From the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Seoul, Korea comes the announcement of StarCraft 2. Needless to say there's probably a handful of people excited about this around the place. There's no official release yet or screenshots or anything, but IGN have a man on the ground giving updates as they come in. I guess there'll be a press release a bit later so stay tuned.

Props to Crakaveli for the breaking news.

Update: YouTube shakycam.

Update #2: The official site is up and we've got local copies of the screenshots, the artwork trailer and the cinematic trailer!

Crakaveli, sorry dude I accidentally blew away your post trying to promote it and add some info, I suck at the internets.

I'm so happy right now...woot!

Can't wait to see it in action.

:D

Reserving post on first page of epic thread.

EDIT: First ever screenies of Starcraft 2 HERE!

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Diablo 3 would have been a better game, they just want to sell millions of copies to the koreans.

This is great news... Have been playing the other one for years and years...(sad I know) so cant wait for it to come out

this is truly epic.

Crakaveli, sorry dude I accidentally blew away your post trying to promote it and add some info, I suck at the internets.

Lol np's. At least i got props ;)

Epic thread for the most epic game of all time.

Can't wait to see all the Korean proleague players adapt new strategies.

Zerg rush?

!!!!

Thank god it didn't turn out to be an MMO afterall!

Hm, going by the pictures it seems that the game might be fairly close to beta stages already.. Which would mean a release date within the next 12 months (you'd hope!).

goody

looks like same units, different graphics

Wasn't the last starcraft infamous for it's delays?

Wasn't the last starcraft infamous for it's delays?

Pretty much all Blizzard games are.

"Real men drill deep"

This product has my official seal of approval!

Awesome, just awesome.

Which would mean a release date within the next 12 months (you'd hope!).

Hahahaha! Oh man, thats a good one, thanks, I needed a laugh.

i was expecting uber graphics but the pics look like bleh.

Any QGLers want to play some 4 vs 4 Starcraft?

i was expecting uber graphics but the pics look like bleh.

You don't get it do you?

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does anyone know what the guy said at the end of that teaser vid?

You don't get it do you?

what is there to "get" exactly?

He says "It has finally come"

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/zerg.gif

Damn, youtube video keeps cutting out half way through :((((((((( NEED TO WATCH

gameplay vid

ok between that last youtude vid and transformers trailer i think i came in my pants twice this week

HOLY FARK!!! That video was beyond awesome!!!

ARGH!!!

i love the aswesome strat in the vid: pile in all your units to a firefight.

i didn't even understand wtf was going on there.

Best news ever!

updated news post with links to official screenz and movies

No, he says "Hell, it's about time"

Yeah, that sounds better, I really had no idea what he said, I was just repeating what I read in the youtube comments, which is hardly a reliable source :P

First screeny from Ausgamers has many, many zergs. The zerg rush LIVES!

All that stuff already on the site is amazing, check out the Protoss unit profiles and animations. Best kept secret ever :]

More gameplay, first person this time.

I wonder if there will be a new race?

And I wish to hell I knew where my old copy of Starcraft was!!!

You don't get it do you?

I reckon...

Sweet jesus that looks nice. Blizzard rock extremely hard when it comes to gaming.

8-)

edit: all good now

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i always loved starcraft and am so glad #2 is finaly on its way. it looks incredible for an rts game (company of heroes was nice, but quite meh to me) and after watching some of the vids posted it will be huge. blizzard sure know how to make an epic rts game

Well this means GPG can't make a Supreme Commander 2 without the acronyms getting very confusing :(

Woo more than 12 units per group, and being able to navigate ground units across multiple levels of terrain

We can only hope they don't make Supreme Commander 2, I'm still trying to recover from the disaster that was the first one.

also that dash the zealots have is so awesome looking. i think this is 1 game i will want a limited edition copy of if they decide to make one

my mind is boggling with creative ways in which to put together the dosh needed to upgrade for this game...


and even more to ensure thr Mrs never finds out :P

koopz, I recon we have 12 months or so until release, so that should give you plenty of time to upgrade stealthily.

The game will be compatible with DirectX 10, and we're still considering whether there will be exclusive DirectX 10 graphic effects, but the graphics engine will also be very scalable to ensure that a wide range of different systems will be capable of running StarCraft II. The new engine is also capable of rendering very large units, as well as large numbers of units on screen together. Havok physics have been integrated into the engine for added realism as well.

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Now, my next hope is they integrate this fancy new DX10 renderer and havoc physics into the next WoW expansion :P

looks like same units, different graphics

Er, if you looked at the site you'd find that they've changed at least 3 out of 4 Protoss units. Possibly subject to Blizzard's traditional rep-con.

No WoS, I called it :P

Overall I'm impressed with their little gameplay vid. Sexy, smooth, fast graphics that are up to date. Just what the original SC was. What more could anybody want? All I think they need is to add a gritty, rough sort of feel to the game to give a scrappy sort of "struggle for survival in a rough, uforgiving universe" feel.

Pretty much pure awesome. Been a long time coming and it looks pretty solid.

You can bet that they will follow with a World of StarCraft game not long after this releases. This sorta smacks of the War3 : WoW progression.

Cass nera dact!!

My god I really hope blizzard doesn't disappoint.

:D

this is awesome news!

looks better in motion

Agreed completely, the story in this will just be to tie things together for a WoS game.
On a side note, it's great to see some kickass PC titles around the corner, personally i thought things were looking a bit grim. With SC2 & TF2 i'm getting excited.
What ever happened to Bullfrog? I'd love a Dungeon Keeper 3? Do i hear an Amen?

Bullfrog hasn't existed for ages, the closest thing to Bullfrog these days would be Lionhead because it still has Peter Molyneux at the helm. The Movies, to me, felt like it could have been a Bullfrog game. Stuff Dungeon Keeper though, give us another Syndicate game!

Overlord.
http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/781/781498p1.html

Hoping this might be worth a look

Diablo series was made by Blizard north ... they have dispersed into 3 other companies including the guys making Hellgate London.

zzz if only auran took this approach to dark reign 2, fk they killed that game :\

Stuff Dungeon Keeper though, give us another Syndicate game!

f***ing agreed.

You can bet that they will follow with a World of StarCraft game not long after this releases

i hope not... WoW was addictive enough.....

zzz if only auran took this approach to dark reign 2, fk they killed that game :\

Dark Reign 2 was Pandemic, not Auran.

!!!!!! cant wait for this!

MT is reforming! :)

starcraft sucked and so will starcraft 2.

please guys, don't feed the trolls :)

someone will

I guarantee it will be better than Deus Ex 2.

Remember back in the day the argument was which RTS was better, TA or SC. Well we know who won that title!


TA OF COURSE@@

/bait

LOL, now it will be TA2 (i.e. Supreme Commander) vs SC2...

Who cares, Warcraft II/III are better anyway.

/doublebait

And Quake is better than Unreal.

Official HD Gameplay vid is up.

mirroring, f*** the blizzard downloader is s***. In case you ever thought it was just your connection, I'm running it on a gigabit link and I'm getting 100k/s and have been for ages.

You might want to try one of the servers on gamershell, I'm waiting for the iiNet link to pop up on there.

how do i get one of those trog? i need to get my ping down in wow..

Stuff Dungeon Keeper though, give us another Syndicate game!


f***ing agreed.

Amen. They were f***in rad games,

Also everyone not working at blizzard involved in FMV production should kill themselves. You will never be as good. I really wish they would make a CG movie.

http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20070521

Lawlz

I found my old Starcraft and Broodwars disks and installed them (amazed they worked with Vista to be honest) but god I was disapointed with it. It was just like when I tried the 10th anniversary edition of C&C, the graphics (when compared to todays standards) just sucked ass.

in 10 years compare starcraft 2 with their today's standards, and it will just suck ass too...

moral of the story is don't eat half baked potato's

Mmmmm, half baked potatoes....

watched the hd preview. looks rad

Interview with Blizzard on SC2 - good read and it released some juicy info.

it will definitely be interesting to see how all those units balance out.

I still think they should have added a fourth race, oh well!

they could be adding one anyway and it hasn't been said yet ... is that possible?

im fairly sure i read somewhere that it will be just the 3 original races. how fkn unbalanced does that protos mothership look, fkn stupid black hole, kill everything...

gameplay vid looks awesome! i long for combat.

im running through starcraft and brood wars atm to refresh the story in my mind, 640x480 goodness :D

how fkn unbalanced does that protos mothership look

Cry more.

SC is still a great RTS game, the only thing that lets it down is the graphics, which is understandable for a game that's 10 years old.

The only thing that would make SC2 SUCK is if they charged for multiplayer in any way shape or form.

Which they surely won't.

Blizzard has never been in the business of sucking money out of people.

wat about wow....

oh, do they charge for that?

yea u buy the game, then gotta pay per month. they get ya.

What is "wow"? Does it have something to do with Vista?

how fkn unbalanced does that protos mothership look

At first there was a lot of unbalanced issues in Starcraft, actually till BroodWar it was very unbalanced.

Though in the end Blizzard worked it out to a tee. If you watch the various Korean proleagues, you see how ingenious some of the players utilize each race/unit. On any given day, a Zerg/Terran/Protoss can be champion.

Maybe I'm being optimistic, but I have a feeling Blizzard will REALLY balance this one out. Considering the professional Korean players will instantly jump on any unfair races, units, strategies, maps ect. ect. something that didn't happen at the start of the last SC (because the massive fanbase wasn't there).

I hope they put exploding critters in again ... =P

i concur

how fkn unbalanced does that protos mothership look

They said in the video that they were cheating with it - if you look closely you'll see it has unlimited energy pretty much. It wouldn't have been able to pull off the crazy s*** it did in a real game. You can also only have one at a time, so you won't see a Mothership rush anytime soon :)

Given that we've only seen one sides' ultimate unit and only a smidgin of what the others are doing its really hard to say if Protoss is unbalanced or not. I can see all sorts of sneaky peon line pwnage coming out of the Raider's ability to jump in and out of raised terrain.

If you remember, SC 1.0 was pretty unbalanced, Reaver drops were pretty dominant as well as zergling rushes. Psi-storm needed tweaking, and everyone thought that stimpacked marines + medics would be overkill but that worked out ok.

They'll likely need to tweak SC2 as well after release. The only real way to know if there are abilities that are out of cotrol is see what happens when the public gets hold of em.

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so.. some guy over in NZ who works for our company reckons he's got sc2 already.....

i believe him

i think he's full of s***.. but thats just my opinion...

you're a f***ing idiot