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Filed under: Multiplayer, RTS, Starcraft II The days are now in the single digits between gamers and the release of StarCraft II. While Blizzard’s long awaited sci-fi RTS game will have a “worldwide” release next Tuesday, July 27, in both retail stores and later that day via download it looks like one country that won’t get the game on launch day is Japan. Kotaku reports that while several Asian nations are getting the game … Read More »
The Edge Magazine has posted a lengthy three-page article on the influence of StarCraft on eSports in Korea and worldwide. It’s a very good read, and that’s just the part one! I myself can’t wait to see what can they come up with for the second(and following, if any) part, as this article seems to tell a lot about the current and future position of StarCraft 1 as an eSport game. Will StarCraft II … Read More »
Less than a week away, Blizzard has released a few videos that really get your blood pumping to get hands on with the campaign. There are 3 videos we’ll outline here. While there are snapshots from the campaign video there’s not enough to piece anything together, no more than a movie trailer would. Starcraft 2 … Read More »
Filed under: Multiplayer, RTS, Starcraft II StarCraft II‘s release is less than a week away now and many fans who want to get the upcoming sci-fi RTS sequel have been wondering about the particulars of activating the game on Battle.net and also the differences between the boxed retail version and the digital download version. A rep for the game’s developer Blizzard answered these questions in a forum post. In short there are no differences … Read More »
Filed under: Culture, Multiplayer, RTS, Starcraft II If you can’t show up at Blizzard‘s official midnight launch event for StarCraft II, it’s almost certain that you will be able to make it to one of the 3,000 events that are being held at GameStop stores in the US. The game retailer has announced that there will be lots to do and lots to gets at the events which start at 9 pm on Monday … Read More »
Filed under: Culture, Starcraft II Ah, Comic-Con. In the last few years its turned from being fairly PC and video game free to a place where most of the major publishers are holding court. Who would have thunk it? The free Alien Swarm game from Valve has gotten a new update, mostly for bug fixes. Can you guess what the next game from indie developer Mousechief will be? Kalypso Media sent over word that … Read More »
Blizzard has unleashed the Ghosts of the Past cinematic teaser that will make every StarCraft II fan so excited they will be heading to the midnight launch with excitement begging for a copy. The unlocked content at the Dominion page has reached its 100%, unveiling this cinematic. The cinematic starts with the broken New Gettysburg billboard on the ground. Suddenly materializes the ghosts of the past as Jim Raynor remembers in his mind while … Read More »
It was a while since we had a guest column here on StarCraft: IncGamers, but our long time member Dr4gon has stepped up to take a closer look at the monetary situation of Blizzard, inspired by some of the recent events regarding Activision Blizzard, Battle.net and payments. Blizzard has become as big as it is today primarily through World of WarCraft, but this "cash cow" can hardly keep pumping money for ever. It's by … Read More »
Blizzard community manager Lylirra has answered several question regarding the puzzling activation confusion in different region. It seems like there is no way you can buy a copy of the game and use the key to activate and log on to another region. Isn’t it contradict the earlier reply by another Blizzard employee? My guess is since Europe has one united server, it doesn’t really matter what language client you use. As long as … Read More »
While you wait for the first installment of StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty™, why don’t you play Draco, a browser-based MMORPG by Evolution Vault? To play it all you need is your browser; no downloads are necessary. And the game is completely FREE! Start your journey to the stars in an epic quest of galactic conquest with the Zerg… pardon, the Avatar. I just can’t hope it… they look like the Zerg. The story … Read More »
Filed under: Culture, Multiplayer, RTS, Starcraft II A little while ago Blizzard revealed what European cities would be hosting official midnight launch events on July 27 for the release of StarCraft II. Now the developer has finally revealed the location for the official North American launch event for the game. It will be held at Fry’s Electronics at Fountain Valley, CA on the evening of July 26. Folks lucky enough to live near that … Read More »
The Marauder, Banshee and Spectre are no longer just Terran StarCraft 2 units. Now, they’re also mindblowingly awesome progamer-grade hardware pieces by Razer. The hardware comes with powerful StarCraft 2 specific driver features that allow the peripherals to act as indicators for actual game events as well as show current player APM levels through multiple multi-color lights. Razer Spectre Technical specifications (EST price: 79.99) Lightweight, Fingertip-Grip 5 Button Mouse 5600 DPI Laser Sensor Ultrapolling … Read More »
Blizzard has released what will probably end up being the last StarCraft 2 Beta Patch ever – patch 18. With no drastic adjustments, containing only minor bug fixes, it seems the development team is content with StarCraft 2′s current gameplay state and race balance. General -The Mac StarCraft II Editor is now available! Bug Fixes – Burrowed Ultralisks now have the correct 500 hit points while burrowed. – Fixed an issue where custom … Read More »
Besides the already published Starcraft 2 changes for Patch 16 on Battle.Net forums, there are few several changes not mentioned in the patch notes, such as: For Terran: – Hellions now have a small Cooldown on their rate of fire. – Ghost ability to not attack a nearby enemy unit has been changed to a Toggle ability (useful when cloaked). For Zerg: – Roaches can no longer move under the Sentry Force Fields while … Read More »
With the new Battle.net beta comes some fresh content. As part of this update, Blizzard has uploaded a lot of new artwork and cinematic shots – 42 to be exact. There’s a wide variety here from some beautiful Battlecruiser cinematic shots and some loading screen backgrounds which are mostly planets. If the beauty of some of this doesn’t get you fired up for the upcoming release, then I’m not sure what would! Starcraft 2 … Read More »
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Starcraft 2 | TaultUnleashed Blog - World of Warcraft / MMO's - Cheats, Bots, Guides, and More! - Part 9
