Activision Blizzard earnings: Diablo III to debut in Q2, 2012

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During Activision Blizzard’s earnings call to analysts today, the publisher revealed that the long-awaited action-role-playing game Diablo 3 will be coming out the second quarter of this year.

(That puts the release date sometime within April to June, for those of you who are counting down the minutes.)