SC2 & COD7 Release dates
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4 May 2010, 11:25
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Starcraft 2 has been in private beta for a couple of months now and is finally ready for shipping! The Blizzard CEO has stated July 27th will be the release date for the anxiously awaited sequel. Blizzard stated:
""We've been looking forward to revisiting the StarCraft universe for many years, and we're excited that the time for that is almost here," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "Thanks to our beta testers, we're making great progress on the final stages of development, and we'll be ready to welcome players all over the world to StarCraft II and the new Battle.net(R) in just a few months."
The beta has been welcomed widely by those playing it, with many old Starcraft players and eSports fans lapping up the sequel as opposed to many FPS sequels which have fallen on deaf ears. The game however is unlikely to be welcomed by the Korean Starcraft Pro's - due to ongoing arguments with KeSPa, Blizzard has not issued the organisation with a license for Starcraft 2 and as such both its leagues and the countries top teams and players will not playing it.
Activision may be getting sued by former infinity ward workers due to unpaid royalties, but the company still has other eggs on the Call of Duty stove and plans to release installment number seven this winter.
The game titled, Call of Duty Black Ops developed by Treyarch will be released on the 9th of November this year and follows on with Activisions promise to publish a new CoD game each year. Players take the role of a Black Ops operative who will be involved in missions behind enemy lines. Missions will take place in a variety of locations, including Cuba, the Arctic, and Vietnam. You can watch the trailer here
:( shame but im sure it can be sorted out, would be kudos for Blizzard to have their new SC game accepted by the biggest scene for it
well most FPS sequels have been crappy.....just look at ETQW, Wolfenstein 2k9, MW2, UT3... CounterStrike Source and Team Fortress 2 have gone down pretty well because they (like SC2) have stayed fairly true to the original ideas & structure behind them
play sc2 pub and you won't see whine, go to teamliquid and well... ET community has seen nothing like it
>true to the original ideas
partial credit for saying 'fairly' but :E
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NOT!
No one will leave CoD4 competitively for a sequel unless they remove the server hosting joke they seem to want to implement on the series now. the SP are always nice anyway so Im happy they are releasing it, not that I will likely buy it ;)