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10th May—New Balance Changes

Blizzard updated StarCraft II today using a new format. Instead of a patch, the changes are made when the servers undergo maintenance. See StarCraft II version history for the latest changes.

7th May—Heart of the Swarm Developer Update

Blizzard released a developer update for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm today. Potential updates include a system to restore an interrupted multiplayer game (eg in an esports tournament), the ability to create different accounts for different parts of the world, and a clan system.

11th April—Heart of the Swarm info

Blizzard released new information for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, such as new unit ideas and the cancellation of the replicant and shredder. Read the changes and reasoning here.

31st March—April Fools

Blizzard "announced" several news items for April Fool's, 2012, such as the "new game" StarCraft: Supply Depot.

2nd March—StarCraft Master challenges released

Blizzard Entertainment released StarCraft Master, a series of 30 challenges today.

21st February—StarCraft II Patch 1.4.3 released

Blizzard released patch 1.4.3.21029 today. Added an attack range upgrade to the Phoenix and balance changes on ghost's snipe and MULE.

10th February—RISK: StarCraft announced

Blizzard announced a RISK: StarCraft boardgame, due in the summer of 2012.

9th February—Preview of season 6 maps

Blizzard previewed two season 6 maps, Cloud Kingdom and Korhal Compound. Season 6 starts February 14th.

8th November—StarCraft II Patch 1.4.2 released

Blizzard released patch 1.4.2.20141 today. Few bug fixes and changes to the forge and ghost.

29th September—StarCraft II Patch 1.4.1 released

Blizzard released patch 1.4.1.19776 today. Few bug fixes.

20th September—StarCraft II Patch 1.4 released

Blizzard released the massive patch 1.4.0.19679 today. See the notes here.

24th August—StarCraft II PTR Patch 1.4 out

Blizzard released a massive balance and bugfix patch on the public test realm. Read the detailed notes.

3rd August—StarCraft II: Starter Edition

An enhanced demo package for Wings of Liberty called the Starter Edition is now available.

28th July—Patch 1.3.6 live

Blizzard released patch 1.3.6.19269 today. Few bug fixes. At the same time, battle.net server went down for a while.

25th/26th July—BlizzCon site and Battle.net season 3 starts

Blizzard has launched the new BlizzCon site here, and battle.net season 3 has started with a number of changes on the ladder map pool.