BETA Released!

starcraft2.com - February 18, 2010

After long years of waiting and many periods of delaying, the Starcraft 2 BETA has been officially released! As of now, there are only around 2000 players in it, but expect to see lots of BETA footage to appease your lust to see the game. Those who were lucky enough to receive a BETA key, post your videos for all to see! Thanks!

New Battle.net revealed!

Battle.net - February 10, 2010

And the news come rolling along!

Head onto the Blizzard's Starcraft 2 site for some new information about the new Battle.net system that will be employed with the Starcraft 2 release. Furthermore, in Activision's conference call today, they announced that Blizzard's Starcraft 2 will be released mid-2010 along with the revamped battle.net system. Also, as Starcraft2forums.org pointed out, Mike Morhaime also happened to announce in the meeting that the Starcraft 2 beta will be announced THIS February! Hope they don't miss out on this deadline!

StarCraft 2 Sees Additional Language Support

Battle.net - January 20, 2010

We are happy to announce that we have added a new language to our StarCraft II site. Italian speakers can now check out the latest news about StarCraft II in their own language. We have also added a landing page for our Polish community which will be expanded upon in the near future. In addition to translating the site into these two languages, we will also be releasing StarCraft II itself in Italian and Polish! Take a moment to check out the new StarCraft II sites and the new Battle.net forums for Italian, Polish, and Russian speakers!

Italian website: http://eu.starcraft2.com/index.xml?locale=it_it
Polish splash page: http://eu.starcraft2.com/index.xml?locale=pl_pl
Italian media alert: http://eu.blizzard.com/it-it/company/press/pressreleases.html?100120
Polish media alert: http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/press/pressreleases.html?100120pl

Additionally we received info from X answering a question whether or not we will be able to swap between langauges in-game:

First of all, we are of course also localizing in Russian, since this has been announced from the beginning, you can check out the Russian site here: http://eu.starcraft2.com/index.xml?locale=ru_ru
We have also added russian forums today (http://forums.battle.net/index.html?sid=3007) as well as Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/StarCraftRU) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/starcraft_ru) pages that will soon fill up with more content.

Concerning switching between languages, to start off you will have the language of the box that you purchase. We are planning on releasing language packs at some point, but this will not be for release. We will get information on this to you most likely after release of StarCraft 2.