Rumour on the net is that you've not got a hope in Hell of getting a boxed copy today, let alone tomorrow.

Fuck £39.99, I'm just gonna wait it out.

I've bought a lot of games in my time, but I actually felt excited picking this up*

*Half of the adrenaline rush came from the vision of wifey going batshit mentals.

I was going to, but it's Starcraft 2. And another boy at work had it.

Have you no digity?

Your chances are way better than that, only 0.5% are gay enough to have a Mac.

The game itself looks super-lovely (happily it defaulted everything to 'Ultra' for me).

No need for the disc in the drive for it to run, and interestingly it stores your account server side, so you can log onto any PC that has the game installed and it'll have all your progress correctly recorded.

No doubt.

Oh my it's glorious!

It's just Starcraft again, but with everything dialled up to 11, it's almost how you imagined the carnage in your head whilst playing the original game because PCs back then just weren't up to it.

Obviously I'm still not that far in, and I'm indecently excited about the prospects of what massive land and air battles are going to look and feel like later on, even just locking down a base and sending out an army of marines with medics in tow is awesome.

The music and sound are even more full on than they were before, the story and dialogue are both great and cheesy at the same time, the engine-driven cutscenes look sort of like Doom 3 on maximum everything (i.e. still not going to give Crysis any missed sleep but damn nice all the same), but lo and behold, it's Starcraft, the finest RTS ever - in modern loveliness.

And yes, clicking on the units until they get annoyed still makes me laugh.

EDIT - Oh yes it seems to have bucket load of cheevos, if you like that sort of thing

I have two guest codes myself, any BEEXers fancy a go at THE GAME THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN ON A FUCKING 360 OR A FUCKING PS3, please let me know.

Think I might get this soon as my bond comes back then. Hopefully shan't be long - a mere few days! What do you think of it, Zardoz?

Also, I'm usually crap at RTS multiplayer - I get all het up and start shaking and missing things, which is curious, as I'm largely very serene and quite good at online shooters. Hmm.

You really are a colossal twat, aren't you?

What do you think of it, Zardoz?

Not sure there is any need for this. :?

Did you ever play the first one, Pete?

I would like a friend code for this when I'm back from America next week please.

There was no need for his original statement either (quite aside from how dubious I am about its veracity). I don't think I really need to remind people what happened last time he went off on one like that.

Code incoming now Doc, one left for whoever wants it