Shacknews is reporting on Blizzard's announcement of a collector's edition release for the upcoming Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, which is slated to be released sometime between now and this summer. The CE, containing a copy of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty for both PC and Mac, will ship at $99 and come with "a 176-page art book, a 'Thor' unit pet for World of Warcraft and the original StarCraft plus expansion on a USB thumb drive shaped like protagonist Jim Raynor's dog tag".

Sounds like a great way to get gamers into the Starcraft saga if they missed out on the first game, which with its 12 year age ranks up there with the best classics. And the fact that it's on a USB stick should make it easy to port the game around between home and the office. Great!