For years now, Starcraft players have complained about players from other regions playing on North American servers (West more often than not).  This was criticized as leading to teammates not speaking a common language, and pings being particularily high. Blizzard has announced that they will encourage cross server play, stating: North American Server Access for Southeast Asia/Australia/New ... more.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that they earned a 12+ rating in Korea, and that unlike World Of Warcraft, that in game content would not be sold in SC2. All in all, some pretty good news.... more.

A new blizzard transcript indicates some major beta changes, including the removal of public chat in Battle.net.  Additionally, Battle.net rankings will be outputted to the web. Q&A: The Following Q&A is with Robert Bridenbecker, VP of Online Technology.   It took place on March 4th. Q : There are currently hacks out there for single player and multiplayer is in danger too. Are yo... more.