{"id":1371,"date":"2010-08-23T17:04:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T00:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2010-08-24T03:28:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T10:28:55","slug":"battle-net-updates-and-geforce-gtx-460-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/battle-net-updates-and-geforce-gtx-460-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle.net Updates and GeForce GTX 460 Contest Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Battle.net that had launched with StarCraft 2 might have taken many users by surprise &#8211; if they did not keep up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sc2blog.com\/2009\/08\/19\/starcraft-2-single-player-campaign-videos-screens-details\/\" target=\"_blank\">SC news during development<\/a> &#8211; with its permanent character names and the lack of chatrooms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sc2blog.com\/2010\/07\/06\/pre-launch-social-regional-and-pricing-concerns-addressed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blizzard has promised to bring chat rooms back<\/a> within a few patches, and now, gamers not happy with their handles will be offered a name change for free soon as well. Why bother writing &#8220;<em>free<\/em>&#8220;? Well, because <a href=\"http:\/\/us.battle.net\/sc2\/en\/blog\/572264\">Blizzard will be charging for Battle.net name changes<\/a> in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The recent 1.0.3 patch continued the tradition of <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.battle.net\/sc2\/en\/blog\/407877\">providing a minor bug fix<\/a> while leaving gameplay balance intact.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Bug Fixes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"> Fixed an issue preventing some players from accessing offline play from the login screen<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Our Nvidia-sponsored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sc2blog.com\/2010\/08\/10\/geforce-gtx-460-giveaway-create-a-starcraft-flipbook\/\">GeForce GTX 460 StarCraft 2 flipbook contest<\/a> came to an end this weekend, bringing multiple interesting submissions. As promised, the winner of the contest will be awarded with a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sc2blog.com\/2010\/08\/02\/starcraft-2-benchmarked-nvidia-geforce-gtx-460-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">EVGA GeForce GTX 460<\/a> 768MB <\/strong> and the runner up will receive a <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.steelseries.com\/us\/index.php\/surfaces-us\/steelseries-qck-marine.html\">SteelSeries limited edition professional grade StarCraft 2 mousepad<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.steelseries.com\/us\/index.php\/surfaces-us\/steelseries-qck-marine.html\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second place, along with the mousepad, goes to <strong>Stephen Barnes<\/strong> for\u00a0submitting this\u00a0animated battle, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=irEeF3R6AQs\">&#8220;Death From Above&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winner of the contest is <strong>Nadya Emmyl <\/strong>from Stary Oskol, Russia, who submitted this excellent animated reenactment\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aG6CDJIgqvI\" target=\"_blank\">Kerrigan&#8217;s last stand on New Gettysburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.sc2blog.com\/wp-content\/sc2-c.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sc2blog.com\/wp-content\/sc2-c.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div class=\"fblike_button\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sc2blog.com%2F2010%2F08%2F23%2Fbattle-net-updates-and-geforce-gtx-460-contest-winners%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=dark\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:23px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cyGcGQ6D92BD_Os82jDU3o5hQrk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cyGcGQ6D92BD_Os82jDU3o5hQrk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cyGcGQ6D92BD_Os82jDU3o5hQrk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cyGcGQ6D92BD_Os82jDU3o5hQrk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/StarCraft-2?a=hb4DMlZlmxc:WHNJxW5rISk:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/StarCraft-2?i=hb4DMlZlmxc:WHNJxW5rISk:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/StarCraft-2?a=hb4DMlZlmxc:WHNJxW5rISk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/StarCraft-2?i=hb4DMlZlmxc:WHNJxW5rISk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/StarCraft-2?a=hb4DMlZlmxc:WHNJxW5rISk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/StarCraft-2?i=hb4DMlZlmxc:WHNJxW5rISk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/StarCraft-2?a=hb4DMlZlmxc:WHNJxW5rISk:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/StarCraft-2?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/StarCraft-2\/~4\/hb4DMlZlmxc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/StarCraft-2\/~3\/hb4DMlZlmxc\/\">SC2 Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Battle.net that had launched with StarCraft 2 might have taken many users by surprise &#8211; if they did not keep up with SC news during development &#8211; with its permanent character names and the lack of chatrooms. Blizzard has promised to bring chat rooms back within a few patches, and now, gamers not happy with their handles will be offered a name change for free soon as well. Why bother writing &#8220;free&#8220;? &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/battle-net-updates-and-geforce-gtx-460-contest-winners\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[31,81,539,568,82],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}