Starcraft II special edition announced!


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Starcraft fans can rejoice at the booty on offer in the just revealed collector's pack. Plus: local servers announced for multiplayer!

First things first: while we now know what's in the box, we still don't know what date Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty will be released. Just wanted to cover that upfront before getting barraged with questions.

But what we do, is the level of awesomeness that's going to be included in the Collector's Edition of Wings of Liberty. Here's the bumpf:

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 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 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

Check out the pics of the Thor pet, art book, and Dogtag in our gallery!

And all that will set you back $149.95, while the standard edition will cost $99.95, and will be available for both Windows and Mac . We're fiendishly excited by some of that stuff - the USB stick sounds fantastic, and it's a known fact you can never have too many copies of Starcraft or Broodwar. The art book we're also expecting to be truly epic - if there's one thing Blizzard do even better than making games, it's making stunning art for those games.

At the same time, we've also learnt that Australian and New Zealand players will have access to regional servers hosted in Southeast Asia, alongside gamers from Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. Double-plus good.

Stay tuned for more news - the release date should be dropping in a couple of weeks...

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15 Comments

N3M3SiS Apr 9, 2010 10:54 AM	Fuck motherfucking yeah. Collectors edition to end all collectors editions! /looks forward to wearing a copy of Brood War around neck
Déta88 Apr 9, 2010 11:13 AM	hmmm it would be nice if they added a terran figurine to the collectors, but i doubt it, we talking about blizzard here
Takoma Apr 9, 2010 11:24 AM	Sweet Jesus, with three races, you're looking at a $450 game!
Hawkeye Apr 9, 2010 11:26 AM	Or, depending on how you look at it, a three-game series...
Krispy89 Apr 9, 2010 12:01 PM	sUpEr gEEk would be having a Heart Attack right about now :P
Gimp.exe Apr 9, 2010 2:03 PM	I'm so excited =D. That's cool that there is a mac version, because hopefully it will work on linux...yay! Also, anyone know what the ping from Australia to Southeast Asia is like?
Gimp.exe Apr 9, 2010 2:12 PM	OMG!. Perth is gonna have the best ping times in Australia... check out this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEA-ME-WE_3 . it goes from Perth>Indonesia>Singapore>Malaysia>Thailand This is so much pro'ness its crazy! i'm so lucky to be living in the lucky city =D anyone feel like moving to Perth now? xD
sUpEr gEEk Apr 9, 2010 6:54 PM	WTF 150 I AM SOOOOOOOOOO PRE ORDERING FUCK YEAH Hey Krisp why would I have a heart attack
Brissmas Apr 9, 2010 10:15 PM	That looks seriously good value for $150!
Gimp.exe Apr 9, 2010 10:32 PM	was $150 a typo? I've read about this on several other site, and they've got different prices.. "The standard edition will sell for a suggested retail price of $59.99 and [...] The special Collector's Edition package, which is priced at $99.99 [...]" - http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/press/pressreleases.html?100408 Even with USD -> AUD that doesn't work out to $150 AUD. man... we aussies are always getting ripped off. =C
brumby92 Apr 10, 2010 1:15 PM	we always have been gimp. games in US come out at about $50, while here its about $100
BulbStar Apr 11, 2010 12:14 PM	Getting this for sure!
sirtrancealot Apr 12, 2010 12:18 PM	wtb.. nuff said
sUpEr gEEk Apr 15, 2010 9:17 AM	Pre ordered yesterday
alexdtree May 4, 2010 11:22 AM	lol totally agree with N3M3SiS its worth the extra $50, im actually drooling over this haha

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