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12 years ago, a company by the name of Blizzard Entertainment took their first babysteps into what has now become a multi-million dollar industry, RTS gaming. RTS is short for real time strategy, where opponents are pitted against each other in real time, to determine who is the better player. 12 years ago, this was still a really new concept, which lead to a very interesting beta-stage and early development of the game. Fast forward to present time, and things are totally different. Gone are the days of slow hand speed, delayed thinking, and the overall casualness of gaming. This has been replaced with players who now have 10+ years of gaming under their belts, with mindsets capable of figuring out new mechanics, strategy, and concepts at a very alarming rate. All of this adds up to a much more tougher, competitive beta test filled with talented young individuals capable of bringing the RTS genre to the next level. Fame and Fortune!

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Just now Michael Morhaime (13:17PST) “announced” the Starcraft II Beta coming in this month!

Starcraft II beta testing ready to launch this month

The waiting is finally over. You can see it in this part of the conference (point •2-2). This means that we could expect the beta in a few days.

“We are slated to begin closed beta testing this month,” he said, explaining that the multiplayer test will be available to participants across various countries like North America,Taiwan,Europe and others.

It is done. Battle Report #4 was leaked a few hours ago. We have Yeon-Ho Lee against the famous David Kim. It is a Protoss versus Terran match on Lost Temple! That’s right. Lost Temple was remade for Starcraft II. The famous map for all Starcraft Players. I guess there is no need for further talk. Have fun watching the Battle Report. It is the best Battle Report so far.

You can watch it here.

Or download here.