StarCraft

By Luke Plunkett Come on, admit it. When you first heard Blizzard were breaking Starcraft II's singleplayer campaign into three games, you cried "BASTARDS!". There was no way the decision to do so was anything but a cold, cynical grab for cash at the expense of loyal, but misguided Blizzard fans, right? Wel...

By Michael McWhertor As part of our continued effort to ensure a fair and fun online experience for all Battle.net players, we have expanded our efforts to remove cheaters from StarCraft and Diablo II. We have identified and closed over 350,000 StarCraft and Diablo II accounts which were found to be using third...

By Stuart Houghton Yo momma plays Protoss at Starcraft" would make a devastating, if rather surreal riposte when playing the dozens. If Blizzard's Chris Sigaty gets his way, though, it could just be a perfectly acceptable thing to say because, you know, she might.

By Luke Plunkett 6. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest 7. Crysis Warhead 8. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe 9. World Of Warcraft 11. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade 12. Civilization IV: Colonization 13. Warcraft III Battle Chest 14. Civilization IV / Firaxis 16. Diablo Battle Chest 17. StarCraft Battle Chest

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By Mike Fahey I'd have to say that the very best cosplay I've seen at BlizzCon 2008 I've sadly seen without a camera. Like the two girls dressed up as a demon and a Draenei, kissing each other as I rushed to an interview with the lead designer on StarCraft II. Priorities won out in the end, but I will forever car...

By Mike Fahey Don't think of it as a split. That's main point StarCraft II lead producer Chris Sigaty was trying to get across during our brief interview following the StarCraft II panel at BlizzCon where it was announced that the single player campaign would be delivered as three separate products - fi...

By Owen Good 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.

By Owen Good 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.

By Michael McWhertor Blizzard Is Tired Of You Asking When StarCraft II Will Be Done Only The Barbarian Will Return In Diablo III Screens Sexy New WipEout HD Screens New Red Faction Guerrilla Screens New RACE Pro Screens New Mortal Kombat vs DC Screens Will Diablo III Be Playable At BlizzCon?

By Michael McWhertor 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...

By Michael McWhertor Blizzard's set up at Games Convention this year was identical to the last — one half dedicated to World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the other to StarCraft II. What had changed, rather dramatically, was how StarCraft II played, with massively rebalanced Terran and Protoss forces,...

By Michael McWhertor StarCraft II's story driven single player mode — of which we've seen only brief portions on the Terran side — will use a tried and true point and click adventure style interface. Blizzard showed this publicly at BlizzCon last year, giving us a look at a Battlecruiser set explorable by Terra...

By Brian Crecente The good news is that Blizzard plans to unveil the opening cinematic movie for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King at the big show. They also will be hosting a Q&A session following the airing on Thursday. Blizzard also plans to have more hands on time with StarCraft II and Lich King a...

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By Brian Ashcraft SHANGHAI, China, Aug 12, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and NetEase.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTES) today announced an agreement to license Blizzard Entertainment(R)'s StarCraft(R) II, Warcraft(R) III: Reign of Chaos(TM), Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne(TM), and Bat...

By Leigh Alexander Both Activision and Blizzard Entertainment's businesses have maintained their momentum and Activision Blizzard is well positioned to exceed the financial goals set for the combined company at the time of the deal announcement. About Activision Blizzard

Because of the top-secret-but-everyone-knows-about-it announcement about Diablo III, the panels weren’t announced until after the ceremony had concluded and suddenly the convention floor was flooded with plans detailing the numerous talks, several of which focus on, yes you gue...

By Owen Good Speaking about the game's development, he explained that they were "about a third of the way through" the campaign, and were concentrating on story structure and cinematics at this point - commenting that by the end of the year, Blizzard should have something very impressive to show off.

By Mike Fahey Does this mean no Diablo III? Well, not exactly. It could very well mean that the splash page image has nothing to do with the new game being announced, lining up instead with the release date for Wrath of the Lich King or StarCraft 2. The more we see the less we seem to know. Fun, eh?

By Michael McWhertor 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...

By Luke Plunkett 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.

By Brian Ashcraft Blizzard's big time RTS StarCraft II is coming alone nicely. Here, Lead Producer Chris Sigaty and 1Up Editor-in-Chief James Mielke. Check out the game's latest build footage and producer Sigaty's flowing locks. They are magnificent. New Interview [VideoGamesBlogger]

By Brian Ashcraft 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]

By Mike Fahey In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Blizzard Entertainment's bestselling StarCraft real-time strategy game, this August TOKYOPOP will publish the first volume of the new manga series, StarCraft: Frontline, a collection of four stories set in the dark and gritty StarCraft uni...

By Brian Ashcraft 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

By Brian Ashcraft 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.

By Luke Plunkett 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...

By Michael McWhertor 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...

By Brian Ashcraft 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...

By Michael McWhertor 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...

By Mike Fahey I was about to post some very slow StarCraft videos at a Korean site sent to us by a couple of enterprising Kotakuites, but then Blizzplanet pointed us to this YouTube video that is just slightly less slow. The Korean site linked above has gameplay footage, but once again it is horribly, terr...

By Michael McWhertor 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...

By Brian Crecente 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]

By Brian Ashcraft 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...

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By lsmith World Cyber Games released the list today of games that will be played for the WCG series in 2006. The eight games that are going to make some pro gamers even richer are: StarCraft: Brood War, Warcraft: The Frozen Throne, Half-Life: Counter-Strike 1.6, Warhammer 40,000: Winter Assault, FI...

By Brian Crecente 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]