Karune (real name Kevin Yu) is a Blizzard Entertainment official representative present on the battle.net forums as the "RTS Community Manager," a position Karune describes as being "the gateway of information regarding Blizzards [sic] current RTS titles including Warcraft 3, Starcraft, and already much anticipated Starcraft 2." He is from the US office. Karune's answeed questions in Q&A threads. He has formerly worked as a community manager at Petroglyph. He was also known as "SageKing" and, on the World of Warcraft forum's StarCraft board, he is known as "Karunecm".