[syfChadMann]

Ahhh.. I see your point Dingo.. I'd say there are more hype fends following the twitter feeds etc of Blizzard exec's than of Activision, thus the info pre-leak from Blizzard. Could very well be a joint launch at PAX..

Exciting to see what they do tho.. :S

[UHF]

Hmm you may be right Re: Activate.

some key words hinted

• "it's something we're excited for you to get your hands on."
• "PAX East next week and I'm still not ready with the announcement for our next game... work work work"
• "this is a little something, different from what we’ve previously announced or talked about..."

I don't know if they are throwing up red herrings or not! There are references to Diablo, Warcraft & Starcraft around this release, so maybe it is All-stars after all. If it's not All-stars, then I'll put my money on the mobile/social platform.

[rezyn8]

After talking to the Blizzard ANZ reps after the HotS Launch in Melbourne, I am pretty sure it will be Blizzard All Stars. There were some hints in the D3 for Playstation announcement a while back. Was hoping for Ghost but that is vapour ware now.

They also said that the announcement will relate to the eSports focus Blizzard has which bodes well. So again it points at BAS, specially when you look at the references to the Blizzard worlds.

On another note, they will be at PAX Aus but not with their own booth at this stage.

[Dingobloo]

Other stuff to keep in mind is that Activision Bizzard, as a publicly traded company has a duty to their share holders to tell them wtf is going on especially with regards to stuff that might affect their dividend, if they're announcing something it's unlikely to be something they'll be releasing immediately or something huge. (though Q2 of 2013 finishes at the end of this month)

The only things in their last quarter conference call for upcoming projects were Titan and AllStars.

Some more speculation:

WoW Trading Card Game Expansion, PAX seems a more appropriate venue than Blizzcon.

Maybe not the release of All-stars but maybe beta? Someone found this image on BNET not too long ago:

https://eu.battle.net/account/static...space/dota.png

I guess one count against it being All Stars related is that Rob Pardo's going to be there, now Pardo has a ton of involvement with a bunch of different things at Blizzard given that he's basically head of their design side but more recently he's been associated with their MMO's not the Diablo/SC2 side.

[Dox]

Originally Posted by @StarCraft

What yet lay behind this onyx veil? #PaxEast opens in just 1 more hour! Stay tuned…

30 minutes to go...

[UHF]

[UHF]

oh shit?!

[Dingobloo]

Originally Posted by UHF

oh shit?!

Warcraft 4: Highway to the dangerzone. I was on board until the second pic.

[Dox]

Quick Comments

ToR.Arnor:

sweet!

[x5_Potter]

Blizzard to announce take-over of My Little Pony franchise?!?!?!?!?

Quick Comments

syfSoundwave:

Rainbow Flash vs Twilight Storkle

[BAD.BiGbiRd]

Blizzard don't you tease me with wc4 don't you ******* dare

[syfSoundwave]

Even if they did make WCIV, what's the point T_T

Blizzard DESTROYED the lore of Warcraft with WoW, and while I had massive amount of fun playing WoW, I can never really forgive it for turning amazing and memorable characters like Kael'thas and Illidan into random raid bosses to kill.

******* Anub'arak T_T

[Dox]

[MezjE]

AND THE NEW THING IS...


A card game!

Well I am both sad and disappointed... Sounds like every card game ever apart from the fact you pay for cards you don't even get to touch. It also seems to be far too simple among a myriad of other things.

EDIT: Dox too fast

[Bash]

If anyone else is keen remember to go and change your "Beta profile settings" on battle.net


This could be cute as hell- it could also be the worst thing since D3 launch, hoping its the former- depends how $$ hungry they are, and how its balanced.

This seems really .."not blizzard" - but given the goals set out by this new dev team "15 devs, faster dev cycles" its a cute idea.

[Maynarde]

Alright! Closing this one; it's Hearthstone