Blizzard’s New Teaser Splash Page Is Icy
Posted by x3sphere at June 23, 2008, 10:45 am
The crafty folks over at Blizzard have launched a new teaser website, teasing visitors with an image of a huge chuck of ice. Clearly Blizzard is prepping an announcement regarding new details on one of its upcoming projects, presumably World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. Although it seems almost too obvious, the MMO expansion easily fits in with the whole icy theme on display here. In fact, if you look closely, a part of the rune pictured to the left can be found on Arthas’ Frostmourne blade, as pointed out by a Blizzard fan site.
Wrath of the Lich King or not, expect details to hit during the company’s Worldwide Invitational event, which kicks off June 28 through 29 in Paris, France.
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It would APPEAR that they've solved the image, and in all likeliness they have, but I think the jury is still out on that rune connection.
Why? The Blizzard universe, namely Diablo and Warcraft, are full of symbols and rune designs, and some of them are bound to cross over, especially when the concept are is done by the same people.
What I'm saying is, MAYBE this is going to be a Diablo-related image, and there just happens to be a rune that looks similar to the one of Frostmourne? I'm really reaching here, but technically the rune in the splash image is at a different orientation than it appears on the sword.