StarCraft II getting global online play

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Players can create new profiles for each multiplayer region

StarCraft II has been an international real-time strategy phenomenon since its launch, but you wouldn't know that by its multiplayer. Fortunately, Blizzard announced today it will lift regional lockdowns for the game "in coming months," allowing all players to create profiles in regions outside of their home.

Blizzard noted profiles can be easily selected from the login screen, and the game menu and interface will remain in the user's native language throughout the process. Players may be able to access other regions while their own is offline for maintenance, and may even see maps and modes which are not yet available worldwide.

It seems safe to assume Heart of the Swarm, which is tentatively set for the first half of 2013, will launch with global play.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.