VG247 has posted an interview with Dustin Browder, lead designer of StarCraft II. They discuss the single player campaign, the release of StarCraft II, and of course the beta. Read it here.

Blizzard has released "Broken Wide", a short story by Cameron Dayton featuring the Baneling.

Also, Patches 3 and 4 of the SC2 Beta were recently released. View information on all patches in the Patch Notes thread. The patches feature shorter research times for all main Terran weapons and armor upgrades, a 10 HP nerf to the Zealot's shields, and some minor bug fixes.

The second SC2 beta patch was released a few days ago. Major changes include shortened building times for many Terran buildings, and big nerfs to the Mothership and the Chrono Boost ability.

You can check it out in the Blue Tracker:


Also, PiF has been busy putting up many more videos to our YouTube account. Check them all out in his thread.

The first SC2 beta patch includes several balance changes and some bugfixes. It is really interesting that some abilities has been completely removed and replaced with others.
The Mothership and the Infestor has been changed the most.

You can check it out in the Blue Tracker: