Here's your StarCraft II info overload of the day. StarCraft 2 Interview- Lead Producer Talks LAN, Expansions, Editor Features and More on Shacknews chats with lead producer Chris Sigaty. Likewise Blizzard's Sigaty On Developing StarCraft II on Gamasutra is another conversation with the lead producer on Blizzard's RTS sequel. Meanwhile, Chris gets a break as the In-Depth Lore Interview on IncGamers.Com chats with Chris Metzen about the game, and they have also posted an article on the StarCraft II Blizzard hero NPCs. Finally, Blizzard: Several Years To Full Completion Of StarCraft II on Gamasutra gets Chris Sigaty back in the act, as he offers an outlook on how long it will take all three parts of this project to unfold:

The actual single-player mechanics will have to change, Sigaty explains. "What we're doing with multiplayer, we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of, so all those things, we're just starting to move into discussions about now," he says. "I really don't expect us to get into any action on it until we actually ship the game."

Does that mean it may be several years until all of StarCraft II is completed? "Yes," says Sigaty. "That's a fair statement."

And while the general guideline is a four- to six-month beta period, "we're not going to ship the game until it's ready, is the bottom line," Sigaty states. "We're trying to get the beta out as quickly as we can. We're really excited about where it is from a multiplayer standpoint. I don't know what it means other than we won't ship it until it's ready."