The futuristic RTS StarCraft 2 will be released in the third quarter of 2010 if a Razer brand distributor can be trusted.

Calling in on The Instance podcast, the WoW player "Daerys" from the Ravenholt EU server revealed his company "is the official Razer brand distributor and we've been told that the Razer merchandise StarCraft 2 product will be released to coincide with the game."

Now, the company does not "have the exact date yet, but we are expecting it in the third quarter of 2010."

While this could just be some attention-seeker claiming false information, it doesn't sound very far-fetched. A third quarter release seems very likely considering the beta recently started, and they normally don't last a full year. Besides, the Activision-Blizzard conference call revealed both StarCraft 2 and WoW: Cataclysm are planned for 2010.

In the meanwhile, make sure to catch up on the nitty-gritty details of StarCraft 2 over at StarCraft: IncGamers.

UPDATE
As you can see yourself by looking in the comments below, Razer PR director Heathcliff Hatcher contacted us directly and told us that this information provided by the supposed Razer distributor is incorrect.

Comments

Razer|Agent (1) Posted: 17:31 on 23 Feb 2010

Gunnar, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but you are correct in assuming the info is false. We have not released any information about the Razer products for the SC2 line except what is on our web page. We currently don't have a launch date for SC2 or the Razer SC2 product line. Best regards, Heathcliff Hatcher Razer|Agent Director of Marketing & PR ( USA ) www.razerzone.com | cult.razerzone.com Razer USA Ltd 2035 Corte Del Nogal #101 Carlsbad, CA 92011

Gunnar Petzall (2) Posted: 17:43 on 23 Feb 2010 Somerset, UK

Thank you Heathcliff. Very much obliged :)

Cogo (3) Posted: 17:45 on 23 Feb 2010

You are right though, it's a VERY good guess. I don't know if Heatcliff is trying to stop a leak or something, anybody's guess I guess ;) Could just as well be either way. That the guys on the podcast was lying, but with a good guess, or that he was not, and Razer are now pissed with him :)

nasarius (4) Posted: 22:11 on 23 Feb 2010 Berlin

It's not a very interesting "leak"; trying to suppress it makes no sense. Speculation was already running towards a late summer release date, which is still a rather long beta these days. If you follow just about any product pre-release, you know that distributors use all sorts of BS release dates, sometimes for various evil purposes, sometimes just because they need a placeholder. If we're being kind, I'd say the caller just took someone's guesstimate database entry as confirmed fact.

Sebastian Cox (5) Posted: 08:04 on 25 Feb 2010

After delaying with 2, yes two, consecutive ebay scams of $100 each I finally got a sc2 key..