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   There are currently two sure bets you can make about Blizzard: one is StarCraft 2, and the other one is a second expansion for World of Warcraft. Both have been previously "confirmed" to some degree, by various people from Blizzard, but even now - 9 years after the original StarCraft came out, and nearly 30 hours since The Burning Crusade went live - there is still little information available about these two titles. And when I say "little", I'm being very, very indulgent!

   From the two of them, StarCraft 2 is of course the one we were hoping to know a lot more about, and a lot sooner. After years of lukewarm teasings, Blizzard has once again put its fans to the test yesterday night, when vice-president Itzik Ben Bassat let slip an encouraging statement about the long-awaited sci-fi strategy sequel:
"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."    Pro-G writes that Bassat made this statement while on stage at the HMV Oxford Street store in London, at the Burning Crusade midnight launch event.

   And speaking of which, plans for a second World of Warcraft expansion have been confirmed by a "blue" since December. So that's certainly something to look forward to, while grinding with your blood elf / draenei to level 60 58 all over again. Any future WoW expansions will hopefully be released once a year, at least that's what Blizzard is aiming for. But just what will the second expansion bring - that's another big unknown in itself. The Emerald Dream? Northrend? The South Seas? New worlds reachable through new portals? Could be any of them, really.

   Blizzplanet offers an interesting read on this topic, as they speculate why each of the above could be turned into a full-fledged WoW expansion. The Emerald Dream sounds pretty sweet, Northrend sounds a bit like the 3rd or 4th expansion, while Blizzard themselves seem to be quite happy about opening up "some really alien worlds and creatures". Choices, choices...