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As you may recall, Rob Pardo was the keynote speaker at that week’s GDC in Paris, only days before the Worldwide Invitational in the same city. He delivered a speech laden with a lot of insight into his and Blizzard’s inner workings and philosophy, but not much in the way of new knowledge about WoTLK, as Natalie reported yesterday.

However, Gamesindustry.biz is reporting that Pardo did let a rather major piece of knowledge slip in the final Q&A session that wrapped up on the conference. It looks like there may be a new game announcement at the Invitational later that week after all. Someone asked Pardo to comment on the Diablo 3 rumors that have been whizzing around the net lately.

“So you want me to announce the game before our announcement?” he said. “No offense, but I think there’s like 300 society here, and I’ll be ripped apart by 8000 public there [at the Invitational] whether I pre-announce it – but it’s going to be really exciting. I think everybody here will be really excited about the announcement.”

Luckily, among those 8000 public at the Worldwide Invitational will be three of our own, so you can expect WoW Insider will be on top of that announcement when it drops. In the meantime, be certain to check our in-depth analysis of the latest changes to Blizzard’s splash screen, which is nearly certainly a teaser for that announcement.

[Thanks for the forward, Centipede!]

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Original post by Daniel Whitcomb