I just got an interesting update about Diablo 3. Rumor has it that the current work on Diablo 3 was canceled and that the game is going to be completely reworked.

My tipsters tell me that Blizzard North's work on the game was, to put it kindly, below expectations. While this is mildly disappointing, it's nice to know that Blizzard still so zealously guards their name.

This news does help paint a broader picture about the closing of Blizzard North. I'm not saying the two incidents are related, but they may be. The B North folks were all offered a relocation package to move to the motherland, home of World of Warcraft, Warcraft, Starcraft and Starcraft Ghost.

Apparently most of the crew took them up on the offer and are expected to fill the offices left empty by the recent NCSoft raid a few months back.

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