Here’s some good news for Battlestar Galactica and StarCraft fans: Tricia Helfer, BSG’s sexy cylon, is going to give her voice acting skills another go in Blizzard’s highly anticipated sequel, StarCraft II. She’ll be voicing none other than Sarah Kerrigan, StarCraft’s own Queen of Blades.

Helfer, best known for her role as Number Six in Battlestar Galactica, is no voice-acting novice. You can also catch her in Halo: ODST and Spiderman: Web of Shadows. In terms of StarCraft II, Helfer has stated that she’s excited about exploring the duality of Sarah Kerrigan. At lat year’s BlizzCon, Blizzard’s Chris Metzen stated that …read more

It’s official: Blizzard killed off LAN support for StarCraft II. No SCII LAN parties for you! Instead, Blizzard wants you to sign up to Battle.net and stay there. They hope that this move helps protect users against piracy, by offering a one-stop shop for all multiplayer needs. Mostly, it just sounds like Blizzard really, really wants you to sign up to Battle.net and will not rest until everyone has done so.

The official word from Blizzard PR’s team member, Bob Colayco is as follows:

“We don’t currently plan to support LAN play with StarCraft II, as we are building Battle.net to be …read more