The day of reckoning has finally arrived! Blizzard announced today that the highly-anticipated sequel of ever-popular Starcraft will be released on July 27th this summer! The game will see retail availability worldwide in the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the regions of […]
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If you’ve been putting off pre-ordering Starcraft II, Gamestop and Amazon have sweetened the deal for you. By pre-ordering Starcraft 2, you can receive a beta code for the closed multiplayer beta. For Amazon, the code will be emailed within 5 business days of the pre-order. The promotion is limited to one per customer, and
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Blizzard announced that Starcraft II will be shipping in both standard and collector’s editions on its release sometime this year. The collector’s edition will come with an art book, a copy of the original StarCraft, a behind-the-scenes DVD, a comic book, and other items. According to Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime, “We’ve been looking forward to
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It was revealed earlier this month that the Starcraft II closed beta would begin, and begin it has! Invitation codes were sent out to approved applicants for this highly anticipated beta which could be redeemed as early as yesterday. The beta is only open to multiplayer aspects of the game including a number of ranked
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Starcraft II will enter beta sometime this month. Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime revealed in a presentation to investors today that the closed beta for highly anticipated Starcraft II would be available this month. Morhaime also confirmed that SC2 was on track for a mid-2010 release, previously put around June. The beta news comes at the
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Blizzard’s upcoming Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty will feature a treat for Protoss fans in the single player mode: a mini-campaign. Single player play in Starcraft has almost always been totally dominated by Terrans, which is still mostly true for the upcoming sequel except for a Protoss mini-campaign featuring the sons of Aiur. Blizzard’s Stefanie
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The 2010 Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE) will host a Starcraft competition where players craft bots to compete against one another. There are no prizes except bragging rights, but the competition is free to enter. The final competition will be shown live at the conference with commentary and exhibition matches will also
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All of the SC enthusiasts who were up in arms about the lack of LAN support can lower their hackles…a little. Blizzard stated during Blizzcon that they were looking into working on a LAN-like solution while still being connected to Battle.net. Battle.net developer Greg Canessa told Shacknews during the event that Blizzard was looking into
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It’s not a breaking update, but it took me a day to gather up the strength to write about it. Much anticipated Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty has fallen victim to Blizzard’s release delay (again). Reasons involving work needed on battle.net were given. Speculators were correct in assuming it wouldn’t make its 2009 projected release.
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Analyst Michael Pachter from Wedbush believes that Starcraft II will sell 4 million copies in the first few months after it’s release. Now, it’s just a matter of when that will be. Blizzard had promised an open beta Summer ’09 and with summer winding down fans are left wondering “when”. Hopes of the game being
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