Kotaku is reporting that a source has informed them that the announcement of the new Blizzard title (whatever it turns out to be) will be coming at around 1 AM Pacific tomorrow. Coincidentally, it’s about the same time that the announcement will hit at WWI over in Korea.

Speculation still runs rampant over what it may be. Personally, I think we’re going to see a new Starcraft RTS. Why? Several things point to this…
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Right now, if you type in “Starcraft2.com” into your browser, it redirects you to a teaser site for Blizzard. The same thing happens if you type in any other Blizzard title, followed by “.com” which seems to indicate plans to build a future site for Starcraft 2. A very minor detail, but it’s still something to give all Starcraft fans hope that the sequel may actually see the light of day soon. It’s going to be hard to live up to the spectacular original, but I’ve still got high hopes.

As we await the big news from Korea this week about a potential Starcraft continuation those still playing the classic game will need to update to the newly released 1.15 patch.

1.15 is really a minor patch that addresses a vulture hack, some rally point exploits and problems with the Macintosh client but league organizers will be thrilled to see support for Starcraft leagues added in as well.

There can’t be too many more problems left for Blizzard to remedy can there? Starcraft is pushing a decade of life (only a slight exaggeration) but its admirable that the company is still supporting and fixing it. How many other companies are still doing that for games released in 1998?

Filefront’s hosted links: Starcraft 1.15 patch and Brood War 1.15 Patch