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The board game creator USAOPOLY and the video game developer Blizzard have announced that they are working together in order to create two new games, Monopoly: World of Warcraft and RISK: Starcraft.
The two companies are saying that the two titles will combine the core gamer foundations of the game board series with... |
15 February 2012
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January is pretty much an empty month when it comes to video game releases and the industry looks to February for a few signs of life, with the “Second Christmas” period set to begin in March and last throughout April and the early parts of May.This is a direct result of the fact that publishers tend to p... |
4 February 2012
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A report from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in South Korea has suggested that the country might move to ban the accounts of all minor players who spend more than two consecutive hours playing online game or more than three hours during any given day. It seems that representatives from the gaming ... |
1 February 2012
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Blizzard has revealed that the next chapter in the Starcraft II trilogy, Heart of the Swarm, will have a shorter single-player campaign, cutting down the number of missions to just 20, as opposed to the first installment, Wings of Liberty, which had 29.Starcraft II is among the many great projects that Blizzard hopes... |
25 October 2011
06:08 GMT |
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Blizzard has just announced that the multiplayer regions in its StarCraft 2 real-time strategy title are set to be linked together, in order to allow players to be more evenly matched and get larger communities to form and play together.
StarCraft 2 was released last year and plenty of gamers have engaged both in ... |
13 July 2011
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IGN Entertainment, a video game focused company that has also made a move into the space of digital distribution recently, has announced that it is creating an eSports league of its own, aiming to get a piece of the competitive video gaming market.
The company has also announced that it is promoting David Ting as ... |
4 July 2011
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After the leak of a teaser trailer and the debut of the first gameplay video, StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, the next chapter in the trilogy of real-time strategy titles from Blizzard has now been detailed by the developer.
Ever since StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty was released last year, fans of the franchise ha... |
1 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The next chapter in the StarCraft 2 trilogy, Heart of the Swarm, just saw its teaser trailer leak onto the web, showcasing some very important hints to its story.
Blizzard surprised its legions of fans when it announced that StarCraft 2 will be a trilogy, with each chapter focusing on a single race from the StarCr... |
30 May 2011
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After being launched last year, StarCraft II has just received three official mods from its developer, Blizzard, which aim at introducing brand new gameplay mechanics into the real-time strategy game.
Blizzard has been trying to fine tune the StarCraft II experience since its release, with the company pushing mult... |
7 April 2011
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StarCraft II, Blizzard's massively successful real-time strategy game, has just received its newest patch in the form of update 1.3.0, which, like always, brings a huge amount of small changes, improvements and fixes to the popular title.
Blizzard has been taking care of StarCraft 2 since its release, launchi... |
23 March 2011
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A recent report coming from Peal Research, a firm that specializes in business intelligence and in consulting, says that the Internet cafe centric gaming culture of Asia is still going strong and that it will be generating revenue of more than 19 million dollars during this year, with the figure apparently set to inc... |
23 March 2011
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Blizzard has once again said that it will deliver the StarCraft 2 marketplace promised back in 2009, so that players can create and share their own custom content with others.
StarCraft 2 has been launched last year into the wide open arms of Blizzard fans all around the world, managing to become the fastest-selli... |
18 March 2011
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StarCraft 2 has just received a brand new patch, taking the game up to version 1.2.1, and fixing quite a lot of issues.
Blizzard is continuing to make fine tweaks through updates and patches to its real-time strategy title, and has issued a brand new update for it, 1.2.1.
Changes were made to the matchmaking sy... |
17 February 2011
17:11 GMT |
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The second chapter of the StarCraft II trilogy, Heart of the Swarm, is unlikely to appear this year, even if Blizzard is working as hard as it can on the new real time strategy title.
StarCraft fans waited for quite a long time before Blizzard released the second installment in the series, so the news that it'... |
15 February 2011
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When developer Blizzard announced they were interested in creating an action shooter spin-off from Starcraft, featuring one of the Human ghosts, a lot of fans were excited about the possibilities of the game only to then have their hopes crushed when the company terminated the development process without much ceremon... |
15 February 2011
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Blizzard, the company behind massively successful franchises like StarCraft or Diablo, as well as the World of Warcraft MMORPG, has just detailed the sixth edition of its BlizzCon event, which will be held on October 21.
Blizzard has a very loyal and extremely large fan base, with World of Warcraft having 12 milli... |
8 February 2011
15:51 GMT |
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StarCraft II has just received a brand new update, 1.2.0, which adds a huge amount of fixes to the popular real time strategy game.Blizzard promised last year that StarCraft II will be receiving more patches and delivered quite a few updates since then. Now, one of the biggest patches in recent times, update 1.2.0 ha... |
12 January 2011
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It seems that Blizzard will not be working on a true strategy based installment for the Warcraft series any time soon despite fans asking for it for quite some time, as it simply lacks the manpower and the talent to take on another big franchise at the moment.Greg Street, who is the systems designer for the Cataclysm... |
9 December 2010
10:33 GMT |
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Blizzard decided to encourage StarCraft II players to stop using third party hacking tools or game trainers, which results in the company banning or suspending their account, and has finally released the complete list of cheats that were implemented by the development team in the best selling real time strategy title... |
3 December 2010
04:15 GMT |
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StarCraft II cheaters have been targeted by Blizzard once more, after the company banned and suspended the accounts for many gamers that used cheats or cheating programs, either in the single-player or the multiplayer modes of the real time strategy title.Blizzard enforced a pretty severe policy for StarCraft II, in ... |
1 December 2010
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StarCraft II will continue to be supported by its developer, Blizzard, even if the company is hard at work making the next chapter in the trilogy, called Heart of the Swarm and focusing on the Zerg faction.StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty was just released this year, and it became one of the most popular real time stra... |
26 October 2010
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Blizzard has just revealed that it will be offering limited streaming coverage of this weekend's BlizzCon event, besides the premium streaming service it is offering in HD.This weekend will be extremely important for all Blizzard fans, as the company is holding its annual BlizzCon event, where it will talk about... |
20 October 2010
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StarCraft II, one of the biggest real time strategy titles of the year, has just received its newest patch, the 1.1.2 one, which will fix more balancing issues and affect each of the game's factions.StarCraft II is currently the most popular RTS in the world, and was finally released by Blizzard after a long and... |
15 October 2010
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StarCraft II is this year's biggest RTS, thanks to its immersive single-player campaign, but also to its addictive online multiplayer system, so its developer, Blizzard, has been really keen on patching and balancing the online component so that all players will have a chance against others.We've already se... |
8 October 2010
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StarCraft II is by far the biggest real time strategy title of the year, and as such, Blizzard, its developer and publisher, is taking strict action against those that try to cheat during multiplayer matches, with the latest batch of suspensions and bans going to around 5,000 users.StarCraft II was one of the first t... |
5 October 2010
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StarCraft II, the year's biggest real time strategy title, has already received its first patch last week, but that hasn't stopped Blizzard's' Chris Sigaty from talking about the next patch, which he hopes will be launched before the end of the year.The previous StarCraft II patch has been reveale... |
28 September 2010
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Blizzard Entertainment has rolled out the first patch for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, bringing the game to version 1.1.0 with tons of new additions and improvements, including Support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, a new Quick Save option, a new game clock, an enhanced map editor, and a special tweak for Mac users-only re... |
22 September 2010
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StarCraft II, by far one of the most expected video games of the year, has just received its first patch, taking it to 1.1.0 status, which adds solves a host of balance issues, brings new features to the map editor and, hopefully, will solve some of the complaints lodged by players.StarCraft II's patch is alread... |
22 September 2010
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It's getting harder to sell video games to players mainly because of a weak economy which reduces disposable income that can be directed to entertainment and because of the rise of the free to play model and of titles that can be enjoyed on social networks. For Activision, one of the biggest publishers in the wo... |
5 August 2010
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Blizzard Entertainment has released Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, delivering the most highly-anticipated RTS game to gamers worldwide, including those rocking Mac OS X. The game is being made available in both retail boxed version, and as a digital download. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is the sequel to Blizzard ... |
28 July 2010
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the sequel to the original 1998 video game by Blizzard Entertainment, is coming on July 27 for Mac OS X, the creators of the game have confirmed. Developed for concurrent release on Windows and Mac OS X, StarCraft II is split into three installments: the base game with the subtitle Win... |
22 July 2010
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Blizzard Entertainment has posted the official system requirements for the Mac version StarCraft II, the studio’s highly anticipated sci-fi real-time-strategy (RTS) video game. Unfortunately for those using a three-year old Mac, the game may not perform as expected - the recommended spec is 4GB of RAM and GeFor... |
21 July 2010
05:03 GMT |
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Blizzard has announced Korean gamers who own an active World of Warcraft account will get to play StarCraft II for free as long as they maintain their subscription. Chris Sigaty, lead producer of the game, said that this was meant to be “a way of giving something back to such a supportive and skilled community ... |
28 June 2010
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There are some new developments to report in the Starcraft match-fixing scandal that goes on right now in the Korean professional gaming leagues. The Korean e-Sports Players Association has banned all the 11 players who were involved from the official competitions and leagues and will also erase them from its records... |
8 June 2010
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16 people have been indicted with rigging games and placing illegal bets in the match-fixing scandal that has recently taken place in the Korean pro-gaming Starcraft community. While the South Korean law somewhat protects the identities of people involved in on-going legal investigations, the little information revea... |
18 May 2010
09:36 GMT |
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Blizzard has recently announced that it has banned no less than 320,000 Battle.net accounts involved in violations of the Terms of Use. Basically, all these people cheated when playing either real time strategy Warcraft III or hack and slash role playing game Diablo II and were caught doing it.Those who did something... |
23 April 2010
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Serving as one of the places for small, but significant announcements regarding Blizzard games, the Battle.net forums have revealed that the upcoming StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will follow the company's tradition of including both Mac and PC versions on the DVD installation disc. A recent post on the offici... |
1 February 2010
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This year, BlizzCon gathered over 20,000 fans at the Anaheim Convention Center. Gamers from all over the world came to celebrate alongside Blizzard Entrainment the magic that were and still are Stracraft, Diablo and Warcraft. This year, Blizzard charged $125 for the entry fee, which makes perfect sense, since any sel... |
18 September 2009
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Even the gaming world usually looks down on those passionate gamers who are interested enough in a videogame-inspired universe in order to put pen to paper (in this day and age, we’re talking abut keyboard to monitor) in order to create new story lines and events in those universes.But it seems that gaming comp... |
16 March 2009
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Video game development involves big amounts of money being invested in the successful creation of one title, but also in the undefeated players of those games, who have become the best at their respective titles, managing to beat all the other contenders. Professional gaming has caught on quite fast, but while it is... |
16 March 2009
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Blizzard Entertainment has released an update for the Mac version of StarCraft and its expansion Broodwar. Version 1.16.1 introduces an Enable CPU Throttling option for limiting CPU cycles, a fix for the recently added "/reply" command, and various other fixes and tweaks. Head over below for the full scoop, and the d... |
23 January 2009
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Blizzard Entertainment has released an update for Mac users and fans of the world's most popular RTS title, StarCraft. The update brings StarCraft to version 1.16 on Mac, and includes new / changed features, bug fixes, as well as exploit fixes. Particularly, feature changes include: in-game chat is now saved in ... |
28 November 2008
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Blizzard is one of the most popular game developers out there, largely due to the fact that its policy is to sell titles that offer deep stories and well polished experiences, with hardly any bugs or glitches that might ruin the game for the player.The online server system of the company, Battle.Net, has withstood th... |
13 November 2008
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World of Warcraft is one of the biggest MMORPG, or Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games, out there. It has over 11 million subscribers worldwide and dominates the market with over 62 %. With the release of its second expansion pack, entitled Wrath of the Lich King, the MMORPG is still doing great and thing... |
20 October 2008
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We live in troubled times – the current financial crisis is becoming more and more aggravated each day and no company is safe from the terrible effects of this severe condition. But out of the industries that were affected by the crisis, one has proven itself to be quite safe for investors, the gaming one. Alth... |
20 October 2008
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Blizzard has updated StarCraft for Mac to version 1.15.3. The patch fixes a communication bug affecting third party leagues, also offering players a quality experience on versions of Mac OS X which do not support 256-color mode. A few fixes have also been included for Windows users.Among the many impressive features ... |
17 September 2008
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Before going into details I must confess that Galactic Dream: Rage of War is a frustrating experience from a reviewer's point of view. It was created by a little known developer called Evolution Vault, which then got a distribution deal with Strategy First. It's a real space strategy game which promises con... |
8 August 2008
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Let's face it, Blizzard is not the best developer in the world and I have to say, from my perspective, it has only released mediocre games so far. I know many will disagree and I'm sure I'll get my share of bashing, but I truly believe World of Warcraft is the reason why the gaming world today is in su... |
27 June 2008
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What's better than playing Starcraft II and maybe, just maybe, Diablo III? Some would say that going to a BlizzCon is one experience that can't be matched by playing games, a one in your lifetime opportunity to go deep into the gaming nexus that is Blizzard. If you're a Blizzard fan, you can be cheery,... |
13 May 2008
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