StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will hit the stores on July 27, 2010. According to Blizzard’s official press release, StarCraft 2 will become immediately available in:

• United States
• Canada
• Europe
• South Korea
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Russia
• Mexico
• Singapore
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Thailand
• The Philippines
• The regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau

Players will also be able to purchase StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty directly from Blizzard Entertainment shortly after the retail launch.

We’ve received a great amount of submission for our recent StarCraft 2 Beta key contest and have been blow away by the amount of creativity and design skill some of our community members have displayed! We’re going to present most of the winning submissions; skipping quite a few, but only because there were so many – we actually ended up giving more than 30 keys to our readers.

Here are the top submissions for your viewing pleasure. We’ve refrained from mentioning the names of people, as many of them are real names – coming from Facebook rather than being aliases. All entries are exactly as submitted, in either text or picture form.

* SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS

BECAUSE I’M OUT OF CONTROL!

* <picture of a Baneling> I’m fat and volatile, don’t f@%# with me.

* Picture is of an Infestor next to a Colossus that has a Neural Parasite. Colossus is seen firing at and chasing several nearby fleeing probes with its laser. Text: “COLOSSAL FAIL”

* Front: +3/3,  Back: Good Luck.

* “I make dead people” (Reaper picture)

* Starcraft 2 Logo: Text: “What a Rush“

* Picture is the Feedback icon. Text: “Never ask a High Templar to critique your writing. You won’t like his Feedback.”

* In my mind I am in your mind and in your mind I am the Overmind”

* The most trademark and intellectual property infringing design award goes to…

* Best execution of the nuked shirt design:

Don’t we all.

That’s it for this contest. GG, and thank you all for participating. If you haven’t gotten a StarCraft 2 beta key yet, don’t despair - we have more keys to give and more contests coming up.