“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.”

The Release Date: July 27, 2010

After so many years the day has come that StarCraft 2 will officially be released, I can’t beleive that it is so close, less then three months away. I got so used to the delays year after year I had no expectations to see it soon even after pre-ordering it Amazon, but seeing the date officially release from Blizzard has me excited. Now to plan for some free time during end of July to really get into the game, I want to enjoy the campaign mode before getting slaughtered in the online MultiPlayer as there are a lot of experienced gamers still playing the game since 1998.

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