There was a bit of a pandemonium over the weekend, after Joystiq caught a Twitter photo of to an in-store Best Buy display in Minnesota, advertising a 1 February launch date for Diablo III, with a midnight release and an electronic countdown and everything.<\/p>\n
Responding on Twitter shortly thereafter, however, Blizzard community manager Micah “Bashiok” Whipple<\/a> denied everything in a series of Tweets, saying “The word is lol”, “We can’t really keep every individual retail shop from making up a date”, perhaps most definitively, “Diablo III does not have a release date. Any store or person claiming otherwise is guessing”, and finally that “They misspelled February. I’m not sure it was all that official to begin with.”<\/p>\n According to an update back on Joystiq, a shop manager said he’d been told to remove the sign by his boss because the manufacturer had not been “very firm” about the game’s release date, confirming also that the sign had not been shipped from Blizzard.<\/p>\n So that’s that… but maybe not. Now UK retailer Gameplay<\/a> is showing a 3 February launch date for the game, while the French version of Euro retailer EB Games<\/a> is showing it at 1 February.<\/p>\n So yeah, I think it’s well time Blizzard just announced a proper launch date and put all this rumour and speculation to an end.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where there’s smoke, there’s a rift in Tristram that goes all the way down to Hell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":26603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[665,1799],"class_list":["post-30360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-blizzard","tag-diablo-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30368,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360\/revisions\/30368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Source: Joystiq<\/a><\/h5>\n