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    StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

    Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Jul 27, 2010

    The first chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy focuses on the struggles of the Terran race, as seen through the eyes of Commander Jim Raynor, leader of the rebel group Raynor's Raiders.

    Go Tell Blizzard You Want To Play The StarCraft II Beta

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    Edited By jeff
    Click the button marked go and shout
    Click the button marked go and shout "THIS IS JIMMY" three times for extra luck!
    Blizzard has opened up the opt-in process for the upcoming beta for StarCraft II. This manifests itself as a new section in the Battle.net account profile pages called "Beta Profile Settings." In this section you'll download an application that takes some hardware readings, uploads that profile back to Blizzard, and flags you as the type of person who wouldn't mind playing StarCraft II before it comes out.

    Of course, there's no guarantee that you'll be selected to participate, and there's no hard start date for the beta. But Blizzard's posted up a FAQ on the process that you should probably read. Especially this part about needing to own games before being able to sign up:
    In order for a Battle.net account to be able to opt in to upcoming beta tests, you must have at least one Blizzard Entertainment game that you own attached to the account. Please note that the World of Warcraft trial edition does not count toward this requirement.
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    #1  Edited By jeff
    Click the button marked go and shout
    Click the button marked go and shout "THIS IS JIMMY" three times for extra luck!
    Blizzard has opened up the opt-in process for the upcoming beta for StarCraft II. This manifests itself as a new section in the Battle.net account profile pages called "Beta Profile Settings." In this section you'll download an application that takes some hardware readings, uploads that profile back to Blizzard, and flags you as the type of person who wouldn't mind playing StarCraft II before it comes out.

    Of course, there's no guarantee that you'll be selected to participate, and there's no hard start date for the beta. But Blizzard's posted up a FAQ on the process that you should probably read. Especially this part about needing to own games before being able to sign up:
    In order for a Battle.net account to be able to opt in to upcoming beta tests, you must have at least one Blizzard Entertainment game that you own attached to the account. Please note that the World of Warcraft trial edition does not count toward this requirement.
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    #2  Edited By Snail

    But I don't wanna!

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    #3  Edited By PureRok

    Totally signing up for this. I knew my account would be worth more someday.

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    #4  Edited By Al3xand3r

    Link? :P

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    #5  Edited By PureRok

    They have it on their main page at Blizzard.com. You can click this link and it should let you sign up.

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    #6  Edited By Al3xand3r

    I do have a battle net account and everything, owning stuff like Diablo 2, but any battle net page tells me "forbidden" now. Either it's getting hammered, or they're region locking it for this beta test or something...

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    #7  Edited By NoXious

    I think the Battle.Net site is regional nowadays. My mate told me about this about a month ago, and we just kept on getting 403 errors on ANY and ALL B.Net sites. 

    EDIT: Oeh! I just did a quick Google-search, since I'm acking to get into the beta now. And for us europeans -> http://eu.battle.net

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    #8  Edited By Crono

    Yay!  Signed and sent.

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    #9  Edited By CL60

    badass!

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    #10  Edited By spiceninja

    That was easy to sign up for. They also sign you up for any future Diablo and Warcraft betas in the process.

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    #11  Edited By cky71321

    Hopefully Blizzard lets up and notices what companies like Microsoft did (Halo 3 beta, Windows 7 RC) and allow tons of people to get into it. Otherwise, they'll just have a bunch of people snagging it by other means with no way to help them improve on SC2.

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    #12  Edited By Forcen

    I can't sign up because they wont migrate WoW accounts in europe yet.

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    #13  Edited By Rockanomics

    Blah it's down already

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    #15  Edited By CallMeRotten

    Quit dicking around Blizzard and hurry the fuck up with your games you silly silly people.

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    #16  Edited By MordeaniisChaos

    God DAMNIT! I want to download the thing NAO =(

    Blizzard, you should fix it for me... I wants it soooo bad..

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    #17  Edited By RHCPfan24

    Sweet. I may try to sign up for this thing.

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    #18  Edited By TehBuLL

    just another opportunity for spammers to send u hacked links to betas that steal your shit.

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    #19  Edited By JoelTGM

    How come it says there's a problem when I try to send the info.

    edit:  finally, it worked.  nice.

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    #20  Edited By Karmum

    Screwed if you don't like, have a CD key first. Since it says you have to have added a game before you can be apart of the BETA settings.

    Edit - Not a big deal, since I plan on buying the Diablo Battle Chest soon.

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    #21  Edited By sloppyjoe

    FYI for anyone with troubles.  I had to use IE to get the downloader thing to work... firefox led be to an "oops" page.

    War3 and D2 games added fine, but my starcraft cd key isn't accepted "too many attempts"

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    #22  Edited By Mikael

    I signed up as soon as possible, I so want to play SC2 :)

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    #23  Edited By Media_Master

    Beta Beta

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    #24  Edited By giyanks22

    Um...People aren't seeing the big picture...
    This means the beta could be out in June or even may, a good two months before Blizz Con.
    This means the actual game could be out in July or August, which would make sense, since it coincides with other Blizzard Release dates for games like Warcraft 3, Starcraft, Starcraft BW, and Diablo II and DIablo II LOD.

    Unfortuneately I can't find my original SC CD Case, so I can't sign up. I 'll get one from a friend tomorrow though.

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