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StarCraft II To Be Released On July 27

Posted by Soulskill on from the guess-it's-ready dept.

Blizzard announced today that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first game in a series of three, will be released on July 27. The game will contain the Terran campaign (29 missions), the full multiplayer experience, and "several challenge-mode mini-games," with "focused goals designed to ease players into the basics of multiplayer strategies." It will launch alongside the revamped Battle.net, which we've previously discussed. Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime said, "We've been looking forward to revisiting the StarCraft universe for many years, and we're excited that the time for that is almost here. Thanks to our beta testers, we're making great progress on the final stages of development, and we'll be ready to welcome players all over the world to StarCraft II and the new Battle.net in just a few months."

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  1. Finally! by Schickeneder · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been waiting for this half my life!

    1. Re:Finally! by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 3, Funny

      God that's scary.

      Newly hatched zerglings should not trouble a fully mature high templar.

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      Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
    2. Re:Finally! by Starayo · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm going to be pwning noobs until "pwning noobs" is a ridiculously outdated term and then I'll beat my grandkids at whatever game they're playing and I'll go "Yeah! I pwned you little noobs! Old school!" and they'll groan and go "graaaaandpaaaaaa". It'll be awesome.

      Is it bad that I want to troll my hypothetical grandkids?

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      Ezekiel 23:20
    3. Re:Finally! by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

      He was shocked that someone as old as I was would still play games. :)

      I hope you kicked that little punk's ass for him.

      >>"Gee, mister, I didn't know you forty-something senior citizens still liked to play games!"

      >"Screw off, junior, I was playin' games with your slutty mama, and you know what? She likes to take it right in the Spawning Pool, if you get my drift. Now get outta here before I strangle you with this corded sixaxis."

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      You are welcome on my lawn.
  2. All your base are belong to us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nerds unite! Now you can logout of WoW for 30 minutes to get your ass handed to you by a Korean teenager again!

    1. Re:All your base are belong to us by lpp · · Score: 2, Funny

      Seems like as good a place as any to keep them.

  3. Time to buy stock by pwnies · · Score: 3, Funny

    in power plants in South Korea. I hear they're going to have a boom come July.

  4. Re:bout time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Their office kept getting zerg rushed. Production could not be completed.

  5. Re:bout time by Dayofswords · · Score: 5, Funny

    They required more vespene gas.

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    Someday we'll hit the human carrying capacity. And the band will just play on.
  6. Re:But will it have LAN? by Red+Flayer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, wrong franchise.

    That's WoT (Wheel of Time) and I don't think there's a RTS game in the works for that franchise, only a piss-poor MMO that'll never get off the ground, what with all the braid-pulling and emoization of the main characters and all.

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    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  7. Re:bout time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And additional pylons. My god, the pylons...

  8. Duke Nukem Forever by Haxzaw · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, could Duke Nukem Forever be just around the corner?