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[6:55] There will be a Starcraft II beta test later this summer, and Morhaime offers to get anyone in attendance into the program. Morhaime expects to launch Starcraft II by the end of the year, though he also notes that it will only ship once the game is done.

[6:56] Morhaime says that more about the games will be revealed at BlizzCon and encourages everyone to attend the August show, which sold out yesterday.

[6:56] Morhaime closes with a cinematic cutscene video from Starcraft II's single-player campaign.

So it looks like it could still be delayed and we won't know for sure till Blizzcon, but Gamestop labeled it for end of 2009 which is why I posted here. I guess we'll know for sure at Blizzcon.

Derr, I'm an idiot. I thought this was the D3 thread. SCII is still good news in my book though. What's the word on the 3 games though, are they still doing that?

Lets hope that SCII does actually come out before the end of the year but they'd be better to release it in the spring of next year with all the game crunch in that time.

no game will take any attn or sales away from sc2.. if anything a sc2 fall release should make every other company hold off till spring

Not shipping 2 out of 3 campaigns? That's kinda super ing dumb.

If they're not free DLC, Blizzard will have legit lost their ing minds.

Whats the big deal? You still get all races for multiplayer and skirmish. Come on, you know how many Blizzard nuts there are out there? And they aren't charging online fees, so they will get away with three separate campaigns.

It also means that the campaign will be rather uh... long lol.

I hope they don't delay till 2010, 2010 is already looking insanely good if any more games get delayed to 2010. Right now theres little to celebrate on the PC for the rest of the year outside of this and Sims 3. Exclusive wise anyways.

Originally Posted by Monsta Mack Whats the big deal? You still get all races for multiplayer and skirmish. Come on, you know how many Blizzard nuts there are out there? And they aren't charging online fees, so they will get away with three separate campaigns. It also means that the campaign will be rather uh... long lol. I hope they don't delay till 2010, 2010 is already looking insanely good if any more games get delayed to 2010. Right now theres little to celebrate on the PC for the rest of the year outside of this and Sims 3. Exclusive wise anyways.

Just because you can doesn't necessarily mean you should *Cough Left 4 Dead 2 Cough Cough*

It's still kind of a dick move.

Originally Posted by Hydro2Oxide Just because you can doesn't necessarily mean you should *Cough Left 4 Dead 2 Cough Cough* It's still kind of a dick move.

You think they split it up for them to be able to work on Diablo III at the same time or because they're now apart of Activision who seem to pride on yearly sequels?

I've seen the beta running, and it's pretty clean and smooth. I'm far from a Starcraft fan, but it looks a lot more done than Blizzard is letting on.

Leaked specs from a old leak in May were released to which I forgot to mentioned.

Minumum Requirements
GFX: GeForce 7/8 Series or Radeon 1000/2000 with 256 MB RAM
CPU: Pentium 4
RAM: 1 GB
Internet: ADSL 1 Mbit

Recommended Requirements
GFX: GeForce 8000 or Radeon 2000 series with 512 MB RAM
CPU: Core 2 Duo or Athlon X2.
RAM: 2 GB
Internet: ADSL 3 Mbit

Me and the Wife are in the process of looking for a good gaming laptop $700 or less so hopefully we can get one by December.

get a gaming desktop :/

No LAN am confirmed.

Seems like a dumb decision. I don't really go to LANparties no mores, but still. At least mention that it could be added down the line.

they made it sound like some new feature in Battle.net can somehow be a substitute for LAN (maybe like how Steam does it?)

What does Steam do?

Without LAN, you won't be able to play locally. At all. An internet connection will be required, which is, frankly, pretty stupid.

Basically you have to connect to Steam first, then there will be an option to look for games on your LAN. Yeah it's kinda stupid. Blizzard's probably only doing it because of things like Hamachi

oh the days of spawn installation are gone. ><

wow.. if they get rid of LAN support and charge for b.net i might have to go slap somebody.

they've said B.net will definitely be free, but some aspects may cost money (stuff about leagues, tournaments)

Tech trees: http://www.giantbomb.com/starcraft-i...ees/52-342160/

Damn look at that spaceport, can house half the Terran army lol.