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On Friday, Blizzard Entertainment revealed that open testing for their Starcraft II will begin on March 29th in mainland China. This marks the latest step for World of Warcraft house Blizzard in bringing its next major release to the burgeoning Chinese online gaming market.

Multiplayers modes in the game will be made accessible for free. NetEase, the World of Warcraft operator, have teamed up with Blizzard to bring StarCraft II to China. A firm launch date for the release in China has not yet been revealed though.

Last year, 1.5 million units of the game were sold worldwide. Mike Morhaime, CEO of Blizzard said, “We’ve been continuing to balance and make improvements to the game since its global release last July, and we think Chinese players will agree that StarCraft II has been worth the wait”.

Adding to this, NetEase CEO William Ding stated, “The original StarCraft is considered to be one of the classic real-time strategy games, which are highly popular among Chinese players, and we believe that StarCraft II will bring even more exciting competitive action to the Chinese gaming community.”

Let’s hope it all goes well for the game in China.

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i think the game would be successful in china.. and whoa! the graphics are awesome!


congrats china!!! hope the fan enjoy it :D
thanks for sharing


In Mainland China? Wow, that’s a major step for Blizzard...well, they already dominated in Korea, so that shouldn’t be that big of a surprise.


fans in china must be happy about this :D
thanks for sharing!~


China is a big market...good move


Thanks for sharing.
The Chinese fans are going to LOVE this raspberry
I want SC2 raspberry


great for China fans!
Thanks for sharing smile


haha, wow, that is pretty awesome! smile Definitely worth the wait, I think it’ll go well in China smile



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