The day has arrived, the moon has orbited the earth 149 times since the original Starcraft was released (over 12 years!) NOW Starcraft 2 is officially in-store. If you have pre-ordered expect your copies imminently if you haven’t get to your local gamer store immeadiately before they are sold out – which they undoubtably will be.

Starcraft 2 cover art official

Still sitting there reading this? Hopefully it is because your Pre-Order is on the way… to help keep you from having a nervous breakdown read some of these awesome Starcraft stats that we have gathered:

StarCraft has Seen the Vast Emptiness of Space

Astronaut Daniel Barry took one giant leap for nerd-kind by bringing a copy of StarCraft with him into space. Revelling in the inherent irony of bringing a video game about killing evil space bugs along while you actually circle Earth in a spaceship, the developers requested the intergalactic game CD and now keep it at Blizzard HQ.

It’s a Guinness World Record Holder

StarCraft broke into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the best-selling PC Strategy Game of all time, topping 9.5 million copies sold worldwide. We can only imagine how many billions of bases and hives were built in the process.

StarCraft Players Have Jedi-Like Hand Speed

To succeed at competitive StarCraft, it’s important to have a high APM (actions per minute). Some hardcore players are able to achieve a mind-boggling 300-plus APM. Remember that the next time you pat yourself on the back for being able to type 70 words per minute.

StarCraft Has Contributed to the Gamer Dictionary

Video game–related slang is nothing new (n00b, pwned, kekeke), but StarCraft birthed a verb that is neither insulting nor based on a typo. “Zerg” means to bum-rush and devastate with overwhelming numbers. It’s a reference to the alien race of bugs that are typically used to perform such a tactic. Merriam-Webster does not recognize the word … yet.

Koreans Fly First-Class StarCraft

StarCraft is kind of a big deal in South Korea. As a result, Korean Air branded two of its jets with StarCraft II art. Science has yet to prove whether flying is safer when there is a giant space marine painted on an airplane, but it can’t hurt, right?

Starcraft 2 advert on korean plane