Leaked Blizzard.com Splash Screen Revealed

admin June 25 2008 5:23 pm 11 Comments

So all this week the Blizzard.com splash screen has had a new image of, what appears to be, something breaking through a wall of ice. Every site known to mankind has come up with some pretty elaborate theory’s as to what it means.

Diablofans.com had one of the more impressive ideas:

Another interesting fact is the URL: http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/ice1.jpg

Why 232309? If we assume that the numbers correspond to the letters in the alphabet we get 232309=WWI … ring a bell? World Wide Invitational
23 = W
23 = W
09 = I
Anyway the “hidden” picture is called 04.jpg. (http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/04.jpg)
My guess is that tomorrow we’ll see a picture called 09.jpg, then on wednesday 01.jpg ….

Today is 04.jpg = D
if Tomorrow will be 09.jpg = I (if its not, maybe not diablo at all Tongue)
Wednesday will be 01.jpg = A
Thursday will be 02.jpg = B
Friday will be 12.jpg = L
Saturday will be 15.jpg = O (June 28 WWI 1st Day)
Sunday will be 3.jpg = 3 or three.jpg or whichever. = (June 29 WII 2nd Day, and B-day of Diablo)

Other folks have come up with other ideas:

And, even MMO-Champion as kept track of the ice’s progress:

Being the awesome community that we are, forum member Izbay was able to dig into the Blizzard.com website and extract the finale image. Be warned though, the finale image could very well be labeled as “News of the Year”.

THE MOST EXCITING NEWS OF THE YEAR IS BEHIND THIS LINK! BEHOLD THE DAY FIVE BLIZZARD.COM SPLASH SCREEN!

Spread the DK:

11 Comments »

Outlandish Podcast said:

Wow, that is some crazy conspiracy stuff right there. I am just amazed by that. Kudos to the person that figured it out if it comes about. It feels like April 1st all over again though.

# 25 June 2008 at 10:17 pm

123412412414124 said:

Funny thing is, In the end it’s gonna be Warcraft 4, what the people least expect and blizzard knows, whoever came up with this idea is giggling right now because of how people think of the most obvious and most expected things imaginable. In the end it will be Warcraft4, no need to go through all of this trouble of making these different images and all this stuff when everybody knows that Sc2, diablo3, and WOTLK will be released some time while no one knows nothing about Warcraft 4.

# 25 June 2008 at 10:48 pm

me said:

today the image have a bigger crack and from the crack we can see glowing eyes.
Lich king eyes?

# 26 June 2008 at 3:08 am

Outlandish Podcast said:

Now that I think about it, it’s probably just an official release date announcement for WotLK. It’ll probably be the box art cover with a release date at the bottom?

# 26 June 2008 at 6:39 am

Mangledpixel said:

Dare we say intro cinematic?

# 26 June 2008 at 9:30 am

Here is a Juicy Rumor for You, Death Knight's Before WotLK? | DeathKnight.info said:

[...] on Death Knights, even completely ignoring other classes. Maybe they are in a rush to release them? Maybe the eyes that are glowing out of the ice on the Blizzard.com website are those of a DK bout to break out and invade a 3.0 patch [...]

# 26 June 2008 at 6:09 pm

me said:

maybe and it is really or lich king’s eyes or a deathknight’s eyes.
today we can see a part of the helm that for me looks a lot the lich king helm

# 27 June 2008 at 3:04 am

WOTLK said:

There seems to be more odd symblos apearing on the ice, anyone know what they are?

# 27 June 2008 at 8:31 am

Kat said:

I’m assuming those symbols are those of the runes that the Death Knights will use.

# 27 June 2008 at 12:29 pm

Diablo 3 is the Splash Screen...I Think | DeathKnight.info said:

[...] this” and then dropped a link to a very nice photoshop job or the finale look at all this Splash Screen madness. Fake? Dunno. Looks pretty [...]

# 27 June 2008 at 3:47 pm