New Battle.net launched, Starcraft 2 beta opt-in, Ohshiiiii Options

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www.battle.net

Blizzard just launched the new version of battle.net, which will link all blizzard games and support Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3. You can sign up now, and most importantly, register for beta testing on new games! This isn't a "starcraft 2 beta confirmed" type of deal, but its definitely the easiest way to get in the running when it eventually DOES happen.

One caveat is that to qualify you do need to have at least ONE other blizzard game to register. The cool thing is, you can put in the product key from any blizzard product and then they will give you the right to download a digital copy, just like steam. No more cd's!

You can also link this battle.net account to your world of warcraft account if you have one, so you have just one unified login.

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Apparently is Battle.net itself that is causing the delay, all the features and functionality Blizzard wants to implement into the new b.net will impossible to have in a working state before the end of 2009.

They want it to have "Xbox Live-like" features, such as inter-game messaging, friends list, etc. across all future Blizzard games.