{"id":7946,"date":"2010-10-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm-scheduled-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/7946-rumour-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm-scheduled-for-2012","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm scheduled for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/news\/6281119.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a>, Battle.net project manager Greg Canessa hinted that the next instalment of StarCraft II &ndash; the Zerg campaign, Heart of the Swarm &ndash; will only be released 18 months from now.<\/p>\n<p>Canessa said that Battle.net features such as trading replays (can I get &nbsp;a WHOOP!?), broadcasting replays and upgrading profiles will be the &ldquo;main area of focus we&#8217;re going to be seeing on the Starcraft [II] side over the next 18 months between now and Heart of the Swarm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This puts the release date at April 2012, and it may well be that Blizzard will focus on launching Diablo III next year.<\/p>\n<p>StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void will be the third iteration of the game, and will tell the story of the Protoss campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard has not revealed an official launch period for the Diablo III, although it has been confirmed that the game will be shown at Blizzcon later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/8498-Heart-of-the-Swarm-headed-for-2012-release\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Heart of the Swarm only arriving in 2012\">Heart of the Swarm only arriving in 2012<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zerg campaign still 18 months away. Insert cryface. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}