Blizzard's StarCraft II Closed Beta Begins
Gamers who signed up to participate in the StarCraft II beta should keep an eye on their Inboxes.
Blizzard said today that the closed beta for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is officially underway. The company revealed in a press release that "thousands" of gamers will begin to receive their invitations starting today. This will be the first phase of many in the closed beta, so don't panic just yet if your invitation isn't sitting in your Inbox.
"In addition to providing feedback on the multiplayer balance of StarCraft II, testers are also getting a first look at Blizzard Entertainment's revamped Battle.net service, which will be the online platform for StarCraft II, World of Warcraft, and future Blizzard Entertainment games," the company said.
Here are the official beta specs:
PC Minimum Requirements:
Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7
2.2 GHz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
1 GB system RAM/1.5 GB for Vista and Windows 7
128 MB NVidia GeForce 6600 GT/ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card
1024x768 minimum display resolution
4 GB free hard space (Beta)
Broadband connection
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is currently slated to ship in the first half of 2010.

Check your self too
The bar has been set so high by the original Starcraft. I can't imagine this release being on the same scale as the original in its day but, one could still hope despite no LAN support which is a huge hurdle to overcome in itself for this genre.
Haven't anybody thounght the requiemnet a little lower than recently game?
Ultimate91
By your grammar im astonished that you past the 5th grade.
Reading your comment was almost as painful as watching the Special Olympics, or Womans Basketball.
Check your self too
Please fix the title, thats just silly.
If i make some things to medium and to high i can get a smooth 60 fps+ The game looks great but on lowest settings it's so bare
LOL! You got PWND! BTW, did you ever stop to think that English could possibly be a second language for that person?
Yay! Star Craft!
Yeah, but 40FPS is plenty for a RTS. Hell the original probibly only ran at under 30FPS like Diablo 2 anyway....
Glad to hear how your system runs the game though, cause I have that same Processor! But I have a 4870 1GB running 1080P.
Thanks for sharing how it runs on your system!
I think that they get new keys every few days so it's best to check back now and then.
Muphry's Law just kicked your ass.
are they trying to trick us in to thinking that it hasn't taken them 11 years to make this by making it look like it came out in 2004 !?
it BETTER LOOK GOOD!!
their stupid "oh, every n00b with an abacus has to be able to run it" policy mixed with how long it has taken to polish it makes me wonder..
I'm all for low minimums, but we better be able to crank it up.
I still think starcraft looks good, low res sure, but the hand crafted (pre-rendered?) sprites have a certain quality feel to them. warcraft III was a joke graphically, the ONLY RTS to come close to replicating the look of it's previous sprite version in 3D is Red Alert 3.
the main reason I like starcraft is because of how different the races are. but I don't care how different they are mechanically, if they don't LOOK different, the illusion is broken.