Video game retailers around the country stayed open until inhuman hours of the morning to provide avid gamers with their copies of the sequel to Blizzard’s highly acclaimed and ever-popular StarCraft.<\/p>\n
Fans have been waiting 3 years for the game’s release since its official announcement.<\/p>\n
For those who aren’t up-to-date on the history, the original StarCraft was launched in 1998 and was quickly followed up with the Brood War expansion set later that year.<\/p>\n
StarCraft 2 was unveiled almost 10 years later on 18 May 2007 in Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n
Despite the ridiculousness of the hour there was a buzz among the 70-odd gamers assembled outside BT Games Centurion as they waited for the store to open its doors.<\/p>\n
The store started taking payments for the game from 22h00 last night and allowed customers in five at a time after the zero hour.<\/p>\n
By 01h00 it was all over for the employees of the store, but the night had likely only just begun for the excited new owners.<\/p>\n