If news aggregation site Kaputik is right, Blizzard Entertainment's highly anticipated action RPG game, Diablo III will go on sale December 24, 2009. While the date seems suspect due to Christmas taking place a day later, it also says that an online multiplayer demo version of the game will give potential players a taste of the action on September 11, 2009.
The writer of the story calls his sources "associates working on a Diablo 3 game design," and also released PC and Mac minimum specs, which feel a bit underpowered for such a beautiful looking game. Of course, Diablo II only required a 233 MHz processor with 32 MB of RAM when it released on June 29, 2000 -- which was also far under the standard for the day.
PC:
Operating System: Windows XP / Vista
Processor: 1.4 GHz or higher CPU
RAM: 1GB or more.
Video: 128MB video card DX9
Hard Drive Space: 4-8GB
Mac:
Operating System: MacOS X 10.3 (Panther) or better.
Processor: 1.6 GHz or higher.
RAM: 1 GB or higher, DDR RAM recommended.
Video: 128MB ATI or NVIDIA video card
Hard Drive Space: 4-8 GB
Of course, given Blizzard's "it's released when it's done" type approach and nine months until the rumored release, there's also a good chance that if dates are from Blizzard, they'll most likely change several times before release.
Reader Comments (3)
I doubt we will see D3 anytime this year. The dates given sound awefully fishy... Sept 11th, Dec 24th... Come on, be a little more realistic w/ the dates, try some odd ball ones for a change instead of a couple VERY notible dates... A game like this I highly doubt will get an official release date just a hand full of months before it actually hits the market... I have a feeling it will be more of a "Summer Hit" for 2010 then a "Christmas Present" for this year. Heck, it might not even come out this year or next...
damn i just bought diablo II last week haha seriously!
:D I can't wait!