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Pretty darn sure, I’d say. It’s hard to say what’s keeping Blizzard so quiet on Diablo III, but it’s not hard to guess. My mind roams back to endless hours spent with the Diablo II designer diary at Gamespot.com (which seems now, sadly, to have had all its multimedia ripped away) as I waited, breathless, for the release of Diablo II, a game that, while far from perfect, still stands as one of my favorite games you can play natively on a home computer. Taking the long time we waited for Diablo II into account, you can imagine that Blizzard doesn’t want us stomping impatiently at the door, fifty-dollar-bills in hand, waiting to buy their game while they keep saying it will be out when it’s done. Maybe we’ll see something at next year’s BlizzCon, and then the game will show up a few months later?

A lack of news hasn’t prevented Diablo III from being in the news, though. There’s Diablo 3 News Community, whose most recent news is that there is no news from this year’s BlizzCon. There’s the Diablo Watch at Maxfreak, which links to an August interview at IGN where a Blizzard rep (at BlizzCon) says they’re busy with World of Warcraft… you get the idea.

It’s amazing the hum that builds under Blizzard’s software, even in the absence of information. Perhaps even moreso in the absence of information. It’s clear that the excitement for StarCraft 2 predated the announcement of the game by a wide margin, and Diablo III is following suit.