New Starcraft II Release Date?

Gamers get ready to do a little fist pumping. Gamestop has leaked the release date for Blizzard's Starcraft II, and it looks like it will be coming out a full 6 months earlier than the last release date rumor we heard.

You may now commence celebrating.



The information comes from a GameStop flyer that promotes upcoming games and encourages customers to preorder. And, whaddyaknow, Starcraft II shows up on the list with a June 2 release date. Either this is legit, or GameStop has one ENORMOUS typo to take care of on their flyers.

While this certainly does look like reliable information, we have to remember that there is no official word from Blizzard, and this isn't even close to the date in the other release rumors we mentioned above. We've certainly been hearing enough about Starcraft II playtesting and tweaking to indicate that the game is almost ready. And since Blizzard has decided to split it up into three chapters, the first installment should probably be pretty close to release. We'll have to keep our ears open to see if Blizzard even acknowledges the GameStop flyer.

Either way, the waiting game for Starcraft II just became even more unbearable. Please, somebody just give me some Marauders. If this release date doesn't turn out to be true I might have to enroll in UC Berkeley's Starcraft course to tide me over.

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