Blizzard has been pretty quiet with information on Starcraft II. But today, Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime’s confirmed that StarCraft II will release this year, speaking in a pre-E3 investor webcast.

“We’re targeting an end of year release-this year-for StarCraft II, but, as always, we won’t release it until it meets our standards and the expectations of our players,” he said in the call.

The beta should be starting this summer. Obviously Blizzard can pull the plug and delay the game at any time.

[source via BigDownload]