Currently, StarCraft II Alpha is on-going (I believe).. And StarCraft II Beta will be coming!
On StarCraft II official site under FAQ section, there’s a category regarding Beta Opt-in.
Which means, you can opt-in for Beta testing. Anyway, there’s no guarantee you’ll be chosen to be the Beta tester.

StarCraft II didn’t given us an exact date when Beta will be.
However, the Beta testing will start with North America, Australia and New Zealand.
And gradually move to other regions as well.

More information on StarCraft II Beta Opt-in …

Anyway, here is the sad story.
To be eligible to opt-in, you must have at least one Blizzard Entertainment game attached to your Battle.net account (Where you will need to opt-in to StarCraft II Beta).

With this Beta test, we can assume that after around 6 months or more… StarCraft II will be releasing.
This is just my assume anyway, don’t take it and store in your mind and keep on dreaming… “Yeah! StarCraft II is releasing end of this year!” or that kind of thing.
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• Swedes choose computer games over sports: study
• Swedish boy collapses after 20-hour World of Warcraft binge

The Youth Care Foundation (Stiftelsen Ungdomsv氓rd), which works to advocate active alternatives to gaming, described the game as “the cocaine of the computer games world”. The foundation’s report is yet to be published, it is based on the experiences of gamers and their parents who have been in contact with the group.

According to Sven Rollenhagen at the foundation to the newspaper Metro, he said that “There is not a single case of game addiction that we have worked with in which World of Warcraft has not played a part.”

World of Warcraft is an online fantasy game or massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) which have no end in the game, according to the Game Over treatment centre in Link枚ping in central Sweden are the types of games which carry the highest risk of addiction.

There is a unbelievable news reported by The Local in November 2008, a boy in Laholm, southern Sweden had been admitted to hospital after collapsing following a 20-hour World of Warcraft binge. You can see that the addiction level of World of Warcraft by this case.
You can read further news about the boy collapsing at here.

According to the Swedish National Institute of Public Health (Folkh盲lsoinstitutet), the problem with computer game addiction is large in Sweden although there is currently no medical diagnosis of the condition. Uhm, yeah, it’s called “Geek”. Silly Swedes are ruining it for the rest of us!