Lost. Seriously, we are.

4 8 15 16 23 42

I miss Lost now :(

I just saw something ! The third rune that appeared is the icon of the Protos from starcraft 2 ! Exactly the same !

All this arguing over if it's WotLK or Diablo 3.....anyone else think it would be really funny if it turned out to be both? ;)

WotLK camp : Oh....cool..see we told ya!
Diablo 3 camp: Oh....cool..see we told ya!

Regarding the speculation about it possibly being the MMO diablo (if such a thing is being made) I find it highly unlikelly that they would announce WotLK and a Diablo MMO at the same time, get everyone to buy WotLK and then announce a Diablo 3 MMO, there's ya money.

Edit: If you look at those eyes for long enough it starts to look very much like some kind of winged creature ;)

By the way...why is it ice? just because the file name says so? could be anything and it's glowing blue because of the star light...probably is ice though ;)

~Lumatar

Ok, there's a few major possibilities. For one, with the Lost numbers, in the show they're linked to predicting the day humanity will destroy itself. So that might be a clue to the announcement.

Or, it might be an homage to (or even a rub on) J.J. Abrams, who is famous for viral marketing and creating hype from little-to-no information (anyone who visited the IMDB boards for Cloverfield last July-August can definitely relate to speculation on the tiniest little detail. Thankfully, I haven't seen much of that here lol). Kind of like a "Look, we can get people talking endlessly about a picture of ice too!"

With only a day away from the announcement, I'm getting edgy. My hopes are still with Diablo 3. I don't see a Diablo MMO working with the source material, and I'd much prefer a new single/non-massive multiplayer game. And I'm still sticking with my theory that the theme is Diablo 3: Hell Freezes Over.

Oh, and for the record, the ice hasn't actually opened any further this time. The hole is the exact same size and shape as yesterday, it just doesn't have "steam" blocking the view. The image itself has expanded, however, showing more of the "outskirts" of the ice around the edges.

The mark between the eyes reminds me diablo who i think he had a similar mark hadn't he? Also think about the pentagram the runes create.

Just hope that tomorrow the words "Today there will be a scheduled maintenance, all realms will be off-line until....." don't appear in the ice ;)

Good one Minuas7! it makes the demon star thingy, interesting...

also, the top rune looks like the recharging ability icon for protoss on starcraft 1

Are you just ignorant? They already unofficially made it public that it's a whole new game and therefore, no diable, no WoW, no StarCraft

This is just a shot in the dark, but for the Lost numbers...maybe its just supposed to point us towards Lost because wasn't one of the symbols for one of the Dharma Initiative stations a hydra? Maybe its just saying that this is project hydra. Thats not saying that this isn't a new Diablo, just that it is definitely their new project.

The more I read about these symbols the more I am becoming convinved that there is a reference to all the franchises/game rights that Blizzard Entertainment own, or have owned.

Lost + Compas - Lost vikings.
New rune - Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain
Pentagram Formed by joining runes - diablo.
Ice - WotLK
Starcraft....unsure here, but it has stars! ;) (Edit: Some say one of the runes is a SC rune)

Actually I think their wording was "game announcement" but I could be wrong.

I still dont know for sure but it has got to be Arthas! look at the shape of the eyes and the helmet part between the eyes! And the death knight uses different runes that are showing up in the screen! I am very excited for whatever this could be though just some info big enough for a splash screen like this going on changing for this long with a WWI coming up to be about WotLC would be uber epic awsome! Come on Blizz give us some!

Rusty Sessions of WoWpodcast.com

seriously, lost vikings 2

If these pages, have nothing to do with world of warcraft, then why the hell it is showing up on the world of warcraft page....It most likely going to be the date of WOTLK or an Arthas game and then doing this to through us off from the New game they going to announce.

ok look what happens if we add the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42:

Tundra: 04 -> 0 + 4 = 4
Harbinger: 08 -> 0 + 8 = 8
Cavern: 15 -> 1 + 5 = 6
Cold: 16 -> 1 + 6 = 7
Icy: 23 -> 2 + 3 = 5
EvilPenguin: 42 -> 4 + 2 = 6

We get 4 ; 5 ; 6 ; 6 ; 7 ; 8.

So now try this:

T U N D R A
1 2 3 4 5 6

We get "D"

C A V E R N
6 5 4 3 2 1

We get "A"

H A R B I N G E R
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

We get "B"

I C Y
3 2 1
6 5 4

We get "I"

C O L D
4 3 2 1
8 7 6 5

We get "O"

E V I L P E N G U I N
11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

We get "L"

D A B I O L

And in a different order it becomes: D I A B L O

Might just be something, hard to know.

Also the ice appears to be breaking.. Might be the heat from Diablo?

I think it's got something to do with WotLK. Hopefully the release date.

That is really smart.