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Leaked Blizzard Product Slate

For a company who never likes to give solid time tables for release dates, it is pretty shocking to see all their major titles laid out neatly over the next 5 years. Assuming this is real, (which no one noes for sure) I am guessing the aim of such a document would be to show the companies executives where their revenue will be coming in from, quarter by quarter.

If you look closely, Blizzard barely misses a beat, having a release planned for every quarter except for three, before “Titan” (alleged to be an MMOFPS, and Blizzards next big thing) comes out. Not satisfied with missing these three quarters, Blizzard triple stacks Q4 2011 with Diablo 3, Starcraft 2X1 (first Starcraft expansion), and SC2 Phoenix (which no one seems to have info about).

It looks like Diablo 3 will be the next full-fledged Blizzard release, and should drop in 2011. I do not know if this should worry or excite me as it is listed as as a Q4 release. If Blizzard is as grossly inaccurate in its estimates to execs as it usually is with us, we may not see it until 2012. new info on Diablo 3 seems to come every few weeks, with PvP Arena’s being the last big announcement. Since Arena’s are my favorite part of WOW, I am glad to see their inclusion. A D3 expansion is planned for 2013 and 2014.

WOW makes up most of this chart, with a 4th expansion planned for Q2, 2012. A Trading card game expansion is planned for Q3, 2012. And in case the world ends, Blizzard has conveniently put the WOW Movie and Q4 2012, so we all get to experience it. Pending the apocalypse, we will see the 5th WOW expansion in Q4 2013. Trying to find more information online for Project Titan has proved fruitless thus far, but I am sure we will have lots of speculation on it soon due to the inadvertent release of this product slate.