Most of you are probably aware that Blizzard’s sequel to the massively popular Starcraft (in North Korea anyway) has been in development for some time, and is finally due for release sometime this year.  A closed beta for the game was opened some time last week and keys were handed out randomly to anyone who had enabled the beta opt-in for their Battle.net account. Initial reactions of the actual beta seem to be very positive, as you’d expect. You can check out livestreams of gamers playing the beta and also discuss it over at the GameReplays.org Starcraft 2 section.

For the lucky few who did get beta keys, they had a choice of either activating the key and playing the beta, or selling the key for up to $300. Yes, you read that correctly. Starcarft 2 beta keys are selling for exorbitant figures of over £200 on ebay. I guess this is the price some people are willing to pay to play the game a few months before everyone else. Myself, I’d rather have the cash.

A thought then… Presuming Diablo III will have the same beta service, and a new Battle.net account only requires one Blizzard game activated on it. You could probably pick up a budget copy of Warcaft 3 for less than £5, and every Battle.net account can potentially get a beta key… Are you thinking what I’m thinking?