Activision-Blizzard held their second quarter conference call yesterday, and in addition to addressing the Starcraft II delay, both Mike Morhaime and Activision CEO Bobby Kotick shared some insight into what the revamped Battle.net will be like.

The brand new system (which is currently up and working, albeit in a very skeleton form so far) will have "social networking features, cross-game communication, [and] unified account management about power leveling," in addition to features that will let players "share experiences" with each other online (we had presume that means things like screenshot galleries and leaderboards, but who knows?). Kotick also spoke up, and compared the service to that other popular online community, Xbox Live.

Blizzard is still saying the new Battle.net will come in conjunction with the new Starcraft, so we will have to keep an eye out for them both in the first half of 2010. It will be interesting to see what other features Blizzard adds in, and exactly what form features like "cross-game communication" take -- do they mean actual in-game messaging across games, or just status updates and messages on a social network about power leveling? Koticks comparison to Xbox Live raises some questions, too, as that is a much wider service than you would think Battle.net would be. But then again, the guys a CEO, and all CEOs have a tendency to overestimate exactly what their company is doing. Like most of Blizzards upcoming releases, we will have to wait and see on Battle.net about power leveling.

    The fights themselves are actually pretty commonplace for a Heroic -- the jousting fight is probably the least-liked among the playerbase (seriously, whoever really loves the jousting mechanic over at Blizzard needs to take a good long look in the mirror for some self reflection), while the best is of course the Argent Confessor, who summons a random figure from our "past memories" to fight