{"id":476,"date":"2010-07-26T09:02:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=476"},"modified":"2010-07-26T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T19:12:41","slug":"starcraft-2-release-midnight-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/starcraft-2-release-midnight-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"StarCraft 2 Release: Midnight Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll have the chance to meet the staff and developers at this <strong>StarCraft 2 midnight launch<\/strong> and grovel at their feet. Here&#8217;s WHEN and, most importantly, WHERE:<\/p>\n<p><strong>North America:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen: July 26th, 21:00 with members of the StarCraft 2 development team.<br \/>\nWhere: &#8220;Fry&#8217;s Electronics&#8221;, 10800 Kalama River Avenue, Fountain Valley, CA 92708<\/p>\n<p><strong>UK, London:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen: July 26th, 22:30 with Carl Chimes, Lead Software Engineer, StarCraft II<br \/>\nWhere: &#8220;Game Start Here&#8221;, 100 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL<\/p>\n<p><strong><span id=\"more-141\"><\/span>Germany, Berlin:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen: July 26th, 22:30 with Rob McNaughton, Lead Technical Artist, StarCraft II<br \/>\nWhere: &#8220;Media Markt&#8221;, Berlin-Mitte, Grunerstra\u00dfe 20, 10179 Berlin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brazil:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen: July 26th, 22:00 with Pausto de Martini from StarCraft II Cinematics<br \/>\nWhere: &#8220;Saraiva&#8221;, Shopping Mall Morumbi, Av. Roque Petroni Jr, 1.089 &#8211; Morumbi S\u00e3o Paulo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mexico:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen: July 26th, 20:00 with Salvador Arditti (Cinematics) &amp; Santiago Baranda (Community Manager)<br \/>\nWhere: &#8220;Game Rush&#8221;, Avenida Universidad # 697, Colonia del Valle, Ciudad de Mexico<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moscow:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen: July 26th, 20:00 with Tony Hsu, Game Producer, StarCraft II<br \/>\nWhere: &#8220;Media Markt&#8221;, Moscow, 119334, Prospekt Vernadskogo 6, Trade Center &#8220;Capitoliy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>France, Paris:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen: July 26th, 19:30 with Dustin Browder, Game Director, StarCraft II<br \/>\nWhere: &#8220;Fnac&#8221;, 74, av. des Champs-Elys\u00e9es, 75008 Paris<\/p>\n<p><strong>Singapore:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen: 27.07.2010 10:00AM with Brian Kindregan, Lead Writer, StarCraft II<br \/>\nWhere: &#8220;Funan DigitaLife&#8221; Mall, 109 North Bridge Road, Singapore, 179097<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sweden, Stockholm:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen: July 26th, 19:00 with Chris Sigaty, Production director, StarCraft II<br \/>\nWhere: &#8220;Webhallen&#8221;, Sveav\u00e4gen 39, 111 34 Stockholm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romania: <\/strong><br \/>\nJust kidding about this last part. He, he, he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, if you can&#8217;t make it at Blizzard&#8217;s official <strong>StarCraft 2 midnight launch<\/strong>, it&#8217;s almost certain that you will be able to make it to one of more than 3,000 events that are being held at GameStop stores in the US.<\/p>\n<p>StarCraft II will still go on sale at midnight, but beforehand people who wait to get their copy of the highly acclaimed RTS sequel can participate in costume contests, art contests and other events. GameStop will also give away prizes such as 250$ GameStop cards, the collector&#8217;s version of StarCraft II and a trip to BlizzCon 2010. 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Here&#8217;s WHEN and, most importantly, WHERE: North America: When: July 26th, 21:00 with members of the StarCraft 2 development team. Where: &#8220;Fry&#8217;s Electronics&#8221;, 10800 Kalama River Avenue, Fountain Valley, CA 92708 UK, London: When: July 26th, 22:30 with Carl Chimes, Lead Software Engineer, StarCraft II Where: &#8220;Game Start Here&#8221;, 100 Oxford Street, London, &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/starcraft-2-release-midnight-launch\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[200,129,128,37],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}