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Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce has said Battle.net’s StarCraft II marketplace is still coming to the service, but there is no specific date at the moment for when it will launch.

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StarCraft II lead designer Dustin Browder has said that Blizzard is currently still working on the Battle.net Marketplace, but admits it’s “struggling” with it.

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Blizzard has started offering a new verification service to Battle.net users which will allow folks to dial a toll-free-number to verify users’ location when unusual activity is recognized by the system.

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Battle.net project director Greg Canessa has said someday, Blizzard may add Activision games to the service, but for now, it’s all Blizzard and nothing else.

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Blizzard has sent over word of a digital pre-sale for Cataclysm going on via Battle.net.

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Battle.net project director Greg Canessa said so. It’s a “top five strategic initiative,” don’t you know.

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Battle.net director Greg Canessa has told Joystiq that Blizzard had “miscalculated” over the controversy surrounding Real ID earlier this year.

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Blizzard has added an opt-out option to the Real ID system being implemented with World of Warcraft and StarCraft II and likely Diablo III.

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Blizzard said it would ban StarCraft II players for cheating last month, and sure enough, the developer laid the smack down on those who failed to heed the warning yesterday.

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Blizzard’s sent over a Q&A regarding the whole Real ID meltdown that took place over the last couple of weeks.

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This will not go over well.

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Activision’s announced it’s added Facebook support to the upcoming Battle.net 2.0.

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Blizzard EVP of game design Rob Pardo has told The Escapist that while Battle.net will remain with the company for the foreseeable future, he doesn’t rule out licencing it out to third-parties.

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Acti-Blizz has just confirmed Starcraft II will be downloadable at launch from Battle.net 2.0 when it releases this year.

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Blizzard’s posted a large preview of Battle.net 2.0 on the StarCraft II site, giving hope that the SCII beta may not be far behind.

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Acti Blizz CFO Tom Tippl has shown a slide in New York that appears to push Diablo III passed a 2010 release, Kotaku reports.

While StarCraft II, the Battle.Net revamp and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm were all shown to be hitting next year, Diablo III, StarCraft II expansion packs and Blizzard’s next MMO will release in the “next few years”.

Tippl was speaking at the BMO Capital Markets Conference last night.

Today is the last day to move over to a Battle.net account should you wish to continue playing World of Warcarft.

Blizzard has said that it is now a requirement, per Cinemablend, and if you wish to play future titles like Diablo III and StarCraft II, you might as well go ahead and sign up because it is mandatory for those as well.

Battle.net stores all your account information and has a new communication feature and auto opt-in for upcoming Betas.

As a reward for doing so, Blizzard is giving away a free penguin pet:

“If you create a new Battle.net account after November 11 and merge an existing World of Warcraft account with it, you will still be able to receive the pet. However, please note that we plan to remove the ability to get the penguin pet at some point in the future”, said Blizzard.

More through the link.

Blizzard said today that all existing World of Warcraft accounts will be merged into the new Battle.net by November 11.

Beyond that date, all WoW players will need to log in to the game using a Battle.net username and password. Anyone who wishes to create a new World of Warcraft account will need to start with a Battle.net account from then on.

Serious business. Hit the first link for more.

Over on Battle.net, there is a StarCraft II Q&A, where the developers answered a few questions on the RTS.

There’s some interesting information in there, most of it you may already know.

What you may not have known, though, is that the game made use of 58 voice actors, and that “terrain sets are named after planets and there will be more flexibility to modify terrain sets in the final game”.

Head on over there now and read all about the post-game lobby and much more.

Thanks, BigDownload.

During its Battle.net BlizzCon panel, Blizzard announced that StarCraft II will allow players to put price tags on their created maps. Creators will, of course, see some cash for their hard work, but Blizzard didn’t give an exact percentage.

The hope is that this will encourage players to form small dev teams and craft complex maps — or even new gametypes. So whereas before, the cost outweighed any potential rewards these intrepid souls might reap, now they’ve got a real cash-money incentive.

If you’re afraid Blizzard just tossed a “You must have this much disposable income to play” sign in front of StarCraft II’s multiplayer, don’t panic. Blizzard compared its new storefront to the iPhone App Store in terms of how it’s hoping the distribution of free and premium content will emerge.

More as it comes.