Quick blurbs on random things that might be of interest to you crazy kids!

Blizzard announced today that they are going to have Battle.net integrate with Facebook.  The first step will be letting you add Facebook friends to your Battle.net friends lists.  This will be tested shortly in the StarCraft 2 beta, with more features to come.  I can't wait to announce every achievement I get in WoW and StarCraft2 every 35 seconds to Facebook!  Wait...

EvE's next expansion Tyrannis is less than two weeks away, and if you're interested, they've posted the full length high definition trailer on their YouTube Page and the Tyrannis feature page.

Speaking of trailers, Funcom has released the launch trailer for their Age of conan expansion Rise of the Godslayer, giving a look at locations, characters and monsters players will run into while running around all the shiny new areas.  Don't forget, this launches on May 11th.  

Via press release, Blizzard announced today that Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty will be released on July 27, 2010. It will release in the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau at the same time. Players will also be able to purchase StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty directly from Blizzard Entertainment shortly after the retail launch. 

"We've been looking forward to revisiting the StarCraft universe for many years, and we're excited that the time for that is almost here," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "Thanks to our beta testers, we're making great progress on the final stages of development, and we'll be ready to welcome players all over the world to StarCraft II and the new Battle.net(R)  in just a few months."

Starcraft 2 is of course the followup to the 1998 release Starcraft, which is still played world wide to this day.  You can pre-order from your favorite retailer now!

A new Call of Duty is due later this year and Treyarch already have the first trailer out there for the world to see. A lot of fast cut editing shows that the game is set in many places from snowy Arctic looking regions, Apocalypse Now inspired red skies and other Vietnam war era looking places, it even shows something that looks like a mission to space or at the very least the stratosphere. But the important thing is it looks just as you’d expect, first person shooter action with a strong storyline. There has been a lot of speculation about what’s going on in the trailer, but sources, well rumours at least have revealed the game will show us all the birth of the Elite Special Forces will focus on off-the-record missions using unconventional weaponry. Still, nothing is 100% clear yet so expect plenty of speculation, gossip and many more rumours between now and the games release this November.

Reakktor Media has opened the flood gates for registration to their closed beta for their sci-fi space MMORPG "Black Prophecy." The focus during the first phase of testing will be on server and program stability. Unfortunately, that means that for now only a small group of about 100 players will have access to the game server for now. More fighter pilots will be recruited in time.

Registration for beta testing is up at http://www.blackprophecy.com.

Realtime Worlds, Inc. announced the release date for APB (All Points Bulletin).  APB will be hitting shelves on June 29th in North America, July 1st in mainland Europe and July 2nd in the UK.

If you've been living under a rock, APB pits two groups of players, Criminals and Enforcers, against each other and lets them loose in a persistent, open-world, online multiplayer setting in the fictional city of San Paro. Massive amounts of customization, both via clothing, tattoos, in game death music and more are also a halmark of APB.

You can get your hot little hands on a copy of APB either in-store or via digital download for £34.99 (which converts to US$53.65 as of the time of this writing). The game includes 50 hours of gameplay with it plus unlimited time in APB’s social districts. Once the 50-hours are up, players can buy more game time from as little as SRP £5.59 (US$8.57) for an additional 20 hours, or a 30-day unlimited package for£7.99 (US$12.25) with discounts available for 90 and 180 days. Players can also earn game time by actually playing the game, with rewards for creativity and other methods of subsidizing their ongoing costs with their in-game activities.

If you pre-order, you will get early access to the game with "APB VIP" time, access to the key to the city demo, and an in-game Asylum UPgraded Criminal car and Enforcer upgraded Patrol car, as well as CSA Enforcer and Asylum Criminal clothing.  Let's of course, not forget the strike a pose emote! 

Check out the images of each of these bonuses after the break.