Did you get in on the Starcraft II beta? If so, you may want to hurry up and re-register your nickname as it was just announced that all of the data associated with the beta has been erased. This includes stats and, like we mentioned above, nick names.

While this may be slightly discouraging news for those with a good play record, it’s wonderful news forthose who either want to change their nickname or start with a clean slate.

Still not in on the beta? No worries, Starcraft II is expected out sometime in the first half of this year.

via incgamers

Robot Entertainment has recently updated the Halo Wars website notifying us that the majority of data stored on the game’s online leaderboards have been lost.

Below is an excerpt from their posting:

An Xbox LIVE technical issue wiped all Halo Wars Xbox LIVE Leaderboards earlier today. This includes all singleplayer, multiplayer and Trueskill™ leaderboards, as well as all matchmaking data. At this time it’s unknown if the data can be restored, resulting in the Halo Wars Leaderboards being reset to original Launch Day status. The Xbox LIVE team is investigating the cause, and they will provide an update to the situation as soon as possible.

So you mean to tell me that they didn’t have backups of this data? What if this had happened with Halo 3?