As a stalwart lover of all things Diablo, today is a weird day. It seems like the news coming out of Activision Blizzard as we near Blizzcon 2015, which runs from November 6th through November 7th, has become a deluge. Just yesterday, Austin wrote an article about Activision Blizzard acquiring King, the developers of the devilishly addictive and mind-numbingly successful mobile game, Candy Crush. Also yesterday, a trailer teaser (teaser trailer, whatever) popped up for the upcoming Warcraft movie. As if that wasn’t enough, a smaller but perhaps more exciting bit of information hit concerning the future of Blizzard’s past catalog, namely Diablo II, Warcraft III and Starcraft. Under the Job Openings portion of Blizzard’s website, a posting went up just looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Classic Games. The text for the posting is as follows:

Compelling stories. Intense multiplayer. Endless replayability. Qualities that made StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II the titans of their day. Evolving operating systems, hardware, and online services have made them more difficult to be experienced by their loyal followers or reaching a new generation.

We’re restoring them to glory, and we need your engineering talents, your passion, and your ability to get tough jobs done.

Emphasis mine, of course. Among the communities for these games, there is now a pretty intense discussion about what exactly this means. Are the games being optimized for new operating systems, but being kept as close to their original releases as possible? Or, in the alternative, is this the first hint that we may be getting something like HD remakes of these classic Blizzard games? Obviously, it is much too soon to tell. With the most basic interpretation, the text makes it sound like they are looking to make the older games playable on new computers. The more interesting portion, however, comes in the listing of responsibilities, where they state that they are looking for people who, “Own implementation and curation of features new and old.”

I don’t want to get too excited, but hearing about the possibility of new features in these older games is pretty exciting. Of course, new features could be just about anything, and may not be anything that would add to the game in any substantial way, But, with how little is said in this posting, it’s fun to speculate on the possibilities.

So, what do you duders and dudettes think? Do you fondly remember these games? Do you want optimized versions for your Windows 10 PCs or full on HD remakes for PCs and even consoles? Or are we riding this hype train way too early?

Also, is it too soon to start mapping out my Spearazon’s skill tree?