Let me start off with Blizzard. Tomorrow is the 19th. The significance? Well, as seen in my last post, it is the date that many believe to be the announcement of Starcraft 2. Blizzard is quoted as saying the announcement will be a “massive surprise.” This quote makes me wonder if Starcraft 2 is truly going to be announced or not - if it is the surprise is lost. I doubt the announcement will involve a new MMO, because Blizzard wouldn’t want to hinder World of Warcraft, Blizzard has already said the announcement won’t involve the Warcraft series, and the Diablo 3 web domain isn’t owned by Blizzard (they would buy it if they were releasing D3). This leaves Starcraft, or a new game.

“…we have a very strong connection with the characters and settings of StarCraft, and we do plan to revisit that universe at some point in the future…” -Blizzard

Also, Blizzard put a teaser page up on their site on Monday. It is a timeline detailing their history of games.

Now, I’d also like to mention the recent Engadget post about the iPhone and Leopard being “pushed back.” I didn’t catch the post until after the email had been dubbed false, but the effect Engadget’s announcement had on Apple’s stock was incredible. The post led to over $4 billion dollars of Apple stock being dumped in six minutes. The stock has recovered by now, but the amount of money lost and gained must have been massive. The power of the media in any form is astounding.

EDIT: Figured I’d note that I am hoping for the release of Starcraft 2. As I said last time, Starcraft was the first game to hook me to PC games and is only rivaled by Unreal Tournament and maybe Counter-Strike.