http://pc.ign.com/articles/101/1011003p1.html

Activison's first-quarter financial reports bring some more delay news.

CEO Bobby Kotick announced that Starcraft II and Singularity have been moved to 2010.

"As we prepare for next year, we have moved the expected release dates for two games, Activision Publishing's Singularity and Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft II, into 2010," he said.

Kotick didn't explain the reasoning behind the delay, but added in earlier comments that this holiday would be very strong for the company.

Shortly after the news broke, Blizzard released the following statement: "Today we announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will not be ready for release by the end of 2009. Over the past couple of weeks, it has become clear that it will take longer than expected to prepare the new Battle.net for the launch of the game. The upgraded Battle.net is an integral part of the StarCraft II experience and will be an essential part of all of our games moving forward. This extra development time will be critical to help us realize our vision for the service."

The delay isn't exactly a surprise, as Blizzard is notorious for delays, and rumbles about StarCraft II had been growing. Last month, Stearne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia predicted a delay.

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Blizzard delaying means they care about the quality of the game^^

NOW BRING BACK LAN! >:O

Another one bites the dust. The theme song of 2009, must be.

I also think it means Diablo 3 in 2011

Someone should post the "play em off piano cat" everytime a games pushed to 2010

XD

I blame MW 2

You're right. Infinity ward probably told Blizzard to wait with SC2 to give MW2 some breathing space before the real deal hits the market :P

It seems like all of these huge titles are being moved to next year due to the huge releases of games like Modern Warfare 2 and New Super Mario Bros Wii in the fall.

Just another victim for Modern Warfare 2.