User blog comment:Fandyllic/Diablo III targeted for Q2 2012 release/@comment-66.69.6.32-20120210124110/@comment-168424-20120221005415

Any company can put a stake in the sand and say they must release on date X, but those companies generally put out crap. The beta is pretty cool, but it isn't going to make or break Activision-Blizzard. From seeing previews of Torchlight II, I'm not sure Diablo III is going to dominate its niche the way it used to.