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A number of people already participating in the beta have received an additional beta key which allows them to invite a friend.

Short quote of the e-mail:

"Congratulations! This is an additional invitation to the beta test for Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft® II: Wings of Liberty for you to share with a friend! You are receiving this email because you are currently participating in the StarCraft II beta test, and we want to encourage you to test out some of the social features of the revamped Battle.net® online-gaming service by inviting one of your friends to play with you."

GCO: "It seems that video game developers and publishers, after a bit of an hiatus, are beginning to "re-open support" to Apple’s operating system, Blizzard reveals that a beta for StarCraft II is in the advance stages of development and that they do plan to release the beta next month on Mac operating systems."

StarCraft 2 Lead Developers Dustin Browder and Chris Sigaty talked to the fans the other night, discussing both their current plans as well as revealing some new stuff that will be available for beta as well as launch and post-launch.

Among other things, the game will be tutorialrific, if there’s such a word. Loads of guides for new players planned.

Currently a small amount of lucky gamers are participating in StarCraft II’s beta. Unfortunately for the players who didn’t get in, Blizzard intends to keep the beta a very exclusive event.

A few days ago, Dustin Browder told VG247 their goal is to maintain a flow of 10,000 beta testers, and they don’t have them yet. Even if that was the case, if the numbers go down due to some people not login to play, they might invite more people.

This is not a given, however.

On the other hand, Blizzard have promised other way to get beta keys.

Blizzard’s confirmed to VG247 that Starcraft II will receive a day one patch when it releases in the first half of this year.

Speaking with Patrick Garratt in an interview just published today, the game’s lead designer, Dustin Browder, said the patch would be "required".

Many reports revealed the latest NVIDIA 196.75 graphic drivers have caused computers and graphic cards to die while playing StarCraft II Beta. A Blizzard Entertainment tech support representative has confirmed these drivers are causing the fans control to not work properly thus causing graphic cards and PC computers to overheat.

The recommendation is to uninstall the latest NVIDIA drivers released a few days ago, and to downgrade to the previous drivers until a new driver fix is deployed.

The StarCraft II beta Battle.net matchmaking settings have been turned away from skill level matching to quick matching, StarCraft: IncGamers reports.

Blizzard announced to fans that "the Find Match functionality is currently configured to find games more quickly, rather than find evenly matched games." The idea is likely to get more games going to let the developer get a better statistical overview of unit balance.

Over the weekend the StarCraft 2 Beta client was patched again. This time it seems Terrans have been buffed, some Zerg nerfage, and a little crawling around among the zerg without much content.

If you were trying to log in and play SCII Beta today, you probably noticed that battle.net wouldn’t let you log in for a bit. This was actually the result of SCII Beta’s first patch, which was released a bit earlier…