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Posted: 21 Jul 2010 12:36 AM PDT

Gamers rejoice! And rub your hands together furiously and salivate! StarCraft II is about to be released!

StarCraft II TV Ad shown at this year’s NBA Finals

For some, July 27, 2010 is the most important day in the calendar; for the last few years and maybe more.

For others – that means those of you who has been too busy working to remember 1998 when StarCraft was released, this article is full of videos that will take you back to those days when we used to rule the galaxy with our buddies, and all we do is go Zerg or Protoss hunting. Ah, those were the days!

Even as I am writing this, people who bought the digital version of the game are already downloading it, waiting for the game to be officially released on July 27 in order to be able to install it. These people want to be ahead of the digital queue! This digital queue is much better than the one you see at an Apple product launch or the one when Star Wars Episode I just got released. For one thing, you don’t have to sleep overnight on site to be the first. All you gotta do is wait. The bad thing is – the waiting can kill you …

So while waiting, why not take a peek at the game requirements provided by Blizzard, to release some tension, and also to watch and re-watch some videos to get us in the mood:

This is the StarCraft II Official Cinematic Trailer from 3 years ago, for those of you who has not seen it yet:

7 mins of gameplay footage from StarCraft2 single player campaign:

Starcraft II Beta Tournament: David Kim vs Tyler on Lost Temple Part 1 and 2:

Game Requirements:

Windows Specs:

Windows Minimum Game Requirements*:

Operating System: Windows® XP SP3 |Windows Vista® SP1 |Windows® 7 (All having the latest Service Packs) with DirectX® 9.0c
Processor: 2.6 GHz Pentium® IV or equivalent AMD Athlon® processor
Graphics: 128 MB PCIe NVIDIA® GeForce® 6600 GT |ATI Radeon® 9800 PRO video card or better
Hard Drive: 12 GB available HD space
Memory: 1 GB RAM (XP) OR 1.5 GB (Windows Vista® |Windows® 7 users)
DVD-ROM drive
Broadband connection
1024X720 minimum display resolution

Windows Recommended Game Requirements*:

Operating System: Windows Vista® SP1 |Windows® 7 (With the latest Service Packs)
Processor: Dual Core 2.4Ghz Processor
Graphics: 512 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTX |ATI Radeon® HD 3870 or better
Memory: 2 GB RAM

Macintosh Specs:

Mac Minimum Game Requirements*:
Operating System: Mac® OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.2 or newer
Processor: Intel® Processor
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT |ATI Radeon® X1600 or better
Hard Drive: 12 GB available HD space
Memory: 2 GB Ram
DVD-ROM drive
Broadband connection
1024X720 minimum display resolution

Mac Recommended Game Requirements*:

Operating System: Intel® Core 2 Duo processor
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600M GT |ATI Radeon® HD 4670 or better
Memory: 4 GB system RAM

*Note: Subject to changes by Blizzard by the time the game is released. It is correct as of Jul 16, 2010.

The Official StarCraft II in-game demo from 3 years ago. If you have seen this in 2007, you will want to see it again to compare how different the game is now compared to then: