Blizzard has finally announced the last class in its highly anticipated RPG, Diablo 3. The fifth class is the Demon Hunter, who uses dual crossbows and an assortment of projectile weapons.

[Image courtesy of Blizzard]

According to the official Demon Hunter Class Page:

“There is something in all demon hunters that gives them the strength to resist the demonic corruption that would drive lesser men to madness. They hone this power, for their resistance to this taint enables them to use the demons’ power as a weapon.

Here’s the official Demon Hunter trailer:

Not bad. I think I might be able to refrain from complaining about the lack of a knight/paladin class. For now. What do you think?

[High five to Jason Shreier]

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Google will be working with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) to scan the entire Dead Sea Scrolls and bring them online. While Google will not do the actual photographing and scanning, it will add the search component to the Dead Sea Scrolls in different languages.

[High Five to Chloe Albanesius]

Have a bunch of different files that you want to convert to a different format? Want to do it for free? No sweat. Online Converter is a free full-featured service that lets you convert audio, video, images, documents, and ebooks into different file formats.

Just because it’s free doesn’t mean it’s lightweight. The service takes your file and lets you convert it to most of the popular formats.

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The service also includes a hash generator. Now that’s service.

[High Five to Rick Broida]

If you’re playing Starcraft 2 and thinking of using a trainer to teach the single player AI a lesson, here’s some good advice: Don’t do it online. Why? Here are 5000 reasons why. Blizzard recently banned over 5,000 Starcraft 2 players that were caught cheating while connected to Battle.net.

To be fair, not all that were caught were cheating against people online. Some of them were using trainers in single player games. It just so happened that they were logged in to Battle.net and were therefore caught in the sweep. A perfect example of this can be found in Jason Shreier’s recent post.

So the next time the single player AI is beating you, don’t use a trainer. The game DOES have built-in codes for single player games and they’re legal.

If you find yourself looking for the old fighting games to play on your computer, you’re in luck. Mortal Kombat Project was made by fans of the popular fighting game and uses all the characters that were seen in the series. The game includes character models from MK3 and music. All the moves you remember are there including the “fatalities”.

Best of all, it’s free. Toasty!

Fans of Blizzard’s famous RTS game, Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty, will be interested to know that there might be a chance that the first expansion could debut early 2012.

As discussed by Tor Thorsen on Gamespot, Starcraft 2 Heart Of The Swarm could arrive in March or April 2012 after Battle.net project director Greg Canessa’s comment at GDC Online in Austin, Texas where he said that future Battle.net features as trading replays, broadcasting replays, and upgrading profiles, were a main area of focus will be seen on the Starcraft [II] side over the next 18 months between now and Heart of the Swarm.

Just a rumor? We’ll let you know as time goes on.

[High Five to Jason Schreier]