When World of Warcraft came out, I lamented the fact that it wasn't Diablo 3. After all, Diablo 2 is probably still my favorite game of all time: I actually scratched a good chunk of flesh off my face when I missed the 90 day window for logging into B.net by a couple of days and lost three 90+ Hell characters and one 70+ Hard Core Necromancer.

I've been wondering forever when Blizzard would get around to making Diablo 3, simultaneously praying that they would not make it an MMORPG, which would really lose the visceral, quick thrill of Diablo 2. Well, we still don't know when they're doing it, but in a recent interview with Diablo novelist Richard Knaak, he dropped a bunch of strong hints that Diablo as a franchise wasn't dead and that his new novels were setting up the plot for Diablo 3.

Quivering! Florian Eckhardt

Diablo: The Sin War Trilogy - Public Q&A with Richard A. Knaak [Blizzplanet]