During the press Q&A Dustin Browder commented that one of his major focuses was to make sure that all of the races had their own identity. When asked to elaborate on this, Dustin stated that while developing the three races, their major focus was "cool"...
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Beta is expected by Mike Morheime....
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MassiveDamage writes: "As Diablo III, the first installment of Starcraft II and the recently announced third expansion to the World of Warcraft loom ever closer, Blizzard has taken steps to ensure that Battle.net becomes a one stop shop for gamers looking to play online. Launched in 1996 following the release of Diablo, Battle. net became the centerpiece of the Blizzard online experience. Seamlessly integrated with titles allowed for simplicity in account creation, as opposed to external online services. Additionally, an absence of membership fees would poise Battle.net to become a major selling point for Diablo and subsequent Blizzard titles. However, having existed in its current form without changes since 2003 has begun to call for some updates...."
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Rumors have been floating around for months for who will play the voice of Kerrigan...
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BlizzCon 2009 show goes live today 10:00 PST (8 PM GMT)

At BlizzCon 2009 we will cover about Diablo 3, World of Warcraft & Starcraft 2 at our Live Coverage Page.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Expansion is the biggest news gamers are expecting, including two new WoW Races: Goblin & Worgen.

Diablo 3: 4th Class is what gamers want to see, lots of debate, and the biggest bid have been somekind of Diablo 3 shooter (Archer/Hunter) Class.

Continue to follow the full Coverage about BlizzCon 2009
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Uncharted 2, Legend of Zelda: Spirit tracks along with Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games are the big winners of the Gamescom 2009th A professional jury selected the game's best in their respective segments.
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Why are gamers stressing over beta keys this year? Read the article to find out...
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Acknowledging the considerable effect mods like Defense of the Ancients have had on the Blizzard community, Blizzard design head Rob Pardo has revealed that mod-makers will be able to sell the custom maps they create for the upcoming StarCraft II through an official marketplace.

At launch, the marketplace will immediately allow free distribution of mods, but commerce functionality will be added in later. Still, Pardo said, it is under active development at Blizzard.

"Imagine what could happen if you could hire a small dev team and use StarCraft II almost as an engine," he said. "This is an opportunity for [modders] to share in the rewards of our success."
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Battle.net 2.0 was finally unveiled today at Blizzcon 2009. There are a ton of new features that will revolutionize the gaming experience for how gamers play...
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Blizzard Entertainment's Rob Pardo revealed the planned features for Battle.net 2.0, which will launch in 2010 with StarCraft II and be incorporated into World of WarCraft. The biggest change is the introduction of what Blizzard is calling "Real ID" that should eliminate "smurfing" accounts and ensure better matchmaking. Games will be tied to a specific account much like Steam or other digital distribution services. Battle.net 2.0 will be free, however.

Pardo believes that the new matchmaking system is more powerful than Microsoft's TrueSkill and when paired with Real ID, it should help players of all skill levels get into games that they have a chance to win. On this point, the ladder system has been improved to take player skill into account. After a player completes around 10 games, they will be placed into a skill tier. Within each skill tier, the player is matched up with 99 other players in 100 player divisions. The focus of the season is on competing with these 99 other players with tournaments taking place at the end of each season between division leaders.
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VG247: Here we go again with another liveblog kiddos.

This time it's BlizzCon 2009.Be sure and come back to this space for the Opening Ceremony of BlizzCon, and maybe, just maybe we will hear more about the rumored Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft, updates on StarCraft II and Diablo III - and who knows - Blizzard may announce its secret MMO.One can only dream.
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Mike Fahey of Kotaku writes:

"Too excited to wait until I got back to my hotel, I grabbed a seat at a table outside of the Anaheim Convention Center and sorted through the contents of my BlizzCon 2009 swag bag."
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The doors just opened and the fans flooded in. We went by the Starcraft 2 gameplay stations and attendees have the option of playing...
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Russ Frushtick of MTV Multiplayer writes:

"Unfortunately not everyone is lucky enough to make the trip to Anaheim for BlizzCon 2009. Sure, you can buy one of the "digital passes," but that won't bring playable versions of "StarCraft 2" or "Diablo 3" into your home. Or will it? No, it won't. Sorry.

For you sad sacks, Blizzard has created "Failoc-alypse," a flash game which lets you kill marauding murlocs as one of three Blizzard IP characters: "Diablo 3"'s witch doctor, "StarCraft 2"'s Jim Raynor and "World of WarCraft"'s night elf."
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StarCraft II will be delayed to 2010, and the beta has a chance of getting delayed as well.

IncGamers.com reports on something that potentially will disappoint a lot of fans.
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Blizzard has released the 2009 Blizzcon schedule....
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Blizzard is developing StarCraft II with the patience and precision for which it's known, but just how great is the scope, breadth and time allotment for the project to be fully realized?

The task ahead of the developer -- releasing the game as a trilogy unprecedentedly integrated with the re-launching Battle.net service -- is intimidating. In a new Gamasutra feature, lead producer Chris Sigaty describes the complex issues of game balance and depth to which the developer must now attend, and he also illustrates just how far ahead Blizzard must look to the project's conclusion.

Blizzard is "definitely having conversations at this point" about expansion packs, says Sigaty. "We know the overarching story. We have certain points we know, but there are a lot of details to figure out," he says.
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Nick Breckon from ShackNews writes: Ever since Blizzard announced that it would be splitting the three StarCraft II campaigns into separate games, fans have been worried the studio will abandon its trend of $30 expansions and charge full price for the new games.

Producer Chris Sigaty responded to those concerns during a recent interview with Shacknews, telling us that the team is viewing the games as traditional Blizzard expansions, and not full sequels.

More after the jump.
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BrutalGamer.com writes:- Well, they MIGHT be..

News is hazy on this one but a statement made on the Warcraft forums has lead us to believe (and others) that both of Blizzard's upcoming titles (Starcraft II & Diablo 3) will be playable on the show floor at the even in Cologne.
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Since Blizzard originally announced that Starcraft 2 was not supporting LAN the gaming community has been in an uproar with petitions reaching almost 100,000 signatures. There have been various articles taking different sides and others maintaining neutral such as Starcraft 2 and the LAN Controversy. Every gamer has their opinion, but where exactly do the boys in blue stand?

During the press conference in late July we were able to get some answers.
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