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The release of Heart of the Swarm puts StarCraft II on track to be one of the greatest games ever made. Patrick Garratt luxuriates in what is likely to be a trilogy like no other.

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The second part of the StarCraft II trilogy is out now. Patrick Garratt plays through the opening hours, emerging a level 10, gum-chewing brosef on a mission to burrow for love and honour.

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Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm will be arriving in our homes in just a few short weeks, but in the meantime Blizzard has a new trailer, dubbed “Vengeance,” to show us. But they can’t just show it to us. They want to make an event out of it.
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StarCraft w: Heart of the Swarm is getting new units, and Kotaku has posted a video showing off the new units in multiplayer. The closed beta is currently available only to a select set, and regular players base will soon be able to get in on the action, according to Blizzard. StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm has not been dated but we might see it before the end of the year.

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Blizzard has quietly launched a beta for Starcraft Arcade, a marketplace which monetises mods.

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Blizzard will bring a much-requested feature to Starcraft II at or around the launch of Heart of the Swarm, allowing players from different territories to play together.

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Blizzard has announced it will offer a beta sneak peek of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm to those attending Major League Gaming’s Pro Circuit Spring Championship event. Taking place June 8-10 at the Anaheim Convention Center, public demo stations will allow attendees to try out the latest multiplayer build of the upcoming beta test. During the event, StarCraft II pro-gamers will battle for $76,000 in prize money with the first place finisher taking home $25,000. In addition, the USA national finals for the StarCraft II World Championship Series will take place. Participants will be competing for $30,000 as well as invitations to the North America continental finals. The top finishers in that event will represent their countries at the Battle.net World Championship event in Asia. For more information, hit up the links.

Starcraft II’s first expansion, Heart of the Swarm, has undergone some serious tinkering since players last got a good look at it during last year’s Blizzcon.

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A major patch for Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is on the way, ahead of the first expansion.

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Three games this year? BlizzCon’s 2012 is no more, but people shouldn’t panic over the loss of the most enthusiastic fan event in gaming’s calendar, says Johnny Cullen.

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The re-christened Blizzard Arcade will finally allow creative types turn the hours they pour into mods and custom maps into delicious cashmoney.

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During BlizzCon’s opening ceremony, Blizzard dropped a few nice bits of news for Diablo III and World of Warcraft fans. Nathan Grayson was there, and liveblogged the happenings for us.

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Remember Blizzard DOTA? It was announced long ago, in the far reaches of last year, during BlizzCon. And then…? Silence. Other StarCraft II mods came and went, but DOTA took its bounty of beloved Blizzard heroes and faded into obscurity. Well, until now, obviously. Otherwise, this would be a really disappointing article.

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It’s all about the rage in HotS. The rage. Potential spoilers for Wings of Liberty inside.

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Blizzard Poland has confirmed on its Battle.net blog that StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm will be at gamescom next month.

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And the blowout on StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm continues. This time, Blizzard’s released a trailer which mixes gameplay and story scenes from the game. Most of the story stuff you would have probably seen from the leaked teaser last week. Get the impressions that went live yesterday here, and watch the new video below (via EvAv).

Zerg-led Heart of the Swarm has no date, but a 2012 launch is likely.

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The embargo on the first impressions of the second part of StarCraft II, Heart of the Swarm, has just lifted. The impressions follow a leak on the game last week with its first teaser and the first screens coming earlier this morning. You can get the previews below. Heart of the Swarm has no date yet, but a 2011 release is unlikely.

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Dutch site InsideGamer‘s gone live with the first screenshots of the second StarCraft II story chapter Heart of the Swarm, following a leak of its first teaser last week. You can get more of them from the link, but it’s not exactly the biggest surprise in the world to hear they feature Kerrigan and Zerg-based things. Heart of the Swarm, which follows Wings of Liberty and comes before Protoss-based Legacy of the Void, has no release date yet.

Thanks, GAF.

Boom! Right out of left-field, the first teaser trailer for the second part of the StarCraft II story arc, Zerg-based Heart of the Swarm, has been posted online.

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We believe an “oops” is in order.

Actually, not an “oops,” but rather THE “oops” – the “oops” by which all other “oopses” shall henceforth be judged.

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