Yes, I'm being a smart-ass, but to take an off-handed remark that the Blizzard Veep of business development made at some launch party for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade and turn it into anything but that is absurd.

Specifically this is what Itzik Ben Bassat, Vice President Business Development and International for Blizzard Entertainment, told a gathering of WoWers at an HMV:

"I'm a StarCraft player myself and I hope it's not a decade, and we launched StarCraft in 1998, before I'm standing here again, celebrating the next game in the series."

Yep, there you have it, a biz development guy hopes there's a new Starcraft within the next ten years. Now go celebrate. Brian Crecente

Blizzard hints at new StarCraft by 2008 [Pro-G]

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