Pearce: Fourth StarCraft II race may be added by expansion

Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce reckons you might be getting a fourth StarCraft II race "in the event" of an expansion to the RTS sequel.

"We don't have the resources or time to add a fourth race to the launch of StarCraft II, but I'm sure in the event that we decide to do an expansion set it's a feature that'll come up for discussion," the company boss told VG247.

StarCraft II will feature the three races from the first game - the Terrans, the Zerg and the Protoss - but a fourth had been considered early on in development.

"We talked about the possibility of a fourth race early on, but we felt like we had a finite amount of great ideas and wanted to make sure we focused all the cool, best ideas on the existing three races rather than diluting those ideas across four races," Pearce added.

StarCraft II currently has no release date, but is looking likely for 2009.