Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase today announced that they will be co-hosting the Battle.net World Championship in Shanghai, China on Saturday, November 17 and Sunday, November 18, 2012. The Battle.net World Championship will bring to a riveting conclusion Blizzard’s 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series, which comprises more than 30 national and continental tournaments around the world, and the World of Warcraft Arena global finals. Blizzard gamers and eSports fans will be able to witness some of the most skilled pro players on the planet in action as they battle it out at the Battle.net World Championship for glory, cash prizes, and the title of undisputed world champion. Continue reading Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase to host the Battle.net World Championship in Shanghai→
Blizzard announced that on 30th June and 1st July 2012, 16 of the best StarCraft II players in the United Kingdom will compete in the World Championship Series UK Nationals in London. Part of a global campaign to find the best StarCraft II player in the world, the United Kingdom Nationals will see Britain’s best fight it out to be crowned the UK champion and earn the right to represent their country at the StarCraft II World Championship Series Europe Finals. Continue reading StarCraft II World Championship Series Comes In UK This Weekend→
The lack of a LAN feature in StarCraft 2 is something that has annoyed a lot of the game’s fans. And even though Blizzard was previously hiding behind words and excuses, StarCraft 2’s production director Chris Sigaty admitted that the company removed that feature – mainly – due to piracy. Something that doesn’t shock us at all, as pretty much everyone thought so in the first place. It’s nice though to finally see Blizzard admitting the real reasons behind the lack of it. Continue reading Blizzard finally admits that the lack of LAN in StarCraft II was due to piracy→
You know what, I’ve never been a huge fan of eSports. But then I started watching some fighting games and was uterly amazed by their skills. I mean, seriously now, how can you not be impressed when you watch in action Daigo or Tokido with his infamous Akuma pose? And then, I gave a go to Starcraft 2 and boy was I hooked on it. IGN held its ProLeague Season 4 in Vegas this weekend and if you missed it, then… well there are no words to describe what you’ve missed. Continue reading Fnatic ‘aLive’ is the champion of IPL4’s StarCraft 2 Tournament→
Contrary to a lot of games, StarCraft 2 is still priced at $60 USD. We know that a lot of PC gamers want to get – for something a little less than that – and have been waiting patiently for a special sale, so here it comes guys. For a limited time, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is available for a mere $29.99. This special offer ends on Monday November 28th so waste no time and purchase it while you still can. Continue reading Black Friday Sale – Get StarCraft II with a 50% discount→
Chris “Freespace” Ciocotisan and StarCraft Legacy released a few days ago a new, fan-made cinematic called StarCraft: Final Metamorphosis. StarCraft: Final Metamorphosis depicts several scenes from the events occurring before and during the Brood War era. It was created, like First Contact, to cinematically recreate canonical lore scenes from the games, the books, and other parts of the extended universe and hopefully, for 7 minutes and 30 seconds entertain you, by taking you once more into the heart of the war-torn Koprulu Sector. This is a drooling CG cinematic – albeit the characters’ animations that are not up to the standards of Blizzard’s CG movies. Still, for a one-man work, this is simply fantastic. Enjoy! Continue reading StarCraft: Final Metamorphosis is a mind-blowing fan-made CG movie→
StarCraft fans, get ready for something really special. The team behind the highly anticipated StarCraft Universe will be attending this year’s BlizzCon and they will be offering from tomorrow and untill the end of this month, an Open Developer Preview version of the game to pretty much everyone. Continue reading StarCraft Universe – Open Developer Preview Starts Tomorrow→
Blizzard released today a new patch for their acclaimed strategy game, Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty. This small patch features several bug fixes, both to the game and the StarCraft II Editor and you can view the entire changelog after the jump. However, we should point out that Blizzard hasn’t updated yet their support page, so there isn’t any way to manually download this patch which basically means that you’ll have to rely on Battlenet and its patching capabilities. Continue reading Starcraft II – Patch 1.4.1 is now available→
Diablo and Starcraft 2 fans, get ready for something really interesting. StarHack is a hack-n-slash map conversion for StarCraft II that is pretty much based on Diablo’s gameplay mechanics and uses most of its menus. Continue reading Diablo meets Starcraft 2 in StarHack→
Blizzard has just announced a new edition for Starcraft II. StarCraft II: Starter Edition allows anyone to play the following Starcraft II content for free. Yeap, you read that right. What’s more interesting is that you can play MP matches for free with this Edition. Consider it an extended demo of Starcraft II if you will, but this is something huge and was really unexpected. And all that is required to enjoy this free version is a Battle.net account and Internet connection. Continue reading New free version of StarCraft II announced; Starcraft II: Starter Edition→
