News | 4/8/2010 at 1:57 PM

StarCraft 2 Collectors Edition and Pricing Announced

Blizzard has announced the pricing of the regular edition and a brand new Collector's Edition of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.  The regular version of the game will set you back $59.99 when it launches later this year while for the truly die hard fan weighing the collector's edition will set you back $99.99.  What's in that shiny box?

The Art of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a 176-page book featuring artwork from the game An exclusive 2GB USB flash drive replica of Jim Raynor's dog tag, which comes preloaded with the original StarCraft and the StarCraft: Brood War® expansion set A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, cinematics with director’s commentary, and more The official StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty soundtrack CD, containing 14 epic tracks from the game along with exclusive bonus tracks StarCraft comic book issue #0, a prequel to the comic series A World of Warcraft® mini Thor in-game pet that can be applied to all World of Warcraft characters on a single Battle.net account Exclusive Battle.net downloadable content, including special portraits for your Battle.net profile, decals to customize your units in-game, and a visually unique version of the terran Thor unit

There's still no official release date for the game which contains cooperative "comp-stomping" as well as co-op achievements.  

Will you be snagging the collector's edition of StarCraft 2?  I know one thing, that USB drive makes this offer very tempting.