM.
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