According to a Korean website, StarCraft 2 is being developed in 3D with a new race and lots of changes for existing units. The site went on to say that additional details would be revealed during Blizzard's WWI on May 19th in Seoul.
When reached for comment today this was Blizzard's official response:
"We do intend to announce a new product at the Worldwide Invitational next month in Korea, and we appreciate the enthusiasm and interest in getting an advance look at what that will be, but players will have to wait until May 19th to find out more. Also, 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, but we don't have anything new to announce in that regard at present."
i read somewhere recently that it was going to be an mmo. not sure what kind yet but what it if it's an mmorts. blizzard are mostly known for taking a tried and true formula and making it better but if they could make an mmorts work well that would be pretty awesome.
Yeah that news is a couple weeks old Evil, but since then it has been revealed that their upcoming title announcement revolving around the StarCraft universe will more than likely be an MMO, not an RTS sequel.
Starcraft 2 RTS, Seems to be official now [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXoekeDIW8[/media]
Video opened with transformation from prisoner to Terran marine - The game is CONFIRMED - Minerals and vespine gas are confirmed - Zealots still have shields and psi blades. New charge attack to let them rush at enemies - Still have Siege Tanks. They still Siege. Not much else to say - New unit: Protoss Immortals - have special shield that only activates upon being powerfully attacked - siege tanks could barely do any damage to them. - Terran reapers - can hop across unever terrain with jump packs - two types of small pistols that don't activate immortals - Protoss now have the ability to create shields whereever they want. Protoss can now warp in units from manufacturing facilities anything within pylon range -New protoss unit - stalker - can teleport - quadripedal thing - can keep blinking forward - seems to be a shot cooldown on the ability. - Zerg have giant worms that dispense Zergling armies -Protoss can use phase fields and teleporting abilities to create an army anywhere on the battlefield -Protoss colossus - huge unit that can blast out dual lasers and use long legs to traverse differences in terrain height - in the demo two of them obliterate about fifty or so zerglings. Weak against air Zerglings can mutate into suicidal bomb things thar roll across the ground - very powerful explosions - Protoss Pheonix - can overcharge guns for multiple projectile blast - but after blast the ship is rendered inert for a short period. - Pross Warprey - flying unit that does increased damage the longer it hits a target with it's continuous blue laser. Useful against structures as well. Weak against small fire. Marines were shown to take them out. - Protoss mother ship. Can only have 1 at a time. Cost a ton. special abilities include timebomb that slows all enemy missiles inside - shows terran missle launcher shooting in projectiles that stop in the field before they reach the ship - when field ends missiles drop the ground - planet cracker attack - giant lasers stream from ship to ground - ship can be moved around while planet cracker laser is active - the ship looks like a metallic, triangular sand dollar - mothership can create a black hole anywhere it wannts to - creates distortion that actually sucks ships in and destroys them - in the demo the black hole destroyed four terran battle cruisers in about ten seconds. - Physics engine allows for debris to roll down slopes. - Video ends with 100+ Zerglings swarming on screen with no slowdown. They spell out "GG" and are nuked by 3 Terran nukes. - A Things to Come clip is shown with new landscapes including Terran ruins and Zerg landscapes.