StarCraft II mega-preview: An (endlessly tweaked, stats-filled) intergalactic bloodbath

Today the wraps came off a number of previews of Blizzard's StarCraft II, and the Internet was flooded with information about the PC strategy sequel as if a celebrity had just died. Fans have awaited the game for ten years, while the still thriving audience of hardcore StarCraft I players have nervously kept at their game, wondering if the new millennium's take on the RTS classic would invalidate their decade of practice. The game industry's online press attended a preview session at Blizzard HQ in California last week, and the general consensus is that it's like returning to one's own hometown after being gone for ten years: a lot's changed, but it's still undoubtedly home. And it feels good.