Tag Archives: starcraft
Tue, Feb 14, 2012 | 14:57 GMT
WoW Monopoly and StarCraft RISK games hitting stores later this year
USAOPOLY and Blizzard have announced a partnership which will see the release of Monopoly: World of Warcraft and RISK: StarCraft board games.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, MMO, PC, Strategy
Tags: board games, monopoly, Monopoly: World of Warcraft, RISK: StarCraft, starcraft, world of warcraft, wow
Fri, Oct 28, 2011 | 16:50 BST
Blizzard releases SCII: Heart of the Swarm fact sheet
Blizzard has released a fact sheet for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, which continues the story from Wings of Liberty with a campaign that focuses on Kerrigan, the former Queen of Blades.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Blizzcon 2011, PC, Strategy
Tags: SCII: Heart of the Swarm, starcraft
Wed, Oct 26, 2011 | 13:33 BST
Wednesday shorts: StarCraft II, BF3, Snoop and RAGE
You need to be shortfied. Do it after the break.
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Posted in: Shorts, VG247
Tags: back to the future, Digimon Masters, king of fighter XIII, king of fighters, samwise dider, snoop dogg, snoop. rage, starcraft, starcraft 2, starcraft II, Wednesday Shorts
Sun, Oct 23, 2011 | 00:44 BST
Saturday Shorts: Uncharted 3, Inafune, Bloodforge, Batman, Postal 3, Transformers, The Office
Oh what a day. And it isn’t even over yet, even though it should have been a while ago. Let’s get these shorts out of the way so we can get back to BlizzCon stuff, shall we? We can always have our soup later.
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Posted in: Saturday Shorts, Shorts, VG247
Tags: Arkham City, arkham city map app, batman, Binary Domain, borg, Deadmund’s Quest, Emily the Strange, Gameloft, Jurassic Park, Keiji Inafune, Medieval Moves, Medieval Moves: Deadmund’s Quest, music unlimited update, naughty dog, Order & Chaos, Postal 3, Postal 3: Catharsis, star trek online, starcraft, STO, The Office, uncharted, uncharted 3, us ps movie store updates, vita twitter app
Wed, Aug 17, 2011 | 19:35 BST
Blizzard: No Starcraft MMO planned right now
Blizzard’s revealed it currently doesn’t have any plans to develop a StarCraft MMO.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Gamescom 2011, MMO, PC
Tags: blizzard, MMO, PC, starcraft
Fri, May 06, 2011 | 06:10 BST
Friday Shorts, Overnight Edition – Call of the Dead secrets, Pulse, papercraft
They’re like popcorn, really – you just can’t stop.
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Posted in: App Store, iPad, iPhone, indie
Tags: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Cipher Prime, craft, dead space, papercraft, pulse, Rex Generator, rrod, starcraft, yoichi wada
Wed, Mar 09, 2011 | 02:57 GMT
Latest StarCraft novel dated
The newest entry into the StarCraft canon, novel Devil’s Due, will release on April 12.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy, books
Tags: blizzard, Christie Golden, Devil's Due, licensed, novel, starcraft, starcraft II, tie-in
Tue, Feb 22, 2011 | 23:01 GMT
New US Starcraft II league offers $400k prize pool
A new North American eSports league has been announced, with one of the world’s largest prize pools up for grabs.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy
Tags: blizzard, NASL, North American Star League, Star League, starcraft, starcraft II
Thu, Feb 10, 2011 | 06:59 GMT
Confirmed – Activision chops Guitar Hero and True Crime, no music or Hawk games in ’11
Activision’s just announced it has canned development on True Crime: Hong Kong as well as “disband” the Guitar Hero business unit.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard
Tags: call of duty, guitar hero, starcraft, True Crime: Hong Kong, united front games, world of warcraft
Wed, Jan 26, 2011 | 04:22 GMT
Three unusual custom StarCraft maps up for beta
Feel like a little zombie survival? Some match-three action? A cook-off? Hit up the multiplayer tab in StarCraft II today and you’ll have something to do besides curse other players’ unit spam. Blizzard has made three of its Blizzcon-revealed custom maps available as an opt-in beta.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Casual, PC, Strategy
Tags: Aiur Chef, blizzard, Blizzard DOTA, custom map, Left 2 Die, mod, starcraft, starcraft II, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, Starjeweled
Sat, Jan 22, 2011 | 16:48 GMT
StarCraft AI competition winner describes how his team bested pro-StarCraft player Oriol Vinyals
Haomiao Huang, a student at the University of California Berkeley, has posted over on Ars Technica an explanation of how he and other students won the 2010 StarCraft AI Competition by besting pro-StarCraft player Oriol Vinyals who was “previously ranked best in Spain and ranked among the top 16 players in Europe.”
Fri, Jan 21, 2011 | 01:20 GMT
Blizzard: “never our intention” to shut down World of Starcraft mod
Blizzard has issued a statement explaining its intentions and actions so far regarding this week’s World of Starcraft Starcraft 2 mod, having invited creator Ryan to visit the Blizzard studios and meet the development team.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Hot, Legalities, MMO, PC, Strategy
Tags: blizzard, mod, Riot, riot games, starcraft, starcraft II, World of StarcCraft
Thu, Jan 20, 2011 | 00:42 GMT
World of StarCraft mod videos pulled
Videos of the MMO built from Starcraft II’s own mod creation kit have been pulled from YouTube after the World of StarCraft mod wowed (ha!) the Internet yesterday.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Hot, Legalities, MMO, PC, RPG, Strategy
Tags: mod, starcraft, starcraft II, World of StarCraft
Thu, Jan 13, 2011 | 14:41 GMT
Blizzard details StarCraft II Master League, announces Grandmaster League
Since the release of StarCraft II, Blizzards has been sharing Top 200 lists for so those who wish to keep track player performances in their region can do so. Now that patch 1.2 is out, the developers are launching the Master League, which is “designed to give the best players in each region a new arena in which to prove their skill”.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy
Tags: Grandmaster League, master league, starcraft, starcraft II, starcraft II tournaments
Fri, Nov 05, 2010 | 21:52 GMT
Morhaime: SCII users have created over 65K maps and mods for the game
Getting bored with StarCraft II yet? Of course you’re not, but if you’re in the mood for a bit of a switcheroo, you may want to check out the 65,000 user created maps and mods for the game.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy
Tags: mods, starcraft, starcraft II
Tue, Oct 26, 2010 | 16:33 BST
Alternate online pricing for StarCraft II announced for Southeast Asia
Those keen on playing StarCraft II in Southeast Asia are being given different fee-based options by Blizzard in order to take their game online.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Asia, Hong Kong, PC, Singapore, Strategy, Thailand
Tags: Southeast Asia, starcraft, starcraft II
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 | 20:03 BST
Blizzard files suit against alleged StarCraft II hackers
Earlier this month, Blizzard banned or suspended over 5,000 Battle.net users from the service for cheating or using hacks to play online.
Last week, according to documents filed with the Los Angeles District Court, Blizzard is going after the hackers who created the cheats in court.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, America, Crime, Legalities, PC, Strategy
Tags: starcraft, starcraft II
Tue, Sep 21, 2010 | 17:07 BST
Blizzard developing mods internally for StarCraft II
Blizzard has said it’s to develop mods internally for StarCraft II, in order to offer “polished gameplay experiences” for fans.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy
Tags: Dustin Browder, sc2, scII, starcraft, starcraft 2, starcraft II
Wed, Sep 15, 2010 | 03:43 BST
Blizzard to start banning StarCraft II cheaters
Blizzard has sent out a friendly reminder regarding cheating, exploiting, and/or using hacks in StarCraft II.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy
Tags: starcraft, starcraft II
Tue, Aug 31, 2010 | 04:01 BST
Blizzard wants “right partners” for a StarCraft movie, says James Cameron would fit the bill
“Yes, Mr. Cameron? If you’re not too busy back-stroking in your private water park wave pool filled with half the world’s money, we’ve got someone on the line who might be able to help you scoop up the other half.”
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Hot, Movies, PC, Strategy
Tags: blizzard, james cameron, movie, starcraft
Mass Effect 3 Take Earth Back trailer teased