Starcraft 2!

[edgeowns]

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May 12. It will be revealed.

[andz]

May 12. It will be revealed.

not May 12, its May 19th.

Blizz Confirms New Product Next Month

It took a good day of calls and emails, but Blizzard just got back to us about the rumor floating around that Starcraft 2 will be announced next month during their World Wide Invitation in Seoul, South Korea.

According to a Korean website, StarCraft 2 is being developed in 3D with a new race and lots of changes for existing units. The site went on to say that additional details would be revealed during Blizzard's WWI on May 19th in Seoul.

When reached for comment today this was Blizzard's official response:

We do intend to announce a new product at the Worldwide Invitational next month in Korea, and we appreciate the enthusiasm and interest in getting an advance look at what that will be, but players will have to wait until May 19th to find out more. Also, we have a very strong connection with the characters and settings of StarCraft, and we do plan to revisit that universe at some point in the future, but we don't have anything new to announce in that regard at present.

So that's a yes on a StarCraft 2, eventually, and a yes to a product announcement next month. The only question now is are they one in the same. Brian Crecente

Source: http://kotaku.com/gaming/starcraft-2/

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May 19-20th - when Blizzard will hold its 3rd worldwide invitational in the StarCraft "homeland",Seoul, Korea. On April 26th, a Korean site (thisisgame.com - http://www.thisisgame.com/board/view...1&category=102) published an article regarding a possible announcement of StarCraft 2 in the invitational. In short: it includes a response from Blizzard Korea's chairman, who said they will have a game announced on May 19th. It also includes a quote from Blizzard's CEO (which was not published before, so it's not 100% authentic) who said in February 28th, that Blizzard will announce a sequel in the invitational: "At the World Wide Invitational in May, there will be a surprise announcement". For the full translated article: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...topic_id=52433 Later on, on April 27th, Blizzard sent this mail as a reply for a member of the community named Kotaku:

"We do intend to announce a new product at the Worldwide Invitational next month in Korea, and we appreciate the enthusiasm and interest in getting an advance look at what that will be, but players will have to wait until May 19th to find out more. Also, we have a very strong connection with the characters and settings of StarCraft, and we do plan to revisit that universe at some point in the future, but we don't have anything new to announce in that regard at present"

, thus confirming the rumors.

Source: BlizzForums

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Starcraft 2 at May 19th

Claim: StarCraft 2 at May 19th

A new South Korean source claims that, according to a leak, Blizzard will be announcing StarCraft 2 at the World Wide Invitational, on the 19th of May 2007.

According to a post at Thisisgame.com, Blizzard will announce the sequel for StarCraft in the home land of StarCraft: South Korea. The World Wide Invitational (WWI) is a Blizzard event where top gamers are invited to play Blizzard's games, and that's where the announcement is claimed to be.

Blizzard's strategy for announcing new games have traditionally been by surprising the crowd at one of the major game events. According to Thisisgame, over 100 international media partners have been invited to the World Wide Invitational, and to the possible announcement of a sequel.

Here's the English version, freely translated, of the original source at Thisisgame.com:

Starcraft 2 will be announced to the public on May 19th at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitation (WWI).

On April 25th, according to the game company Blizzard Korea Entertainment, it is confirmed that they will announce Starcraft 2 demonstrating it with both videos and images. Furthermore, the developers of Starcraft 2 will be there, and have time to answer the questions.

Starcraft 2 is being developed in 3D and there will be new race and some specific changes to remaining races. Details of only minor parts will be released at WWI.

Blizzard invited more than a hundred of broadcasting teams from around the world for this announcement. Prior to this very secret moment on May 19th, they will not release any information.

However, from the people who previously worked with Blizzard, there is trusted word about this information. A person who recently retired from Blizzard said there is development of Starcraft 2 and there will be an announcement.

The chairman of Blizzard Korea said “we cannot answer anything about Starcraft 2, we will have a new game on 19th so please come and find out”. He refused to answer if new game is Starcraft 2.

The shout caster “Um Jae Kyung” said “I expect it to be very balanced but have concerns regarding E-Sports, but I doubt there will be changes about E-sports in regards to Starcraft I. However, there will be most likely be another league for Starcraft II and e-sports will be much bigger. Since I’m one of the gamers, I’m very excited about this”.

The 3rd WWI will be on May 19th ~ 20th in Seoul, and it seems there will be a lot taking place.

No smoke without a fire

Whether or not these claims are true will be difficult to confirm because of the nature of the source (anonymous leak). Over the years there have been much said about the sequel - Blizzard has repeatedly mentioned that they have always been interested in "revisiting the StarCraft world". However, only recently has there been an increasing number of leaks regarding Starcraft 2, all hinting that it is indeed coming out soon. Here's the recent history:

# December 2006: An 'Unannounced project' was what Chris Sigaty, Lead Producer of WarCraft 3 (and its expansion), said he was working with when GosuGamers met up with Blizzard in our recent interview called » When Blizzard started talking. He would not comment further on what project it was.

# 8th January 2007, GosuGamers » reported about a claim that StarCraft 2 would be announced early 2007. That source also leaked a lot of other unconfirmed information to the gaming community, much which have turned out to be true.

# Only days later, 16th January 2007, at the launch of the Burning Crusade, » a Blizzard representative made further, and this time public, hints about StarCraft II.

# 9th April 2007, sources at FighterForum (» translated at TeamLiquid http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...topic_id=51768) claimed that information about a new race and 3D graphics being included in StarCraft 2 had leaked from the company and that a beta would be out by the end of 2007. It only contained claims for a new "Kerrigan" race and that the original units of StarCraft would be included in the sequel, but with a modification.

Source: http://sc.gosugamers.net/news.php?id=6151

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And So It Begins...

We're 6 days away from the upcoming announcement for Blizzard's new game, and today, the first big step has been taken. Upon entering www.blizzard.com, you'll encounter a splash screen.

The current splash screen (titled "day1"), shows pictures of the covers of WarCraft I and II. Right below the pictures is a timeline of all the PC games that Blizzard has developed, with a glowing question mark at the end of it:



Obviously it's the next game that Blizzard is going to introduce at Seoul, and hopefully it's StarCraft II.

Source: www.sclegacy.com

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StarCraft II "Very Likely" @ WWI (May 19th @ Korea)

Today, a story was published in the The Korea Times(www.koreatimes.co.kr) which seems to support the ever-growing mass of rumors surrounding the imminent (and confirmed) game announcement at Blizzard's World Wide Invitational (WWI).

The article yields some more interesting pieces to the puzzle including these comments:

A source, who is familiar with the issue, also said the game will be the long-awaited StarCraft II.

``Blizzard plans to announce StarCraft II at the WWI 2007. It will be different in many ways from the original StarCraft including the number of species,'' said the source who declined to be named.

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When contacted, Blizzard Entertainment Korea refused to confirm the release of StarCraft II.

``We will be sure to take the wraps off a new computer game next week but we cannot say what it would be,'' Blizzard Entertainment Korea spokesperson Jessie Kim said.

Most of the rumors seem to be pointing towards SC2 - as another RTS - rather than the ever frightening rumors of a SC MMO. There's less than 2 weeks left until the WWI and you can be sure SC:L will be covering all the details of that (possibly) historic day. Stay tuned.

Source: www.sclegacy.com & www.koreantimes.co.kr

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Various interviews with Blizzard employees over the last year who claimed that "StarCraft is their favorite game and they will be the happiest people alive when it's announced". The most known of these is Itzik Ben-Basat's announcment on The Burning Crusade release-party in London (January 16th, 2007): "We'd like to say to our fans of Diablo and StarCraft that we haven't forgotten we have these franchises," he said. "We cannot wait to be here in a few years, or however long it will be. It won't be a decade, and we'll be celebrating the launch of [the next] StarCraft together". People in the crowd said that when he said this, the other Blizzard representatives looked like a secret is being revealed and felt uncomfortable. More information: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6164196.html.

Source: www.gamespot.com

Lots more rumors... too long to post them all.. Wait til May 19th it will be either Starcraft 2 or World of Starcraft or a new Franchise.

6 Days to go til 19th.

One Last Thing, The Official May 19th Countdown: http://wwi.blizzard.co.kr/ Yes its from Blizzard Korea.

[mic1984_69]

If this true welcome back starcraft, they are saying there putting a new RACE, my god, dont tell me there gonna make DOTA for starcraft 2 as well, hahahaa.... It can be possible ryt, hehehe...

[kent666]

pretty much especially if they design a new engine for the new game.

[xtian_hero]

well, if thats the case... then... tournament for SC2 is on.....

[ares623]

weeee! murag Starcraft 2 jud ni! nya RTS pa jud, which is very good. pero murag next year pa jud ni ma-release dah...

[rj325]

yey! starcraft 2 unta. pero what if dli RTS ang starcraft 2? fps cya. hahaha...
or what if its warcraft 3 expansion

[ares623]

haha. warcraft meets starcraft... then meets diablo!

[andz]

yey! starcraft 2 unta. pero what if dli RTS ang starcraft 2? fps cya. hahaha...
or what if its warcraft 3 expansion

Not Possible Warcraft 3 already had an expansion
Stacraft FPS is Starcraft Ghost which was Postponed/Delayed/Cancelled for the next-gen Consoles.

5 days to go til announcement, everyone thinks its Starcraft 2 especially for the fact that it is going to be announced in KOREA(Starcraft Country)

Read my first posts for facts and rumors

If you right click> view source on the blizzard website you will see .999_ = 1

Blizzard once released a press release about .999_ = 1 or whatever.

FYI: The background reminds me of a blizzard/snow storm more then it does of space.

Also remember that WoW's announcement included that space scene, which through a lot of us off.

This was the original announcement: http://www.blizzard.com/press/040401.shtml

Unfortunately, I missed these years of discussions on the Battle.net forums. But fact is, it's a returning theme for Blizzard

in other words if .999 = 1 comes out in the sources it means there's a new game announcement.

Blizzard: Let the Teasing Begin

[img width=500 height=135]http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/05/blizzhome.png[/img]



Gearing up for the announcement about a new game during the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in South Korea (19-20 May), the Blizzard homepage now has a timeline of notable games at the bottom, from Warcraft: Orcs and Humans (1994) to WoW (2004), but a big fat question mark for the future.

If their intention was to whip fanboys into a frenzy, I'm sure they'll succeed.

Blizzard Entertainment: www.blizzard.com

Source: Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/?refId=260011

[ares623]

whatever it will be, i'm sure i'm gonna like it, as long as it's not an MMORPG, coz i can't pay for those.