StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Hits Retail July 27

Is this date set in stone?

Excellent! Can't wait!

lies brad, lies

I just got a beta code from my friend. Having never played Starcraft, I'm fuckin' confused. Seems neat, though. I beat the CPU on Very Easy :/

Hmm wondering if this would be worth it for Single Player only. I have no interest in getting slaughtered online by a bunch of Starcraft enthusiasts. 

To everyone buying the game when it finally comes out, you will not be destroyed by people who played in the beta because you will not be in the same league as them.  At least, not if they are good.  The placement system that Blizzard is implementing on the new Star Craft works really well so far.  It is easy to move up and down and it places you against people who are at your level.  So, for the first day you might get destroyed a couple times by more experienced players but by the end of that day everyone will be in their respective leagues playing against people near their level.  Also if you keep losing it gradually moves you down until you are faced against an even match and not someone your a lot better or worse than.  I've been playing the beta for a while, that's my source.  I hope it does come out when they say it will because I really want to play the campaign.  I'm doubting that it will though.  They still have a lot of tweaking to do to even out the races and I would think they would want to try out some maps that are bigger than 2v2 which is all they are offering at the moment.  Also, the AI isn't up, they should want to try that out as well and make sure there are no glitches in the computers builds before they release the game.  but maybe that's just me.  Maybe their waiting for it to hit the shelves and then they'll release some patches.

AWESOME

I'm Terran and I HATE FUCKING ZERG!

Zealot charge, psi storm, colossi.  The only counters to MMM for protoss. Micro well and you should destroy them.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

(-_-) <-- This is my care face. It shows how much I care.

Is it just me or does this news severely lack a reference or even a snippet of the press release or anything to give some credibility to the story?

" Is it just me or does this news severely lack a reference or even a snippet of the press release or anything to give some credibility to the story? "

12 years, it's been a long time StarCraft.

"Starcrap. "

2 weeks after my birthday, guess it's time to spend some money on myself.

I'll believe it when it has actually released.  The ship date can slip so don't bank on that being the actual date.  We've seen it happen before (and I'm talking in general not specifically about Blizzard)

Hell it's about timmy. He's not gonna make it, he has cancer all over his body. Truely sorry for ur lots.

+15 for Mario RPG music

If they go mostly marines, go collosi.
 
If they go mostly marauders, go voids.
 
And use plenty of zealots/sentries/stalks as necessary.  Force fields to choke them, shields for defense, and illusions to waste their attacks.

That was "quick".

And our other top stories tonight: Sky falls, pigs fly and the Holy Grail is found in a house in Somerset.

Wow, Civ5 and SC2 in the same year. I'll have spent more time on my PC this year than I have in a long time.

I hope a Wintermaul map is made quickly.

As Rich Gallup would say, thats soon!

I refuse to believe in any release date until the game in installed on my hard drive.

Hopefully the story is good, because the multiplayer is not for me.

IRVINE, Calif. – May 3, 2010 –  Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that its highly anticipated real-time strategy game, StarCraft  II: Wings of Liberty , will arrive in stores throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau starting on July 27, 2010. Players will also be able to purchase StarCraft II: Wings of Libertydirectly from Blizzard Entertainment shortly after the retail launch.

"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," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "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." 

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty  is the sequel to Blizzard Entertainment’s 1998 hit StarCraft, which has been hailed by players and critics worldwide as one of the top real-time strategy games of all time. Sporting a vibrant 3D-graphics engine, StarCraft II will once again center on the clash between the protoss, terrans, and zerg, with each side deploying legions of veteran, upgraded, and new unit types. Unparalleled online play for StarCraft II will be available through a new version ofBattle.net, Blizzard Entertainment's world-renowned gaming service. Battle.net has been redesigned from the ground up to be the premier online gaming destination for Blizzard gamers, with several enhancements and new features, such as voice communication, cloud file storage, leagues and ladders, achievements, stat-tracking, and more.

Yo Brad,
Dealing with EMP is easy. All you need to do is have an observer and a high temp out in front of your army. When you see the ghost you use feedback, which kills ghosts instantly most of the times. And afterwards you just use the high temps for storm. Sentry forcefields help split up the MM ball making the army less effective. Also zealots with charge are good vs marines and maurauders. splitting up your army also works because your opponent will need to use multiple EMPs to get your entire army. Since the void ray got buffed in the last patch it has become incredibly effective against smaller units like marines. Rushing to void rays destroy your enemy in minutes. 1 void ray can take out 3-4 marines easy and when it's charged up it will tear through those foolish terrans even faster.
 
I wish I could play some games with you brad and teach you some things but unfortunatly I play on the European servers. 
Hope this helps

StarCraft II... Blizzard... release date?
DOES NOT COMPUTE
*shits self into space*

Yep. Don't care at all about Starcraft, because I know that going online will be pointless and I will get stomped by people better than me every time and I find RTS single player to always be both incredibly dull and monotonous.  I have yet to be shown anything different on either count. But please. Everyone worship it. Because it has Starcraft in the title and will be catering to the people who were into the first game when it first came out, which does not include me.

First release StarCraft Ghost, then Stracraft II.

Hell, it's about time.

" First release StarCraft Ghost, then Stracraft II. "

The music really makes this video for me. I could listen to this for hours.

Too soon....I guess.

" First release StarCraft Ghost, then Stracraft II. "

Seems fishy they would release it so early. I was thinking it would come out in Q4 of this year.

a good way to assist your immortals vs. M&M is to build sentry and use the shield or split their army in half with the forcefield as well.  emp will definitely mess that up so a good strategy for PvT is to actually steal their gas with a probe before they block off their choke, its only 150 minerals but it takes them a long time to get it back and can really mess up a fast M&M build which gives you time to get em. 
 
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its true that late game its almost impossible for two equally skilled players one toss, and one terran, to have the toss player come out victorious.  thats something im sure they'll balance but the key to beating terran players, for me anyway, has been to take them out early game with a good harass.  the gas almost always works.

Man, that's a lot sooner than I expected.

must.......resist.......must......resist......must.....aw f#%* it
 
hell, its about time

Man that's like most the summer. And the beta ends May 17th. Sad face :(

Im loving the beta at the moment but you are correct Brad, there are a few balance issues that remain... Namely Terran vs Protoss and Terran vs Zerg.
 
Banshee rushes can beat most anti air that Zerg can muster especially if you don't want to waste money on static defenses. Those concussive shells and ghost EMP/nuke rushes hurt majorly too. Blizz have been re jigging everything recently though, we'll see how things pan out, i'm sure they'll fix up most issues before release... It is 3 months away basically...

The multi-player game does not do it for me, too much like the original. I know that is exactly how a lot of people want it, but not myself. I am happy for those who get to enjoy it though! I would not mind checking out the single player game, though I will wait for a review to account for its style.

Wow, didnt expect it for summer!  Sadly I think I want Diablo more now thou >.>