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Splash Screen Updated1 year 1 week ago
by shadowie
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Update: Click here for an explanation of the riddle and why it is Diablo 3.
Update 2: Mr Purple Explained
Update 3: Wednesday Splash Image

Blizzard has updated the splash screen with a new ice image, to me it looks like something is behind the ice getting brighter ready to burst through. A new hidden image has also been revealed and it's called 15.jpg! According to the theory 15 equals O, then we have D _ _ _ _ O, it must be Diablo 3! Just that they're revealed in a different order, perhaps in response to the quick cracking of the riddle.

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15.jpg


It's a different size than the last, I've tried stitching them together:



If Mr Purple is in portrait the letters would not be in order, however the shade seem to fit better that way. Click here to view as portrait.

Another confirmation is the new rune in the splash screen, it looks a lot like the Diablo rune Hel:

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The fact that Blizzard is calling the image 15.jpg is confirmation enough imo, maybe they won't be ordered DIABLO, but that doesn't really matter. It's also important to note that the completed image of Mr Purple might very well be of a purple walrus with no relation to D3 at all, the significant part is the naming of the images. The countdown is still on!

46 comments

1 year 1 week ago

#1 fractalbit Greece(gr)

 
If they posted 09 today we could see the face monster tomorrow (01.jpg). They dont want this to be revealed so early so istead they reveal the image diagonally.

I am 100% sure that it will go like that:

Wensdey: 09.jpg
Thursday: 12.jpg
Friday: 02.jpg
Saturday: 01.jpg - Diablo 3 announced!

It' s DIABLO 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 year 1 week ago

#2 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
That's clever, probably the reason yeah :)
1 year 1 week ago

#3 blizzemployee Aland Islands(ax)

 
Ladies and gentleman, I have decoded the hidden image!
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1 year 1 week ago

#4 Bertis Australia(au)

 
ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 year 1 week ago

#5 Bertis Australia(au)

 
IT'S COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 year 1 week ago

#6 fractalbit Greece(gr)

 
Hmmm, it seems i am wrong as the new image matches better in the middle right position. Check here: http://www.blizzplanet.com/content/diab ... -image.jpg

So maybe tomorrow we will get the bottom left image? Let's wait and see...
1 year 1 week ago

#7 Bertis Australia(au)

 
WHO CARES!!!! BLIZZEMPLOYEE HAS DECODED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT'S COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 year 1 week ago

#8 MasterBoo Israel(il)

 
Bertis, calm downed. It's photoshoped from this:
http://www.blizzforums.com/showthread.p ... 15&page=11
1 year 1 week ago

#9 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
Yeah it's just a good photoshop :)

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1 year 1 week ago

#10 Bertis Australia(au)

 
Gah that just crushed my spirits!

That is some insanely good photoshop work though.
1 year 1 week ago

#11 nicodemus Poland(pl)

 
Splash screen is probably portal from Diablo.
EDIT:
Note that, the monster image might look like this:
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Then letters order would be correct.
1 year 1 week ago

#12 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
Yeah that's a possibility, but the shade matches very nicely when they're next to eachother.
1 year 1 week ago

#13 PKZeppelin Sweden(se)

 
Someone in Blizzard really likes Sudoku =D
1 year 1 week ago

#14 Johnnyxp64 Greece(gr)

 
i totalyy agree with my fellow Greek friend fractalbit
they are mixing up the order, dont get too exited about the specific "decoded" image,
actually we dont care if it looks like this or not, its face will be revealed last,
and the only important is that d3 is comming not a fool mmo, and this time its gona rock, omg, image the visual and textures and shadows in the latest direct3d!

i hope blizzard will not keep it undeconstruction that many years as they done with d2 and 3dfx was bought by nvidia, and d2 engine was patched in a harry to support and d3d exept glide back then.

"Hell Gate" Paris :twisted:
1 year 1 week ago

#15 powerpyc China(cn)

 
fractalbit wrote:If they posted 09 today we could see the face monster tomorrow (01.jpg). They dont want this to be revealed so early so istead they reveal the image diagonally.

I am 100% sure that it will go like that:

Wensdey: 09.jpg
Thursday: 12.jpg
Friday: 02.jpg
Saturday: 01.jpg - Diablo 3 announced!

It' s DIABLO 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


ehh, how do u get such a sequence? :shock: that's really amazing. does the number of the pics correspond to sth??? just curious- -
anyway, decoding is unbelievable, and also the guy who made the ps-ed purple DIABLO
1 year 1 week ago

#16 powerpyc China(cn)

 
btw: guys, notice the little rune in the left of the pic, it looks like rune shael :twisted:

some say it's like the rune in Lich King Sword, i'd rather say this is coincidence 'cause maybe when blizzard makes the Lich King Sword, they somehow used the word they used in diablo~~ :twisted:
1 year 1 week ago

#17 zimp Hungary(hu)

 
powerpyc: if its a rune, i think its a 'sol' but they posted before that it more looks like one of the runes on frostmourne
1 year 1 week ago

#18 powerpyc China(cn)

 
ehh, i didn't notice the thing about , srry~ but look at here
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and here
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ps:srry that i cannot figure out how to upload jpg files on this forum so i used some url links:(
pps: no matter what it is, i'm happy as long as it's sth from diablo, not wow :twisted: at least for now
btw: i never played wow
1 year 1 week ago

#19 Davve Sweden(se)

 
No, we shoudln't be too excited about it, it might not be diablo, but I for one think/hope it is. To the ones saying it's just a coincidence with the letters/numbers, the employees at Blizzard are known to be tricksters/pranksters and to hide "secret" messages in their work.

But also, the other things make it fit, Blizzad buying diablo3.com. A few might know that blizzard sell fan-lore books about their games. Just as they said they'd make SC2 they also released new lore books two out thus far (read em). So what has this to do with D3? Now think about the new trilogy of Diablo books, any special reason to write books in the diablo universe or is it just another coincidence? ^_^
1 year 1 week ago

#20 powerpyc China(cn)

 
agree, especially that some staff from blizzard told some media that thier current project are SC2 and WOW and they do not have new projects at least for now. but, what those words are just another trick? jun. 28 :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
1 year 1 week ago

#21 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
Actually it's well known they're working on a third game, Project Hydra. They've been hiring people for a next-gen MMO for a while now, so my bet is D3 will be some kind of MMO, maybe World of Diablo. :shock: Although with some twist to set it apart from WoW.

Anyhow it's 100% clear imho that the announcement at WWI will be Diablo-related, but what kind of diablo game is another question.
1 year 1 week ago

#22 powerpyc China(cn)

 
shadowie wrote:
Anyhow it's 100% clear imho that the announcement at WWI will be Diablo-related, but what kind of diablo game is another question.


yeah, that's the point. what kind of diablo game -_- hope i can still play single 'cause online game just costs too much time :shock:
1 year 1 week ago

#23 nzoul Germany(de)

 
there must be a hint behind the runes in the splash screen.
I think there will appear an Ist-Rune tomorrow.
1 year 1 week ago

#24 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
I made an explanation for the riddle and why it's Diablo 3:
http://www.sc2pod.com/news/Countdown_to_Diablo_3/

That includes the story behind the runes.
1 year 1 week ago

#25 nzoul Germany(de)

 
You said this are runes but not why exactly THAT ones. I dont think they just picked some runes randomly. That would be a bit boring, wouldn't it?
Sheal and Hex are number 13 and 15. But this numbers dont make any sence as a date or a letters (M and O). If you count from Zod downwards you get 21 and 19 (U,S). Thats not really better.

Does anyone else have an idea?
1 year 1 week ago

#26 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
I edited the page 5 minutes ago, update it and you'll see the explanation: http://www.sc2pod.com/news/Countdown_to_Diablo_3/
1 year 1 week ago

#27 nzoul Germany(de)

 
oh, sorry i didnt read the Nef-Part.
But this is Shael... not Nef, im pretty sure.
edit: but 4 would be great with 04.jpg :D .

lets see what happens tomorrow
1 year 1 week ago

#28 Xabora United States(us)

 
Newly Registered to add this.
I got it!


Purple Walrus is the Image.
That which relates to this guy: Michael Dashow


Michael Dashow did a SHITLOAD of Modeling, Animations, Texturing, Rigging, Backgrounds, Promos, Voices and whatnot.
http://www.michaeldashow.com/games/zoom_diablo.html
http://michaeldashow.com/diablo.html


Even though he does not work with Blizzard now (AFAIK), this might be a nod to him.

REF:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread. ... 797&page=9
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... 7518&sid=1
1 year 1 week ago

#29 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
Awesome find Xabora! Posting in a sec.
1 year 1 week ago

#30 tekhammer New Zealand(nz)

 
well, to support your item #4, the diablo3.com website is now owned by Blizzard (if it wasn't before) and was last updated on Jun 17. Updates are usually change of ownership, details, or DNS servers. And they haven't changed DNS servers because all their other diablo domains haven't been touched recently.

for the record, diablo4.com is currently owned by a dude called Christian Engels in Germany.

here's diablo3.com's details:

Registrant:
Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment
P.O. Box 18979
Irvine, California 92623
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: DIABLO3.COM
Created on: 01-Dec-98
Expires on: 30-Nov-10
Last Updated on: 17-Jun-08

Administrative Contact:
Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment domainnameadmin-us@blizzard.com
P.O. Box 18979
Irvine, California 92623
United States
9499551382 Fax --

Technical Contact:
Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment domainnametech@blizzard.com
P.O. Box 18979
Irvine, California 92623
United States
9499551382 Fax --

Domain servers in listed order:
NS-WEST.CERF.NET
NS-EAST.CERF.NET
1 year 1 week ago

#31 rodneycrew Australia(au)

 
Hi Guys...

I did some snooping my self.. and this is what I come up with.. Sorry if some one alse all ready found this i didnt see any posts with it in it.

If you view the source code for the new splash page you get this..
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Now we can see what the style sheet they are using is called..
and if you open the style sheet you can see that the two images of the pirple monster have names to go with them.

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04.jpg = tundra
15.jpg = cavern ( both name are places where Abominable's are found in D2LOD)

And it looks a bit like one maybe??
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EDIT: O I see this had been covered in another topic on the froums :( o well
1 year 1 week ago

#32 DooM Poland(pl)

 
Guys, I really digg your tricky thinking, can't wait for D3 as well.

Anyway, I registered just to post my small work on the splash, making the ice already broken.

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1 year 1 week ago

#33 lonewulf South Africa(za)

 
The Next Blizz splash screen is released.

http://www.blizzard.com/splash.html
1 year 1 week ago

#34 powerpyc China(cn)

 
well, seems the new "rune" doesn't look like a rune from diablo 2 :shock: what is blizzard thinking -_- gosh -_- looks like the icon for protoss x_x
1 year 1 week ago

#35 Bertis Australia(au)

 
Hmm the 3rd symbol doesn't match a Mal Rune (23).
1 year 1 week ago

#36 powerpyc China(cn)

 
1 year 1 week ago

#37 Gallean Romania(ro)

 
Actualy...the first discovered Rune is from Frostmourne (WoW), the second is the Hel Rune (Diablo) and the third is the Protoss Emblem (Starcraft). But i stil wander what's up with Mr.Purple :)
1 year 1 week ago

#38 powerpyc China(cn)

 
Gallean wrote:Actualy...the first discovered Rune is from Frostmourne (WoW), the second is the Hel Rune (Diablo) and the third is the Protoss Emblem (Starcraft). But i stil wander what's up with Mr.Purple :)


my guess is that Mr.Purple does know sth. however, because of the contracts, he/she cannot tell us or give us those crucial pics. thus, he tries to give us some hints, just like blizzard :shock:
1 year 1 week ago

#39 elderamy Portugal(pt)

 
So the letters were DOW... or in reverse order WOD...

Does [W]orld [O]f [D]iablo sounds so bad??

Is it just me who is actually thinking on this? Because, well its a NEXT GEN MMO and we know it...
1 year 1 week ago

#40 DooM Poland(pl)

 
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LOL.
1 year 1 week ago

#41 Gallean Romania(ro)

 
Best thing i've seen so far :D :worship:
1 year 1 week ago

#42 sharkyzor United States(us)

 
just a shot in the dark but the runes seemed to have moved since i last looked. the one on the upper left isn't there anymore, could they be changing like a clock or a countdown maybe?
1 year 1 week ago

#43 sharkyzor United States(us)

 
clock maybe still but they aren't moving i found the 3rd rune.
1 year 6 days ago

#44 powerpyc China(cn)

 
wth :shock: :x they didn't put a new pic on today?!
1 year 6 days ago

#45 Lomendil France(fr)

 
Yes they did, check the master.css :

http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/ice4.jpg

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1 year 6 days ago

#46 powerpyc China(cn)

 
Lomendil wrote:Yes they did, check the master.css :

http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/ice4.jpg

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ahhh, i c, thx :roll: looks like it will be an evil purple penguin-_-~ ~

btw: have an awesome trip shadowie ;)
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