The final countdown concludes!

To round out the day until May 15, we’ll be having a look back at some of the events that have brought us to release.

Where would any of us be without a release date? After years of waiting, the Official Diablo 3 Site announced that the release date had been finalized and would be the 15th of May, 2012.

While Blizzard had originally hoped to have the game released by the end of 2011, the date was revised to “early 2012“, then revised again to “Q2 2012″, meaning a release in April, May or June.

And what do you know?! Here we are in the middle of May, with the wait whittled down to just a few short hours before we can all start enjoying the game for which we have waited for so long!