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If StarCraft 2 doesn’t outsell Modern Warfare 2 worldwide, I’m going to be very disappointed in you Internet…

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

“Take a left at the Orc statue, then go straight to check in at the reception desk,” says the Blizzard security officer at the entrance gate to the infamous Blizzard Campus. That’s probably the only time I’ll ever have a security guard give me directions with an Orc statue as a landmark. Needless to say, I know I’m at the right place. This is my first time to Blizzard, and my first time to try out the single-player campaign of the upcoming Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, so I finally have a chance to ask Chris Sigaty, Lead Producer on Starcraft 2, the one burning question on my mind: What took so long?

“It wasn’t until we were done with the Warcraft 3 expansion in 2003 that we had a chance to even start looking this way. World of WarCraft came out and a lot of resources went into that to help it accomplish all that it has done, which has been great; whole teams were brought into that game at certain times. We also wanted to define exactly what StarCraft 2 is. We wanted to hearken to the legacy of the multiplayer game but also be able to bring a lot into [StarCraft 2] as well. It took us a while to settle on the campaign and ultimately what it was; we knew we wanted to do something new, so hopefully people will be blown away by it.”

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.

The Blizzard Pet Store is offering two new virtual pets to World of Warcraft players today, one of which has generated over $2 million in sales in its first four hours.

The “Celestial Steed” (right) is, according to its description on the Blizzard Store, “freshly born from the Twisting Nether” and allows players to “travel in style astride wings of pure elemental stardust.”

More research is of course necessary but as of press time, it is widely believed that the Celestial Steed may be the fanciest horse ever born.

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.

The Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty beta was updated with patch # 6 which fixes several bugs, and issues race balance by increasing and decreasing build times and costs of certain units and buildings.

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."

PS Uni writes: "You didn’t think Sony’s 2010 ended with Heavy Rain, God of War III and Gran Turismo 5 did you? The company reportedly has a number of games hidden in the wings, most likely awaiting their time in the spotlight at E3."

Blizzard announced Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty will be shipped and offer tech support in Italian and Polish languages.

New Forums, Facebook and Twitter pages have been localized to build up Italian and Polish communities.