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We’re not trying to be innovative," says StarCraft II design director Dustin Browder when confronted with criticism that the anticipated real-time strategy title’s multiplayer gameplay has not sufficiently evolved since its predecessor’s 1998 release.

"We’re not trying to change for change’s sake," Browder told Gamasutra as part of a larger forthcoming interview. "We’re just trying to make quality, and we definitely felt there were some things in the previous game that were high quality, that we weren’t super confident we could do much better."

For example, he added, "I don’t have a lot of enthusiasm to make Siege Tank 2.0. Siege Tank is good."

Blizzard has released a new cinematic trailer from StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

Two new StarCraft II single player gameplay videos have been released, previewing some of the new missions players will undertake.

Jim Raynor has fallen on hard times and is gathering ancient artefacts and Terrazine gas for a mysterious employer just to pay his crew and keep fighting the Dominion’s tyrannical leader, Emperor Arcturus Mengsk.

Patch 9, which has been greatly anticipated comes with achievements, decals, friends upgrades and a new flashy map editor.

Kotaku: "The game of StarCraft is kind of a big deal in Korea, the country in which Blizzard opted to announce the highly anticipated StarCraft II in May of 2007. Shame, then, that the PC game has been rated adults only."

GamerZines: Remember that Starcraft II petition we reported on last year which only had around 3,000 supporters? Well, it has swelled a bit since then with the signatures numbering close to a quarter of a million.

249,074 people want Blizzard to put LAN support back into Starcraft II – at time of writing – with the first part of the sequel, Wings of Liberty, to be released over the coming months.

StarCraft II has not even broken free from beta yet and we now get a look at how Blizzard will pillage your wallets.  StarCraft II will be getting a badass Collector’s Edition.  What makes this Collector’s Edition worth your hard earned money?  Take a look at all the awesome packed into one little package:

• The Art of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a 176-page book featuring artwork from the game
• An exclusive 2GB USB flash drive replica of Jim Raynor’s dog tag, which comes preloaded with the original StarCraft and the StarCraft: Brood War(R) expansion set
• A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, cinematics with director’s commentary, and more
• The official StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty soundtrack CD, containing 14 epic tracks from the game along with exclusive bonus tracks
• StarCraft comic book issue #0, a prequel to the comic series
• A World of Warcraft(R) mini Thor in-game pet that can be applied to all World of Warcraft characters on a single Battle.net account
• Exclusive Battle.net downloadable content, including special portraits for your Battle.net profile, decals to customize your units in-game, and a visually unique version of the terran Thor unit

Not to shabby for $100.  In fact, this just might be one of the best Collector’s Editions we have saw to date.  Take note that the regular edition of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will run you $60.  There is still no release date either.  Blizzard is so evil in their foreplay.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

Blizzard revealed today that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will be getting its own fancy pants Collector’s Edition. They’ve also revealed that the Standard Edition will be priced higher than usual.

Blizzard Entertainment is giving away StarCraft II Beta keys at their Facebook. These keys are going fast, but new ones are posted every few hours.

DualShockers writes: "Starcraft II, Diablo III, Gran Turismo 5, Final Fantasy XIII – what do all these games have in common? I feel the development and/or release of these game have taken way too long. Now, before you jump to conclusions about what I just said, let’s clear something up – I’m not a fanboy; I don’t feel they’ve taken too long because I want the game now and nothing later than now will suffice. No, I feel games like these take more time than is really needed in development or in the release process. Let me tell you a little story."