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Blizzard trademarks "The Dark Below"

World of Warcraft and Diablo developer files new trademark application a week ahead of "special announcement" for Gamescom.

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Blizzard Entertainment has filed a trademark application for "The Dark Below" one week before Gamescom, where the company has promised a "special announcement."

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The trademark (via Massively) does not give any further detail regarding what The Dark Below may pertain to and a company representative was not immediately available to comment.

A Gamescom invitation sent to media last month said, "We're making a special announcement that's sure to capture the attention of the Heavens, Burning Hells, and all the shadowed places that lie between."

During an earnings call earlier this month, Blizzard Entertainment president and cofounder Mike Morhaime said the company's Gamescom announcement would be related to Diablo.

The event itself will take place on the first day of Gamescom, August 21, at 11:30 a.m. local time. Gamescom takes place August 21-25 in Cologne, Germany.

GameSpot will be on-hand at the event.

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D3 expansion most likely.

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@tommynj They won't release expansion until D3 is well established on console, this gen and next

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@NTenseify @tommynj bear in mind that just cause they announce it doesn't mean its coming out shortly. By the time its ready to go the console version will most likely have been public close to a year. So that will open it up to have the expansion released for both console and PC ideally.

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@NTenseify @tommynj You all must not know how to read.....

"
Blizzard Entertainment president and cofounder Mike Morhaime said the company's Gamescom announcement would be related to Diablo."

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@NTenseify @LordOfTragedy even if its a diablo 3 exp announcement it will still take 2-3 years to release..so plenty of time for d3 to be established on console this gen and next...

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@LordOfTragedy You musn't be familiar with Blizzard and release dates...

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A possible mate for The Lurker Below? :P

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No WOW is coming to Next Gen consoles!!!!!

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Maybe this is the expansion that will make D3 not suck...I won't hold my breath.

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@kellian1 Expanding shit just makes it bigger.

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@kellian1 That's fundamentally impossible to accomplish. Diablo 3's many flaws lie at the very core of its being. There is no way to change them without completely remaking the game. Cough, procedurally generated random dungeons, cough. Remember how they are what made Diablo 2 the best game ever, and how theyre not in Diablo 3 AT ALL. Or the auction house, which is removed in the playstation version. Or real money. Or how few moves you had and it made the game being a PC game pointless. There is no redemption for Diablo 3.

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@kellian1 Yeah I think this is a great move for blizzard, diablo 3 always felt like it should be a console game rather than a PC game.

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@Poidad @kellian1 Disagree, but Diablo was on Playstation if I'm not mistaken.

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@Morgueson @Grenadeh @LordOfTragedy @Poidad @kellian1 Morgueson, STFU and get your nose out of Blizzard's poop-chute. You've been fanboying all fucking night.

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@Grenadeh @LordOfTragedy @Poidad @kellian1 "Diablo 3 is almost universally agreed to be a terrible game" Hey everyone! Diablo 3 is a bad game! Stop playing it!

You sounded like this.

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@LordOfTragedy @Poidad @kellian1 It was ported to PSX after release on PC. Not made for PSX, ported. And if you disagree, you're wrong, Diablo 3 is almost universally agreed to be a terrible game, a terrible Diablo game, plagued by multiple design flaws, and something that should have been released on console and console only.

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So the real question is, is this about the an expansion, or an announcement about coming to PS4 at launch?

Blizzard did reveal the console version at the PS4 reveal. There's been no "official word" one way or the other about next-gen versions other than it will be later. So while I do know an expansion is coming, who's to say they announce it now? It really could PS4 announcement just as easily as the expansion announcement. Why else would they register the trademark so close to gamescom? Just to spoil the surprise? I think maybe not.

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Could this finally be the Murloc expansion!?!?

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Underground expansion for WoW?

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it's an expansion with 6 hours of content but there is a paragon-like thing which requires you to play same content 400 times.

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@galeta typically almost all video games nowadays..

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D3 sucks donkey chode, the expansion will only be a breath mint to mask the stench.

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Eh, it's been a few years since the last WoW expansion, most likely just that. Running out of space in Azeroth et al, so they need to make a subterranean expansion with a new strangely zerglike race.

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@Twilightman42 thats what blizzcon is for.. WoW xpac reveal

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@Twilightman42

Mist of Pandaria came out less than a year ago... unless of course you're saying it wasn't worthy of the "expansion" title.

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@matticles @Twilightman42 If Mists wasn't then Cataclysm sure as **** wasn't. Cataclysm was literally nothing but them PROFITING off of the fact that they left a massive portion of the game world unfinished and then sold us a beta test for 7 years. That sure as hell doesn't qualify as an expansion, I'd call that the actual game since they've completely changed everything 15 times over since day 1.

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Came out September last year, they tend to announce things a year in advance so it would be about 2 years between expansions.

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@Twilightman42 you said it's been a few years since the last expansion. then you said it came out last year in september, so it hasn't even been a year yet. how do you not know what he's talking about, are you on acid?

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@Twilightman42 Yes you do.


And no, it's not the next WoW Xpack, it's obvious it's a D3 Xpack. There's some "clues" in the article that require a severe lack of chromosomes to miss.

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I honestly have no idea what you are talking about.

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@Twilightman42 lol nice try at redeeming your epic fail. You didn't though.

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They will release Diablo 4 before the multiplayer for Diablo 3

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@cerealzateu Uh you know Diablo 3 had multiplayer since launch, right. Not that you could play the game on launch.

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w8 will it have new loot that we won't see except on the robbery house I mean auction house

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Diablo 3 DLC.

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@DarkSaber2k expansion pack you noobcake

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@emperiox @DarkSaber2k As if they'll make enough effort for it to qualify as an expansion. They can't even release full games anymore.

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@DarkSaber2k @emperiox Exhibit A, B, and C: Starcraft 2. Let's make three separate full-retail-price games, one for each campaign, but include a different version of the multiplayer in each one, and that way we can make 3x the profit off of each game when its predecessor was AN ENTIRE PACKAGE.

At least with WC3 and TFT, there was a logical reason to release the expansion. Night Elves, and Undead, not to mention the additional campaigns.

SC2 doesn't even have shame. What's that? This is simply a graphical update for a game over a decade old that shipped with all three factions on the disc? Nah nah nah.

Sidenote I don't remember what Brood War actually did so maybe I'm wrong.

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"The Dark Below" has this generic, uninspired sound to it.

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@bouchart Like a low budget horror movie that takes itself too seriously.

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@snugglebear @bouchart lol

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Oh, wait. "Thank god it isn't the Duck Below or mcShea would give it a 4.5!" Best I can do on short notice.

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Prolly another card game...for diablo this time.

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The dark below sounds very Diabloish.

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I got nothin'.....

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@snugglebear so does blizzard

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If Diablo 3 expansion turn D3 into singleplayer game as it should be since day one, as all fans requested before D3 was released, then maybe just maybe I will get interested.

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@Brazucass Uh are you on drugs? You realize Diablo was always a multiplayer game. The only reason it SOLD is because it was multiplayer, Diablo 2 was the most ridiculously good game you could possibly play on LAN in the late 90s.

So based on that Diablo 3 was a multiplayer game and should have been if they had made the game correctly. Based on how stupid and bad it is, it still should be multiplayer.

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@Brazucass judging from their stellar record i would say they would punch us in the face first before that ever happens

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@Brazucass It already happened. It's the PS4 version.

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