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StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty launch events spread across the globe

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 21st 2010 3:00PM

Blizzard is giving ravenous StarCraft 2 fans (that's ... all of you?) launch events in London, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Moscow, Singapore ... and a mystical place called the Fountain Valley in California. North American details are after the break, along with links detailing the international locations.
California details:

Fry's Electronics
10800 Kalama River Avenue
Fountain Valley, CA

Activities start at 9PM on July 26, which will include live music, developer Q&A and exhibition matches. The regular edition and collector's edition will go on sale at midnight for $60 and $100, respectively.

International events:

Source: Blizzard

Tags: Blizzard, Blizzard-Entertainment, Launch-Event, Launch-Party, pc, RTS, StarCraft, Starcraft-2

Reader Comments (22)

I'm already missing every convention I wanted to go to, so not missing this little shindig.

Still not liking PC games being around $60. :\

@Drake Lake Diablo II and WC3 were both at least $55-60 when they came out, I remember it clearly. This is not a new thing for Blizzard.

@JerrytheB I got Diablo 2 for $50 but don't worry, I'm not trying to start something so I won't say more. I just really hope we get something badass in the box like one of those huge manuals with backstory that were pretty awesome in older games.

@Drake Lake

Yeah WC3 was 60.

@Drake Lake
OMG the manual from the first game was amazing. When I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to play games on school-nights, but I would still get new games in the middle of the week, so I would have to vent my excitement by reading every word of the manual for every new game I got. Starcraft was by far the best of these, with an amazing backstory that instantly hooked me into the universe.

Strangely, I pre-download Starcraft 2 from Blizzard, and it comes with a PDF of the manual, so I'm reliving it all over again. Unfortunately it looks like more of a recap of the original game's events and Brood War. I don't think there's anything really substantive.

@Michelobius

I don't know man, Diablo had some very cool stuff lore wise in the manuals. But I'm very bias so take that with a grain of salt lol.

@Deschain
It's still Blizzard, so I don't doubt it, but I never played Diablo as a kid.

OMG I can't wait.

Great! Now all I have to do is grab my bike and go from Pennsylvania to Paris!

just imagine a hydralisk is chasing you down youll get there in a few days

If the game was at $50 and the Collector's was at $70, I would buy the collector's edition.

But for $60 and $100, even the normal edition of the game isn't worth it, I won't be buying until the price drop. As amazing as StarCraft is as a game, StarCraft II really isn't that much more than StarCraft 1 plus high definition graphics and battle.net/Real ID support.

@Kayvin Honestly I find that the only people who say SC2 is SC1 HD haven't actually played SC2. It's the best RTS I've played in ages.

@Kayvin

"Battle.net support" ?

I guess you forgot the original StarCraft was on Battle.net, too?

@Monkey D Luffy

Monkey, tell me how the hell you know what the story is considering the beta was multiplayer only and had no story at all?

@Kayvin

A game costs an extra 10 dollars, and you won't buy it out of some kind of misplaced principle. Even at the crappiest jobs 10 bucks is around one hour of work.

There's cheap, and then there's stupid. Pretty easy to see which category you fall into.

@Monkey D Luffy

The beta has no story....what the hell are you talking about?

And the first Starcraft had an awesome sci-fi setting and premise. Much more original and well executed than most of the sci fi shit you see out there.

@JerrytheB

The best RTS in at least 12 years since the original Starcraft came out, for sure.

Nobody out there does RTS like Blizzard anymore. Back in the 1990s there were a few other quality RTS games, but in the last decade or more they've been universally lame.

6!... 6 days until I give my life for Aiur! Ah Ha ha ha!

@Omnistatic

I concur.

Hey, we'll have Midnight Launch in Brazil too!

Shopping Morumbi - São Paulo/SP
Na loja da Saraiva

There you go :D

How come Brisbane: Australia isn't on that list. I happen to know there is a huge launch event going on there, with several producers of the game doing a Q&A session, plus competitions and other bits and pieces. They're expecting several thousand people to show up.

@Foetoid.

http://starcraft2.ebgames.com.au/

I pre-ordered today and am also going. I am so psyched we are finally getting a huge launch in Brisbane instead of Sydney or Melbourne!

Yay!

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