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 Form a line, folks. No pushing. Lo and behold, now you can pre-order StarCraft: Ghost from Best Buy and have it shipped to you on June 15. Or, for you masochistic types, you can snag it from Toys R Us and get it in August.

What gives? Maybe the fact that StarCraft: Ghost is Blizzard's vaporware extraordinaire and has been indefinitely postponed since March of last year. Furthermore, it's nowhere to be found on Blizzard's official list o' games.

So, is Blizzard just going to covertly release a sequel to (arguably) the most cherished RTS franchises ever created? Doubtful. More likely, some intern is going to be fired for this faux pas. On the other hand, this is one situation in which I would be more than happy to cram both feet into my mouth. I swear they would fit. Make it happen, Blizzard!

[Thanks Kennigit!]








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gamehunter101's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 17:53
gamehunter101
very nice
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 18:04
GuitarAtomik
I wonder if this has anything to do with that Blizzard announcement? That would be a little anti-climactic if that's what it was though.
Kennigit's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 18:04
Kennigit
You know the saddest part about this?
Toy's R Us notes that "Gift wrap is not available for this item."

Who the fuck do those people think they are kekekeke^^
brad drac's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 18:33
brad drac
Well it is quite hard to gift wrap things that have no tangible form. I wish it were true, but its release is about as likely as more than one atlus game being released in europe a year.
bobafettm's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 18:34
bobafettm
I'd be perfectly happy if this was what they were talking about for their BIG NEWS!... Ghost looked like a lot of fun back in 2002(?) when they first announced it! :)
Rainbowblack's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 18:47
Rainbowblack
this is less about covert release and more about being jewed by greedy businesses
cjpkiller's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 19:04
cjpkiller
*cum is now everywhere*
THIS is the game to be announced in korea...
FUCK YEAH
take that masterchief, Iz gotz psycotic powers!
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 19:11
Nick Chester
I played the Xbox version of this game and it surprisingly wasn't a huge pile of s**t. I'm not sure why anyone would care anymore, though, unless they can tie this in and hype it up along the inevitable OTHER Starcraft announcement.

I know nothing, so don't anyone go assuming I'm hinting at anything. Okay fine ... Starcraft Mobile Card Battler.
Lord Helmet's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 19:23
Lord Helmet
I'll believe it when I see it.

And knowing this game, I won't see it.

So I'll never believe it.
Tino's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 19:42
Tino
Shes a ghost. You wont notice the games out until you're supply depos have been nuked.
GatsuTheBerserker's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 20:08
GatsuTheBerserker
HOLY FUCKING LAMA SHIT! If this is true I will sacrifice a goat for a preorder.
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 20:09
Bob Muir
Wow, and I was just lamenting this game's cancellation last week with a friend. We both rewatched the footage and were really disappointed we'd never get to play a near-complete game. I shouldn't get my hopes up again, but I always like to pray for those seemingly-never-released games. (I'm rooting for you, Metroid Dread!)
masamunecyrus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 20:50
masamunecyrus
I wouldn't say make it happen.I played this game at GenCon '05 and it sucked. Badly.
TurboHyperFighting's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/12/2007 22:31
TurboHyperFighting
Hrm.... I'm extremely skeptical about this. Seems like someone here would have heard about it's continued development.


/also shenanigans
DrRockso's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2007 00:34
DrRockso
Interesting. Particularly June date.

Several sites with 'reliable sources' have the new game pegged as a Starcraft MMO. But who cares. They arent the Dtoid.
TheRob91's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2007 00:43
TheRob91
Fuck all of this random leakage shit, Im just gonna wait for the OFFICIAL announcement in a few days before I think about Blizzard games again. Except for possibly playing SC in the meantime.
verkon's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2007 06:11
verkon
Man, hope this is true. Felt like blizz failed me when they postponed it.
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2007 09:42
TheStripe
Wasn't this supposed to be for the N64?
Joseph Leray's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2007 09:46
Joseph Leray
That new Starcraft game hasn't even been totally announced yet -- there's no way it'll be released this year. That game might actually be made, but this is shenanigans.
Twentytwo's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2007 09:54
Twentytwo
I work at Best Buy and I just checked our system -- the only skus I have for Starcraft: Ghost are "used" XBox, PS2 and Gamecube versions of this game. The instock date is 9/01/2005 and the outstock date is 9/01/2015. I'm calling BS on this. We don't even have a pre-order sku in the system -- the pre-order sku on bestbuy.com is not valid.
arkracer's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2007 09:58
arkracer
I want to make a witty pun about the name being starcraft: vapour and it being ghostware... But I won't.
MrHappySunshine's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/14/2007 16:27
MrHappySunshine
Or maybe this is the game they are going to announce on blizzards site anyone checked out blizzard.com front page lately?
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