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The video was first reported by Kotaku, and to be clear, there's no telling how legitimate this is -- Blizzard has unsurprisingly given it a standard "Blizzard Entertainment does not comment on rumours or speculation" response, and considering how well-known it is for secrecy, it'd be shocking if a clip leaked out so far ahead of the game's release (especially the ending). But on the other hand, there are a few tidbits that do lend the video credence. To begin with, YouTube uploads continue to be taken down for copyright claims by Activision Blizzard, suggesting they clearly don't want it to be seen. For another, a watermark for The Third Floor is at the bottom right of the video, which is a production company that lists Blizzard as a client and includes cinematics from Wings of Liberty among their demo reels. At the time of this writing, we couldn't find a clip of the video on YouTube (that wasn't immediately taken down, at least). Kotaku still has a version uploaded, though, if you insist on watching it for yourself. And of course, in case it's not yet abundantly clear to you, only watch if you don't care about potentially-but-maybe-not having the ending to a game that's still over a year out spoiled for you.
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, the second in what will be a StarCraft 2 trilogy (if it's possible for a sequel to be a trilogy in itself...) won't be out for over a year. And yet somehow, a video has hit YouTube that's purportedly a very early rendering of the game's ending cinematic.
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