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The organizers of the Major League Gaming circuit have announced that the 2012 season of the competition will see the introduction of the Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, the strategy title from Blizzard, as an official game and the launch of an all new event called the Winter Arena.Until February 8 gamers who have re... |
23 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has introduced the BattleTags feature for all its video games and the forum structure, meaning that all players have the option to adopt an official name that can be used across all Blizzard made products.At the moment players use the character name for each title in order to post on the... |
19 December 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Blizzard has just kicked off a massive sale on its online store, slashing prices on a variety of content, including World of Warcraft, its various expansions and downloadable content, not to mention StarCraft II, although that offer is just available for European customers.The end of December will be a tough time for... |
8 December 2011
12:11 GMT |
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Blizzard has cut down the price of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty in its online store from 60 dollars to just 30 (44.5 Euro to 22.25) and the offer seems to be linked to both the boxed version and the digitally distributed version, although at the moment the offer is only available for those in the United States unti... |
23 November 2011
08:14 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that its upcoming hack and slash title Diablo III will have between 13,000 and 16,000 lines of dialog split between the various characters classes and the NPCs that players will meet throughout the experience.Starcraft II, the real time strategy game from the same developer... |
2 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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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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Video game developer Blizzard has announced some new information about the Heart of the Swarm expansion for its real time strategy game Starcraft II, confirming that it will have a single player campaign which includes 20 missions and talking about some new units and maps.The new campaign will be focused on Sarah Ker... |
24 October 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has released another trailer for its upcoming Heart of the Swarm expansion for Starcraft II, showing off some more cinematic moments that hint at a large and convoluted plot and showing some gameplay.The first information on the game was offered in June this year and the company will pro... |
24 October 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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Blizzard Entertainment has released StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty version 1.4.0, a downloadable patch containing minor cosmetic alterations and a bunch of fixes.Patch 1.4.0 may not be one of the most highly anticipated of updates, but it does deliver a considerable amount of general changes, such as a new Career pag... |
22 September 2011
10:59 GMT |
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We already know that Blizzard is aiming to launch its own version of DOTA for the Starcraft II real time strategy game at some point during 2012, close to the launch date for the Heart of the Swarm expansion, but we know little about the experience that the mod will be offering. Two leading developers at Blizzard ha... |
23 August 2011
18:41 GMT |
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The interest of the multiplayer battle arena fans has lately been linked to the Valve created Dota 2, which is being unveiled at Gamescom via a tournament with a big prize of 1 million dollars, and to the new expansion that is coming to League of Legends.But the core concepts of the Defense of the Ancients like games... |
19 August 2011
05:18 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that it has replaced the previous demo for the Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty real-time strategy game with a new Starter Edition , which allows players access to more content without asking them to pay anything. All that's required to access the new Starter Edition fo... |
4 August 2011
05:44 GMT |
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We already know that players will need to always be online in order to be able to play the upcoming Diablo III and that the game will now offer an auction house system that allows for the use of real world money and now Blizzard has dropped another big piece of news about its next big project by saying that the title... |
2 August 2011
02:38 GMT |
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It's the week before the E3 industry trade show, which usually means little in the way of very important news as everybody is keeping their powder dry for the floor and press conferences, but we still managed to post a Quick Look for Dungeons & Dragons – Daggerdale, one for Hunted: The Demon's Forge a... |
5 June 2011
06:01 GMT |
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The developers at Blizzard have not said exactly when they planned to launch the second installment in the Starcraft II saga, called Heart of the Swarm, but they are now ready to talk about the structure of the new game, including the central role that Kerrigan, former Terran Ghost and now Queen of Blades, would play... |
1 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Gaming network NetEase, one of the biggest on the Chinese market, has announced that it has increased revenue by a full 25 percent when compared to the previous fiscal year and seems to be in advanced negotiations with publisher Activision Blizzard linked with bringing the Call of Duty series to China.
The company a... |
24 May 2011
10:19 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 Entertainment has launched version 1.3.3 of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty for Mac OS X. The patch features adjustments to race balance, as well as various other enhancements and bug fixes.One of the first documented changes is related to the default hotkey to toggle in-game music on/off. It has been reverte... |
11 May 2011
10:09 GMT |
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When Inno3D first announced its GTX 560 Ti iChill graphics card, the company has kept quiet about the exact specifications of the card and its retail price, but these details have now come to light as the GTX 560 iChill has become available for purchase in China.
The Inno3D iChill version of the GTX 560 Ti uses th... |
15 April 2011
08:36 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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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
04:35 GMT |
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Developer Blizzard Entertainment has announced that on March 29 it will begin a beta testing phase for the Chinese version of its real-time strategy hit Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, with the plan being to launch the game during this year on the Chinese market.The beta test period will allow players to create an ac... |
21 March 2011
06:51 GMT |
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Blizzard is one of the most secretive companies in the video game business, offering the minimum amount of information about its big projects before the official reveals and refusing to commit to launch dates before they are sure about the quality of their titles.
And the fact that Blizzard is talking about its ne... |
10 March 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty has been launched during the summer of 2010 and went on to be a hit when it comes to a PC-only strategy game, managing to quickly take the place of the original game in the series in the e-sports world, specifically South Korea.
But the process of creating the game was hard and Dusti... |
7 March 2011
16:31 GMT |
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It's now official that video game publisher Electronic Arts, with a new development studio called Victory Games, is going to create and release a new game in the Command & Conquer franchise, after pronouncing it utterly dead after the release of the fourth game.
I loved the Command & Conquer games and I am in... |
5 March 2011
07:01 GMT |
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One of the most ambitious announcement that Blizzard made at the 2009 edition of BlizzCon has been that it was planning to deliver a Battle.net based Marketplace which would allow modders to sell their content for actual currency in a secure way.
It's been more than one year and Starcraft II has been out for ... |
22 February 2011
18:41 GMT |
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We've returned to the Incoming 2011 series this week, previewing some of the most important video game launches that will be happening this year, but we also have a Quick Look for the free-to-play and browser-based Battlestar Galactica Online.We also reviewed Stacking, the latest game from Tim Schafer.Our Weeken... |
20 February 2011
08:01 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
18:01 GMT |
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Blizzard, the company behind successful franchises like StarCraft, World of Warcraft or Diablo, has just issued a statement concerning the recent World of StarCraft mod project, which appeared from a developer in the community.
There's been quite a lot of debate recently about a World of StarCraft mod project... |
21 January 2011
17:21 GMT |
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A new mod project that recently appeared on the web, called World of StarCraft, which was created by a young developer using the tools in StarCraft II, is now targeted by Blizzard and its legal forces, without any sort of explanation.Blizzard, the company behind franchises like StarCraft, Diablo or World of Warcraft,... |
20 January 2011
18:01 GMT |
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The NPD Group, the company that tracks hardware and video game sales for the North American market, has announced that internal projections show that overall spending on gaming during 2010 has reached between 15.4 and 15.6 billion dollars, which is pretty much the same number as reported for 2009.
The number stand... |
20 January 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Another 2011 week has passed and we've been playing the first new games of the year, which we will talk about next week, when Dead Space 2 and Little Big Planet 2 are also set to arrive. In the meantime we took a trip on nostalgia lane and posted a set of Gamer Diaries that are linked to Left 4 Dead 2 and the z... |
16 January 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has released its latest patch for StarCraft II, the studio’s newly-launched real time strategy game. Available as a free download for Mac OS X and Windows PC users alike, the release brings important changes and bug fixes.
The first documented change is that Battle.net Chat Channels ha... |
12 January 2011
08:12 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
04:25 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
17:21 GMT |
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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
04:09 GMT |
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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
05:22 GMT |
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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
03:18 GMT |
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Developer Blizzard has made public the official schedule, with events and panels, of the upcoming BlizzCon event, which will be taking place in Anaheim Convention Center on Friday, October 22 and Saturday, October 23, with the highlights being panels about the upcoming role playing game Diablo III and about the next ... |
7 October 2010
04:40 GMT |
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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
02:24 GMT |
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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
03:41 GMT |
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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
03:50 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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A Blizzard executive has confirmed that the company is interested in translating its biggest video game franchises, like Starcraft, into movies but will aim to create partnerships with the most talented creators in the industry, like James Cameron, who directed the recent three dimensional hit Avatar.Rob Pardo, who i... |
1 September 2010
03:20 GMT |
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It's been a less busy week, after the organized chaos of Gamescom but we still have a list of all the most interesting news of the past seven days and more than that for intrepid readers.The Weekend Reading piece talks about how the huge amount of big video games launched during the fall means that all gaming is... |
29 August 2010
14:01 GMT |
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This week, like the last one, was dominated by Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, with some more gamer diaries to show for all the time spent with Blizzard's latest. But we also found bit of time to craft a Weekend Reading feature that talks how Heart of the Swarm needs to take some chances and an EndWeekGame artic... |
8 August 2010
08:51 GMT |
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Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is without a doubt a success story. It's a real time strategy title which is launched exclusively on the PC and forms only the first part of a trilogy that Blizzard will create over the coming years. It managed millions of units since it first appeared on shelves at through Battle.... |
7 August 2010
08:11 GMT |
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