Activision/Blizzard 4th quarter calendar results 2009 conference call - listen in

[Ohio Joe]

Rumor mongers think talk of the Starcraft 2 beta will be included.

Countdown to the call is here:

http://www.countdown2zero.com/f2b72

Link to listen in is here:

http://investor.activision.com/

If you want to skip the countdown the call happens Feb 10, 2010 at 1:30 PM PT

[Ohio Joe]

1. Starcraft II Beta to start this month

It was announced during the call. Blizzard has started a thread to discuss it on their forums:

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23141113880&sid=3000

For information on how to opt in and have a chance to be selected, see this other thread on Blizzards forums:

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=16903634489&sid=3000

[Occulus]

2. Was there ANY mention of Diablo 3? n/t

[Ohio Joe]

3. Not really

It was mentioned but only in relation to Battlenet 2.0, nothing about the game itself... no new revelations on content or beta much less release. Unrelated to the call, they have released some updates to the monk character:

http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/monk.xml?rhtml=y

Shows the female monk persona. Each character will be selectable as either male or female.

Just my guess... Diablo III beta at least a year off. They still have lots of stuff to tease with and they love to tease. They also usually announce the beta is coming several months before it actually arrives... plus they tease the beta announcement is coming several months before it does so... absolute minimum for beta would be September and since they still have one more major reveal (the last class) with no hints yet, I don't see it that early. A lot of people think they announce games to early, makes people think the game is taking to long but I don't think so. I think they really have it down to building up the frenzy.