StarCraft II To Be Released On July 27

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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Re:bout time

[jdpars]

Honestly, I think this may be fake. That article doesn't cite any source, just that "Blizzard announced..." It would be nice if they said that it was at another press tour like the announcement of the map editor and trial of the single player campaign. Also, there's nothing up yet on the official forums, which is where they post follow-ups to announcements like these.

multiplayer with only humans?

[dargon]

Perhaps someone in the beta can enlighten me. Till they get the other expansions out, isn't terran vs terran multiplayer gonna be rather boring?

No unauthenticated LAN, no money from me

[Rogerborg]

Treat me like a thief, and I might as well act like one.