Rather than fight the urge to spend the day playing StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, which launched today, the guys at iPhone developer shop Smule are giving into temptation and declaring today, July 27, 2010, StarCraft II Day.
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Work will be suspended at the company’s Palo Alto offices for the next two days so that employees can embrace their inner Zerg. If you visit the Smule website, you’ll see that a “day off” notice has replaced the splash page usually reserved for its apps, which include I Am T-Pain, Magic Piano and Glee.
StarCraft II is one of the most highly anticipated games of all time, with more than 800,000 pre-orders estimated in the Americas alone. The original StarCraft was released in 1998 and has sold more than 11 million copies.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first chapter in the sequel to one of the most wildly successful computer games of all time, went on sale today. It’s available in retail stores and as a digital download for Mac and Windows (Windows) computers.
Made by World of Warcraft (world of warcraft gold) creators Blizzard Entertainment, StarCraft II is a real-time strategy game set in a science fiction universe. Players direct military units with spectacular powers in story-driven, single-player campaigns, or against one another on Blizzard’s Battle.net social gaming service.
The first StarCraft was a major event for competitive multiplayer gaming back in 1998. It sold 11 million units and literally became a national spectator sport in South Korea, helping to create the Korean Internet cafe culture that has birthed many of the world’s most renowned online and social games.
Warcraft II Screenshot
Warcraft II Screenshot
The sequel will be released in three parts. The first, Wings of Liberty, launched today and includes the story of the Terrans, space marines exiled from Earth. Next, Heart of the Swarm will tell the story of the hivemind, insectoid Zerg, and the series will conclude with a noble psionic species called the Protoss in Legacy of the Void. Today’s launch drew long lines in cities all over the world.
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