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Monday, Oct 26
Hey Blizzard, What's It Like To Make Non-WarCraft Games?
Browder doesn't believe there was any sort of conscious decision to focus on a particular — it was just a matter of the different teams at Blizzard (Diablo III, for example) getting to a point last year where they could show what they had been working on. Browder goes on to say he and Blizzard w...
Tuesday, Oct 13
World of Warcraft Players, You're Gonna Need A Battle.net Account
You just better have it done by November 11, as Blizzard will be requiring it for WoW players, not to mention future games, like StarCraft II and Diablo III. Better yet, it's easy, free and will net World of Warcraft players a virtual penguin to pal around with in-game. There's even a FAQ!!
Tuesday, Aug 25
StarCraft: Ghost Lives On In StarCraft II
It's good to know that all of that StarCraft: Ghost development didn't go to waste. If you're interested in of the lore behind Ghost and its lovely protagonist Nova, be sure to check out the StaCraft: Ghost Nova novel, recently featured in our 2009 Summer Reading List.
Keeping Things Fresh In The StarCraft II Expansions
With StarCraft II's single player experience spread across three titles, how is Blizzard going to keep things fresh? Sam "Samwise" Didier answers the question with hatchet wounds while dodging the fierce enemy UI. All joking aside, Sam explains that certain ideas have been held back fo...
Monday, Aug 24
StarCraft II Can Be Played Offline
Some of our readers were a bit put off by the suggestion that the single player portion of StarCraft II would require logging into Battle.net, as evidenced by some of the comments in the post following the Battle.net panel at BlizzCon this weekend. The next day we followed up on the issue with B...
Tricia Helfer Is StarCraft II's Kerrigan
Original voice actress Glynnis Talken Campbell is still out as the voice of StarCraft II's Kerrigan, but Blizzard found a worth replacement in the form of Cylon Number Six, Tricia Helfer. BlizzCon 09: Kerrigan Gets Cylon'd [IGN UK]
Sunday, Aug 23
Blizzard: Lack Of StarCraft Lan Is "No Big Deal"
sat down with Blizzard's executive vice president of game design Rob Pardo this weekend to talk Battle.net, but we couldn't resist touching on the subject of the lack of LAN in StarCraft II. So it really doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but as Pardo said, we won't really know until the game...
Saturday, Aug 22
BlizzCon 2009: The Show So Far
We took a closer look at the Monk, the Street Fighter character of Diablo III, with low survivability but quick and devastating attacks leaving enemies reeling from the feeling. We also looks at the integration planned for Battle.Net and StarCraft 2 in words and pictures, discovering tha...
Kotaku Originals: Slim Goodbody
Sony Sony: PSP Minis Not An iPhone App Store, No PSPgo UMD Transfer Update Europe, You Are Officially Getting Pre-Paid PSN Cards Sony Completely Rebrands The PlayStation 3 Sony Talk PlayStation Lifetime Sales, PSN Revenue Did You Get Into The MAG Beta?
Monday, Aug 17
Opinion: First StarCraft II Single Player Campaign Hands-On (With Spoilers)
That mechanic gives StarCraft II's single-player campaign a bit of an adventure game feel, even if most of what the game offers during these moments is atmosphere. These moments replace the talking head intermissions from the original StarCraft.
First StarCraft II Single Player Campaign Hands-On (Now Spoiler-Free!)
In the Hyperion's armory, you'll have access to plenty of units, technology and buildings that didn't make the multiplayer cut. This makes StarCraft II's single-player campaign much more than a series of mission-based levels using multiplayer style rules.
Wednesday, Jul 1
Learn StarCraft From A "Full Blooded Korean"
There's lots to learn about in StarCraft. The entire nation of South Korea seems fixated on the game — with tournaments and TV programs. You could say it's the country's national (digital) pastime! So if you are going to really learn StarCraft, then ByunTae wants you to learn it from an "auth...
Monday, Jun 29
Three Things We Weren't Allowed To Photograph At Blizzard HQ
The campus is filled with Blizzard concept art, from a Protoss starship in the library to earlier maps of Azeroth adorning the walls. Interestingly, some of the in-development artwork was hung in hallways, but carefully covered with black blinds that could be pulled down to obscure what...
Opinion: StarCraft II Hands-On: Round Three
While much of the early StarCraft II game feels familiar, Blizzard has added another layer of strategy to something as simple as resource gathering. Each faction, Terran, Zerg and Protoss, have ways of boosting their resourcing means.
Tuesday, Mar 31
Opinion: Blizzard's April Fool's Day Spectacular
They could have simply stopped there, but no. On the StarCraft 2 webpage they introduce Terra-Tron, the most powerful Terran unit ever created. With a role listed as "Omega Supreme Defense", Terra-Tron is an entire Terran base that transforms into a giant robot. It is a thing of beauty to beh...
Sunday, Sep 21
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Calls Out Starcraft
And here's another one from Suki (Kelly Hu), posted as a response to a Star Trek vid. Actually, she's got others up in which she hates horror (Left 4 Dead) and expansion packs (you name it). She also likes "impressive creatures" which is probably carrying water for Spore.
Sunday, Sep 14
Diablo III's Release Will Precede StarCraft 2's
This is getting tons of notice over on Battleforums, which quotes the ubiquitous Anonymous Source (he does get around), this one "from inside Blizzard," as saying that StarCraft 2's development will be "largely postponed" until Diablo III is ready to go.
Monday, Aug 25
Will Diablo III Be Playable At BlizzCon?
While waiting for my turn to click-click through an all too brief taste of StarCraft II, I asked Blizzard reps the inevitable "Since Diablo III isn't here, I assume will it be playable at BlizzCon?" After all, when the sequel to StarCraft was announced, it was publicly playable just four m...
Monday, Jun 23
StarCraft II Dated?
No, Blizzard hasn't yet applied an official date to Starcraft II, but that hasn't stopped a trio of retailers from pegging its release. That'd be December 3. Of this year. According to Best Buy, Circuit City, and Gamestop, via Joystiq, the long awaited RTS sequel will make it in time for Chris...
Thursday, May 22
These Are Supposed To Be Starcraft 2's System Specs
These were obtained by Spanish mag Micromania, after a visit to Blizzard's offices. As such, I'm just going to class them as "official estimates", confirm my PC can run the recommended specs, then get on with my "waiting for Starcraft 2" candlelight vigil.
Friday, Apr 25
StarCraft Board Game Demo
StarCraft the PC game is nuts. StarCraft: The Board Game is nuttier! Dr. Gregory Wilson, fantasy fiction professor at St. John's University (bwah?), points out the finer points of table top gaming while touring the New York Comic Con. NYC Comic Con geek-gasm [Boing Boing TV]
Monday, Mar 10
StarCraft II Official Zerg Fact Sheet [Rumor]
Classic StarCraft unit, or new to StarCraft II?: Classic from StarCraft: Brood War Classic StarCraft unit, or new to StarCraft II?: New Classic StarCraft unit, or new to StarCraft II?: New Classic StarCraft unit, or new to StarCraft II?: New
Sunday, Mar 9
First Look at StarCraft II Zerg [Clip]
This new StarCraft II trailer that just debuted in Korea gives a first look at the Zerg alien race. Great looking trailer! Just checked the news, and no, South Korea hasn't imploded.
Sunday, Sep 30
A Personal View of Nintendo In Korea [Korea]
Cubed³'s Adam Riley has a great personal piece up on gaming in Korea - specifically, how is Nintendo doing? What's selling well - and why? From the sounds of it, the DS Lite is a relatively hot item (at least among the younger set). It's an interesting piece and well worth a read through: At las...
Monday, Aug 27
Leipzig Uber Round-Up [Gc07]
Games For Windows Live Maybe, PhysX Not So Much Gabe Newell Smack Talks the PC, PS3, Xbox 360 (And your Mother) GC Offers EA Tats Strippers Invade GC Starcraft II, the Multiplayer Experience The Booth Babes of GC StarCraft II, Lich King Playable At Leipzig Games Con
Monday, Aug 20
StarCraft II, Lich King Playable At Leipzig Games Con [It's Almost Tomorrow]
If you want to get your hands on StarCraft II before 99% of the Korean population, book your plane or train ticket to Leipzig pronto, as Blizzard has enough demo kiosks to quash a Zergling rush at Games Convention. The developer also has an equally impressive number of demo kiosks for World o...
Another Warcraft RTS "On The Table" [Blizzard Says]
The announcement of Starcraft 2 got one monkey off Blizzard's back. The other three (Diablo 3, Warcraft 4 and, for me, Lost Vikings 3D), they're working on, one at a time. First up is another Warcraft RTS, which Blizzard's Rob Pardo says is definitely "on the table". The way that we develop thi...
Monday, Aug 6
StarCraft: The Board Game Eyes-On
At this weekend's BlizzCon, tabletop game specialist Fantasy Flight Games showed the first prototypes for its upcoming StarCraft: The Board Game set. At $79.95, the six-player board game may seem a tad on the pricey side, but when you consider the set includes 180 plastic play figures, ba...
Thursday, Jun 14
On Mac Gaming
People applauded. Those, like myself, who covered the Macintosh gaming world for a living saw a bright future ahead. EA wasn't there, but Activision was, and Aspyr was bringing Madden to the Mac anyway. MacSoft was bringing Unreal Tournament over, and StarCraft was still on the Mac, and sti...
Monday, Jun 4
BlizzConners Getting StarCraft II Beta Key? [Korean Invasion Imminent]
With BlizzCon tickets $100 a pop, you might have a hard time justifying attending a real-life raid on the Anaheim Convention Center. Today, Blizzard revealed one little fact that might make fence-sitting conventioneers jump at the chance to attend. Everyone who attends BlizzCon this ye...
Saturday, May 5
StarCraft MMO Coming, Say Sources
According to CVG, Blizzard will reveal a World of StarCraft-style massively multiplayer online title in Korea next month at the Blizzard World Invitational. While many fans of the original StarCraft were probably expecting a proper real-time strategy game to be unveiled, if CVG's "we...
Friday, Apr 27
Blizzard Working on "Next-Gen MMO"
Remember, yesterday was also when Blizzard told us that they intend to announce a new product at th Worldwide Invitational in Korea on May 19. They also said they do plan to revisit the StarCraft universe at some point in the future. Job Postings [Blizzard, thanks Ryne]
Thursday, Apr 12
Rumor: Starcraft 2 on Its Way [StarCraft]
An article from a Korean site called Fighter Forum is claiming that a StarCraft 2 release might be around the corner at the end of 2007. The article is also full of meaty gossip morsels that include a new race being added to the game, and a super-sized whopper of a rumor that claims Blizzard wil...
Thursday, Jul 20
StarCraft Gets Fan-Flick [StarCraft]
A "worldwide team" of 3D artists plan to bring a short fan-made CGI StarCraft movie to life, called "StarCraft Chronicles." While the flick has nothing to do with the game's maker Blizzard Entertainment, it is being put together by highly skilled StarCraft lovers. Game site Blizzplanet s...
Monday, Jul 18
Diablo, StarCraft DS or PSP Bound? [Ds]
In a recent newsletter, the company asked what readers thought about the idea of bringing Diablo II to the DS or PSP if it supported multiplayer wireless gaming. It also asked whether readers would buy a DS version of StarCraft. Blizzard Games DS Bound? [N64 Europe]
