The original StarCraft is one of the best games I have ever played in my life. Having been a fan of Warcraft since the early-mid 90’s, ever since I first played Tides of Darkness, I had always thought of StarCraft as the next step in evolution, as the pinnacle of the genre up to that point. I joke from time to time that it’s the game that ended my college career, and while that’s not true in the least, I sure did play it a hell of a ton.

When I first read on the World of Warcraft launcher that StarCraft 2 was in the works, I damn near soiled myself with glee. For a while, SC2 was one of those “rumors you wished would come true”, kind of like Duke Nukem Forever (sorry 3D Realms, but seriously, get your shit together). Now it’s actually in the works. If you’d like to take a look at how it’s shaping up, may I direct you to this clip, which is located at wegame.com:

http://www.wegame.com/watch/Starcraft_II_Terran_Demo_part_1/
(The user who posted these, Starfeeder, has a few other clips up that show some more of the content)

If you haven’t heard about WeGame, think of it as the Youtube of recorded games. I’d only heard of it myself a few days ago, and from what I’ve seen so far it’s pretty cool. So far I’ve watched some folks show off their Half-Life 2 mods, seen some pretty ridiculous Counterstrike kills, and have watched a hysterically funny World of Warcraft machinima called “Inventing Swear Words” about a tauren who marries an undead. Genius.

On a completely unrelated note, I ordered myself a new desktop last weekend, and it should be delivered by Tuesday. I’m really looking forward to having a more powerful desktop, splitting my display across two monitors, and all the fun little dev tools that I’ll be installing. That also means that I believe the game project will be picking back up. Victory for me.