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The Major League Gaming association has announced that the upcoming Winter Championships event will see Halo: Reach return as a competitive video game franchise, with players able to compete with each other for a prize pool that comes in at 56,000 dollars (42,089 Euro).
The Winter Championship will take place betwee... |
10 February 2012
02:27 GMT |
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After announcing the monitor at the beginning of September, BenQ has now started selling the RL2240H 21.5-inch display developed especially to cater to the needs of RTS players.This is the second monitor developed especially for gaming by the Taiwanese company after the XL2410T model that targeted FPS players.The mon... |
3 November 2011
10:23 GMT |
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In a rather stealthy move, Blizzard has deployed a new patch for its StarCraft II real time strategy title, in form of update 1.4.0, which brings a wide variety of changes, some new features, and an array of bug fixes that solve many issues reported by players.
Blizzard is working on quite a few projects recently,... |
23 September 2011
02:14 GMT |
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Started with the XL2410T monitor released last year, BenQ keeps expanding its lineup of gaming displays with the newly announced RL2240H, which was specially developed to cater to the needs of RTS players everywhere.The monitor was developed by the Taiwanese company together with gaming gear manufacturer Zowie Gear a... |
6 September 2011
10:07 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
18:21 GMT |
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Blizzard has confirmed that it will be bringing playable versions of both its upcoming Diablo III dungeon crawler role-playing game, as well as the recently confirmed StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, at this year's Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany.
Blizzard has quite a lot of projects set to appear in ... |
8 July 2011
18:01 GMT |
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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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After the leaked teaser at the beginning of the week, StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm has now received its official debut trailer, complete with gameplay footage from the upcoming strategy game as well as a few cinematic sequences.
StarCraft 2 is by far the most popular real-time strategy franchise in the world, a... |
31 May 2011
04:45 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
04:50 GMT |
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Blizzard has just deployed the newest patch for its StarCraft 2 real time strategy title, bringing an array of bug fixes as well as fixing quite a few balancing issues encountered by players of the very popular PC game.StarCraft 2 has received quite a lot of updates in recent months, as Blizzard wants to seriously ad... |
12 May 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Blizzard has just deployed patch 1.3.2 for its massively popular StarCraft 2 real-time strategy title, fixing an array of issues and glitches encountered by playersStarCraft 2 was released over half a year ago, and, since then, Blizzard has been updating the title with new patches and updates like clockwork.The strat... |
15 April 2011
05:35 GMT |
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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
04:21 GMT |
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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
18:21 GMT |
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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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Developer Blizzard has released a demo version of its hit real-time strategy-title Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, available on both the PC and the Mac for all those who are interested in seeing how the game plays out.The initial release of Starcraft 2 happened on July 27, 2010, which means that the demo is about 5 mo... |
22 December 2010
05:15 GMT |
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A leak of important launch milestones from the Chinese division of Blizzard suggests that the company is set to further expand its Battle.net service, aiming to allow third parties to sell their titles on it at some point in early 2012, after introducing a Map Market, presumably aimed at Starcraft 2 gamers, during ne... |
10 December 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Frank Pearce, who is an executive at and also one of the co-founders of developer Blizzard, has said that the release during the same calendar year of both Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty and the Cataclysm expansion for the MMO World of Warcraft is just a coincidence and not a sign of a new approach from Blizzard when ... |
10 December 2010
03:31 GMT |
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A key cinematic from the Starcraft 2 real time strategy Heart of the Swarm series seems to have been leaked online, showing a sequence which appears to be positioned somewhere towards the end of the narrative structure (the full video can be seen at the end of this article).
Some sites are claiming that the leaked... |
9 December 2010
04:47 GMT |
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An executive from Blizzard has stated that his company might soon take legal action against those Korean television stations that are broadcasting tournaments built around Starcraft, the real time strategy game series, without explicit approval from the developers.
The Korea Times newspaper quotes Paul Sams, who i... |
6 December 2010
05:08 GMT |
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A video shows the real time strategy title Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty played on 3M Multi-Touch Display, with the two players handling all input via finger presses and with the game fully playable without any modifications made to the source code of the game.The official description for the video says that “E... |
29 November 2010
04:43 GMT |
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An analyst has said that Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, the real time strategy blockbuster from Blizzard, could be officially launched in China during next year, with the developer and its Chinese partner NetEase now working with the Communist government to gain approval for the game.Doug Creutz, who is an analyst fo... |
23 November 2010
16:31 GMT |
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A report from TorrentFreak cites, amongst other statistics, the fact that the torrent file for the real time strategy Starcraft 2: The Wings of Liberty has been downloaded more than 2.3 million times since the game has been released in July of this year, leading to a total of 15.77 Petabytes of data downloaded.This m... |
17 November 2010
17:51 GMT |
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Publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that it has managed to being in more revenue and generate more profit in the third fiscal quarter, which ended on September 30, that it was predicting, beating even the prediction of analysts focusing on the video game industry.The company has reported revenues that went ov... |
8 November 2010
05:20 GMT |
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The project director for the Battle.net service has suggested that, at some point in the future, the infrastructure will accommodate other Activision published titles, like the Call of Duty franchise, although at the moment the service is only linked to Blizzard made video game.Greg Canessa has said that the experien... |
29 October 2010
03:20 GMT |
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The developers working on World of Warcraft and Diablo III at Blizzard have again talked, at the official BlizzCon event, about bringing the company's video game to devices like the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 or the Nintendo Wii, saying that they will only do it when the experience is better than that on the PC... |
26 October 2010
05:03 GMT |
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At the recent BlizzCon event the developers at Blizzard have talked about Heart of the Swarm, the next installment in the Starcraft 2 trilogy, saying that players will not get their eager hands on it before the end of next year but also suggesting that the new game might answer some of the questions which have been l... |
25 October 2010
18:01 GMT |
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It seems that developer and publisher Blizzard, the creator of the Diablo series and the World of Warcraft MMO, is not satisfied with banning cheats from Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, even those who only play the single player, and has now taken steps to sue those who have offered hacks and trainers for its real tim... |
18 October 2010
05:20 GMT |
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Evidence suggests that Blizzard, the creator of Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, is banning those users that rely on trainers and other external programs to affect the single player portion of the real time strategy game, even if they are not interested in cheating in the multiplayer element of the game.A gamer nicknam... |
12 October 2010
04:39 GMT |
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A executive at developer Blizzard has stated that the next chapter in the Starcraft 2 saga will not come earlier than 18 months from now, justifying the decision of his company not too talk about the Heart of the Swarm episode too much at the upcoming BlizzCon event.Speaking at the GDC Online conference in Texas Crai... |
8 October 2010
03:48 GMT |
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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty played it safe. Blizzard created a real time strategy sequel that fans waited for the better part of 10 years but made very small actual changes to the game formula. Clicks per minute were still crucial to multiplayer success, counters needed to be learned and resource gatherer protectio... |
2 October 2010
09:01 GMT |
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It's been a shorter than usual week here at Softpedia and a busy one, with both H.A.W.X. 2 from Ubisoft and Halo: Reach getting plenty of play time, as exemplified by two Quick Looks and one Gamer Diary talking about the overall feel of the two titles.And for those who love to read about video games we also have... |
26 September 2010
09:41 GMT |
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This week I've been partly enjoying and partly hating R.U.S.E., the real time strategy game based in World War II created by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft, for reasons which are more thoroughly described in my review.One of the undeniable strong points of the R.U.S.E. experience has been the way it mana... |
18 September 2010
08:31 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer at Activision Blizzard, has suggested that publishers might be interesting in creating video games based movies that will be delivered to fans without the use of traditional media channels.Talking at the audience at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Media, Communicatio... |
17 September 2010
03:05 GMT |
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Developer Blizzard has launched a tough ultimatum to players who are cheating their way to victory in the multiplayer component of Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, saying that all those who the company judges to be breaking the end user license agreement will be banned from the online component of the game, which is po... |
15 September 2010
05:54 GMT |
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Legitimate software products are often at the core of malware spreading tactics, with Starcraft II Wings of Liberty already abused by attackers in order to infect the PCs of unsuspecting victims. Earlier this summer, just as the second iteration of Starcraft was launched, Microsoft warned that fake Wings of Liberty ... |
13 September 2010
02:42 GMT |
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As the competition on the graphics card market intensifies, manufacturers keep looking for new ways of boosting their products' appeal, and MSI has now begun to bundle coupons for StarCraft II trial versions with all GeForce models above N240GT.As come end-users may have already found out, it was recently revea... |
10 September 2010
06:15 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I think I am done with Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. I have not need to go back and get more Achievements, even if some of them seem interesting when I read about them on the post match screen.I also have no inclination to get back into multiplayer and loose more games in an almost shameful manne... |
13 August 2010
16:21 GMT |
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NCAA Football 11 from Electronic Arts for the Xbox 360 game console is the best selling video game for the month of July, according to figures from the NPD Group, but the company says that not included Starcraft 2 managed to sell more than 700,000 at the end of the month.The overall value of video game sales reached ... |
13 August 2010
03:47 GMT |
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The online video game market in South Korea could increase in value to more than 2 billion dollars during the course of 2011, mainly because the game companies working in the country will aim to expand their business in other territories. The figure comes from a new study put together by Pearl Research of San Jose an... |
11 August 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty is without question the biggest video game launch of the moment and after getting to grips with both the single player and the multiplayer element of the title some players are now looking to Blizzard, the developers of the real time strategy title, to talk about the enhancements that th... |
3 August 2010
06:16 GMT |
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How much interest can one video game release garner from analysts of the industry? A lot if we are talking about Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, the real time strategy title from Blizzard that was launched during last week. Various analysts have said that the game could sell more than 7 million units during this year... |
2 August 2010
07:52 GMT |
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Starcraft is back and it's as better as it was ten years. The overall world of real time strategy might have morphed, taking on a more tactical and role playing shift in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 and a previously lost grandeur in Supreme Commander 2. But Starcraft 2 is not a game that innovation lovers wil... |
30 July 2010
05:45 GMT |
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Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty has finally been launched ten years after the original came out and a lot of attention is focused on Blizzard Entertainment, one of the most successful companies working in the video games industry at the moment. Talking to MCV Michael Ryder, who is the vice president and in charge of i... |
29 July 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is now out and we've got both a One Hour With and a game diary showing off what the new real time strategy title has to offer. But the developers at Blizzard, fresh from launching their first non World of Warcraft related video game in years, are thinking about the future, which in... |
29 July 2010
06:18 GMT |
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It has happened to both Windows 7 and Office 2010, and many other pieces of software, and now it’s the turn of the recently launched Starcraft II Wings of Liberty. Microsoft has warned that fake Starcraft 2 files associated with illegal, pirated copies of the game from Blizzard, contain malware, with downloads ... |
28 July 2010
07:32 GMT |
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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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This week the news was dominated by the war on the used games market, with Electronic Arts acting with initiatives like the Online Pass and the Ten Dollars Project, THQ following with UFC Undisputed 2010 and Ubisoft watching to see how it all plays out. We also got into the fray with this week's Weekend Reading ... |
23 May 2010
07:11 GMT |
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When faced with a choice of seeing Paris, with its beautiful coffee joints, Le Tour Eiffel, the breathtaking boulevards and the sumptuous museums, or going nearby to Versailles to attend the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, what would you do? That's a question that can separate a gamer from a normal man. I would... |
18 March 2008
05:02 GMT |
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Blizzard has some candy for us, Starcraft fans and it's not even Halloween time yet! It turns out that the producer of the most famous RTS game ever has revealed a new unit from the long-awaited Starcraft 2 title. It's a brand new tank named Thor and it will make the famous Mammoth Tank seem like a bicycl... |
6 September 2007
05:03 GMT |
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Stuff like this just makes you want to throw your computer out the window. If you're an EVE fan, then you've surely had your ups and downs with the game, but mostly downs. Just as one scandal is put to rest, another emerges. This time: favoured players by CCP employees.This open letter, posted by ex EVE Pla... |
26 May 2007
08:23 GMT |
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