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Bethesda and Blizzard have released trailers for their upcoming games The Elder Scrolls Online and StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm . Both trailers are unfortunately just CGI 'flavour' trailers rather than showing any gameplay. First up is The Elder Scrolls Online , which takes the Elder Scrolls universe into the MMORPG realm. Set a thousand years before the events of Skyrim , the game will feature the entire continent of Tamriel (including locations already familiar to players of Skyrim and Oblivion ) and will focus on a three-way war for control of the continent: Second is StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm . The long-awaited expansion to StarCraft 2 itself, Heart of the Swarm focuses on the Zerg species and adds RPG elements to the strategy game. The trailer features most of the opening cinematic to the game, apparently: No release date has been set for The Elder Scrolls Online , whilst StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm will be released on PC on 13 March.

Heart of the Swarm , the first of two expansions for StarCraft II , has had its release date confirmed. The Zerg will attack in force on 12 March 2013 . Staggeringly, this is almost three years after the release date of StarCraft II itself, which seems rather extreme for an expansion. The game will feature at least 20 new missions, with the storyline picking up some two years after the events of Wings of Liberty . The focus of the game will be on the character of Kerrigan and her attempts to regain control of the Zerg following her defeat at the end of StarCraft II itself. Blizzard had previously claimed that Heart of the Swarm would be 'expansion pack-priced', which in the UK is about £19.99. However, the price currently listed for the title is £32.99, or about £3 more expensive than the typical cost of a full-price game in the UK. Blizzard have so far not explained the rather excessive discrepancy.