Blizzard Teasing Diablo 3 Splash Art?

It's blue, it's crystalline, it looks like someone cracked the inside of a geode with a fluorescent lamp. Am I seeing things? Is that a face peeking out of the left side of the drawing with an inward spiral bored into the forehead? Faint reddish quasi-runic lines just below the ice-like veneer?

The source code for the page refers to the picture as "icefield," suggesting Blizzard may be planning to "melt" away sections of the splash over coming days.

See the full-sized picture for yourself. It's what you hit when you type www.blizzard.com into a browser, and it's up mere days before the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational, where StarCraft 2 was announced last year. This year, the rumor mill's been hard at the business of proclaiming the imminent arrival of Diablo 3.

I don't know. The already announced WoW expansion pack Wrath of the Lich King seems more likely. Hit that link and check out the ice design on the Lich King's sword.

Update: Looks like an eagle-eyed reader figured it out. Well probably, anyway. You know, it could always be some sort of Diablo/World of Warcraft crossover. How incredibly weird/cool/offensive/amazing would that be?

Comments

I guess the success Blizzard has with WoW means I don't have to worry about D3 coming out for a few years... well, there's always Fallout 3 to look forwards to.

nmanguy

June 24, 2008

12:17 AM PT

is it me or since I first saw the teaser, has the image gotten brighter in middle? hmmm...

also try photoshop filters, ie. render difference clouds and others.. inverse etc... to see runes

mobiusman

June 24, 2008

8:04 AM PT

oh yess, when you try to invert image zoom in, after looking IN the ice.. you can see what apears to be runes scrawled throught the ice...

mobiusman

June 24, 2008

8:11 AM PT