With all the Diablo III news spurting out of Blizzard HQ this week, I’m sure the only thing fans really want to know at this point is, “When’s it launching?”

Well, they’re working on that. Hard, apparently.

“We are still working hard to ship [Diablo 3] before the end of the year, but we are not ready to commit to a release date at this time,” Blizzard’s grand vizier Mike Morhaime explained during a recent investor call (via Eurogamer).

“The timing on the Diablo 3 release date will come down to a lot of moving parts in putting out a complex release.

“We talked about the new auction house technology which has not been fully tested. We’re not yet in beta, and it’s just going to come down to when the game is ready for primetime,” he added.

“So, we’ll know more when we hit beta and when we’ve put some of these new systems into test.
“It’s a brand new infrastructure with a lot of moving parts.”

So… maybe don’t expect it anytime this year then.

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