Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce has said the monster-developer's merger with Activision is "cool" from a business perspective and has affected each side's money men rather than their game-creators.
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Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce has told VG247 that he's keen to get new players involved with the StarCraft universe with StarCraft II, but that accessibility won't be at the cost of satisfying the existing hardcore.
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Speaking to VG247 at Games Convention, Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce said that the updated version of Battle.Net confirmed to the launching alongside StarCraft II will be added to over time.
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A rumour about Diablo III being released before StarCraft II recently appeared. IncGamers are calling BS through developer information.
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GameXtract writes "Yeah, I don't see how it's possible either, especially since Activision Blizzard employees have already stated to the press in one form or another that Starcraft II will be out before Diablo III. But, according to Battleforum's anonymous tip from Blizzard, this may not be the case."

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While we have seen new patches far after game releases, it's still really amazing to see Blizzard dishing out patch updates 10 years after game release! This is true dedication to games, and other game developers should feel inspired by them.
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Speaking to VG247 at Games Convention, Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce said that the new version of Battle.Net, currently in development of the firm, will be part and parcel of the StarCraft II experience.
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The interesting fact with this presentation is that while we recently got confirmation that StarCraft II won't be joining us for the Christmas of 2008, but we WILL be seeing StarCraft II sometime during 2009.

"Next year's offerings from Activision Blizzard should include highly anticipated PC strategy title StarCraft II, the sequel to one of the world's most enduringly popular games."
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Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce reckons you might be getting a fourth StarCraft race "in the event" of an expansion to the RTS sequel.
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Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce has refused to commit hugely anticipated RTS StarCraft II to a 2008 release, saying simply that the company still has "too much work to do" on the game.
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Blizzard have released WoW, Starcraft and Diablo mobile phone Ringtones and Wallpapers, available to purchase directly from them!

You can check out the wallpapers and listen to the ringtones over at the Blizzard site. Here was the announcement earlier from Blizzard earlier:

"Carry a little piece of Azeroth wherever your real-world travels take you with our new World of Warcraft-themed wallpapers and ringtones for your phone. They're part of a new service that lets you download content related to your favorite Blizzard Entertainment games to supported mobile phones. Over 50 pieces of content are currently available, including ringtones of World of Warcraft's capital city themes and the distinctive murloc gurgle, as well as wallpapers featuring character artwork, class and faction emblems, and more. Visit the new Mobile Ringtones and Wallpapers page for more information -- and while you're there, be sure to check out our StarCraft and Diablo mobile content, too.

Mobile Ringtones & Wallpapers page:
http://mobile.blizzard.com/"
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The ticket drawings of 1500 tickets is now concluded, and the lucky people who were drawn can now buy up to two tickets each for BlizzCon (the mathematically gifted can count that 1500 x 2 = 3000 promised tickets). For tickets not bought where people only buy one, or where people forget to check their mail, more names will be drawn from the same pool. No word on exactly when though, not even in the BlizzCon FAQ...
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The chances of upcoming PC and Mac RTS StarCraft 2 coming to console are "very close to zero", Blizzard has said.

When asked if StarCraft 2 could ever come to consoles, Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce replied: "It's not something we're specifically planning for right now. The development team is working on the game and the interface with the PC and the PC interface peripherals in mind."

He added: "It would be a different experience. It would be difficult to unify those communities online because of the difference in the peripherals. So our focus right now is to make it a PC game. The chances of us taking it to the consoles are, I wouldn't say they are zero, but they are very close to zero."
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NextGen Player writes:

"Does Bestbuy.ca know something we don't? Their website lists the supposed release date of the highly-anticipated Starcraft 2 as December 3rd, 2008. Excitement should be tempered, as many retailers have been known to invent release dates in order to secure pre-order sales when in fact even the developers have no idea when their product will be finished."
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Robert Clotworthy told Blizzplanet he was willing to return as voice actor of Jim Raynor, one of the main characters in the single-player campaign story in Starcraft and its expansion Brood War. Blizzard Entertainment did not give him the chance to audition to reprise his former role.
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Blizzard Gamers,

On behalf of everyone at Blizzard, I want to apologize for the challenges and frustrations you experienced while trying to purchase BlizzCon tickets on Monday and Tuesday. BlizzCon is about the positive experiences you all have had with Blizzard games. As a result of this week's events, the excitement that many of you felt about the show has turned into dissatisfaction and disappointment......

"Hell it's about time" -Space Marine
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The original "StarCraft" is one of the most successful video games of all time. The sci-fi real-time strategy game debuted more than a decade ago and had sold more than nine million copies as of the spring of last year.

No doubt the sales would have been even bigger if the game had global distribution from the start. With years of experience in China behind it, the game publisher now looks like it will be aggressive about launching the game early in China.
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The annoucement.......

"Tickets to BlizzCon 2008 are now sold out. Blizzard would like to thank everyone once again for their overwhelming interest in this year's show. If you were unable to secure tickets, please keep in mind that DIRECTV will be broadcasting BlizzCon live from the Anaheim Convention Center on October 11 and 12. In the meantime, keep an eye on the BlizzCon 2008 website for updates on panels, exhibits, events, and more. Blizzard looks forward to meeting some of you at the show!"

Was immediatley followed by an infinite number of flamers......
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It's Monday, August 11th, and that means that BlizzCon tickets are on sale. Except, they're really not. Blizzard's new Blizzard Store site is epic fail broken -- all most people are seeing is the "error has occured" screen above.

Hopefully this isn't a preview of things to come. and hopefully Blizzard will figure out a fair way to get these tickets out (because right now, the site certainly isn't working). Expect more updates to this post as the process goes along.
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Ripten writes:

"Blizzard fans have zerg-rushed the Blizzard website into submission over tickets to BlizzCon 08. So Blizzard has come up with a solution to sell the tickets in waves.

Did you ever play "Red light / Green light" as a kid? Where you can only run forward when the "it" person says go? Seems that's the game Blizzard is playing with its BlizzCon 08 registration."
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