The least I can do today is point you in the direction of this bona fide work of art. It’s the Kerrigan Zerg Queen of Blades from good ol’ StarCraft II. → Read More
Let this be a warning to any of you who plan to cheat while playing StarCraft II: don’t! Blizzard has just sent a communiqué that says, in no uncertain terms, that it has zero problem with breaking out the ban hammer. → Read More
Starcraft II has already set the record as the fastest-selling real-time strategy game of all time, at least that’s what Blizzard claims. Analysts expect 7 million copies sold this year. Considering that this is just the first part of the game that’s quite a win and Blizzard is of course happy about it. Why sell something only once when you can split it up to parts and sell it three times? This way you can keep up the Starcraft hype for another decade. → Read More
As if this is a shock to anyone, but StarCraft II is now the best selling PC game of the year. Within 24 hours Blizzard sold 1 million copies, and within 48 hours that total climbed to 1.5 million copies. The game is quite popular, yes. → Read More
It seems some users are blaming StarCraft II for the fact that their pants no longer fit as well as they used to. No, wait, that’s not it. They’re blaming StarCraft II for killing their video cards. Mm. → Read More
This is just a heads-up for any ATI folks out there looking to add a little anti-aliasing to your StarCraft II-ing. ATI has released an updated driver, version 10.7a, that includes a hotfix that enables forced AA for the game. You have to activate AA inside the Catalyst Control Thingamajig outside of the game. End transmission. → Read More
How long did Blizzard spend developing StarCraft II? Since 2003, give or take some time here and there when the company needed all hands on deck for World of Warcraft. So you’d think that would be enough time to figure out how to implement anti-aliasing into the graphics engine, right? You see where I’m going with this. → Read More
Nefarious pirates looking to, um, pirate StarCraft II are running into a bit of a problem: one of the more popular torrents that purports to be the game is actually nothing more than a conduit for a nasty bit of malware. I know $60 for a PC game may seem a little expensive to many of you, but would you rather pay the money (and earn Light Side points) or try to pirate it (and earn Dark Side points) and have to deal with cleaning out your system? → Read More
As every life form in the Milky Way knows, StarCraft II came out yesterday. I’ve heard stories—anecdotes, if you will—about people pulling out of World of Warcraft raids in order to play the game. → Read More
So I just went on the Battle.net site to buy myself a copy of Blizzard’s latest game, Starcraft II. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that it’s going to take 68 years before I’ll be able to buy and activate the incredibly popular new title. Apparently “It’s about time” meant it’s about how much time it’ll take before you can activate your new game. Update: Ok, the queue was grossly miscalculating. I was able to get the game after about 30 minutes. A reasonable amount of time, and I didn’t have to leave the house. → Read More
It’s 60€ in Europe. Costs as much as a console title only this is the digital version. I guess I’ll just wait until the price drops to a reasonable amount of money. → Read More
It’s like I’ve been shot in the heart. → Read More
Tomorrow is StarCraft II day and I’m probably not the only one that needs a little refresher on the storyline. IGN has us covered. → Read More
You may have read that Blizzard spent some $100 million to develop StarCraft II. Well, that information is incorrect. Blizzard actually hasn’t disclosed how much it has spent to develop the game; that $100 million actually refers to World of Warcraft, which has been in continued developed for like 60 years at this point. → Read More
One hundred million dollars. That’s quite a lot of money. If you factor in advertising, you’re looking at what is perhaps the most expensive game ever made. It’s not a chump bet, though: the insane popularity of StarCraft means that they can expect a huge return on their investment, to be paid back over what will certainly be a long, long shelf life for this game. Activision may be expecting as much as a billion dollars in revenue to come out of this particular item. I believe it. [via 1up] → Read More
Starcraft II isn’t officially available until July 27, but you can avoid the rush and download it right now — for free! RIGHT NOW! → Read More
If Blizzard wanted to spark a discussion, well, job done. The company’s plan to bring Real ID to its message boards has done nothing if not freak people out. Do keep freaking out. → Read More
Let’s get one thing straight: Blizzard is totally in the right here. You’ll recall that they announced yesterday that the era of anonymous commenting on their message boards will come to an end with the release of StarCraft II. Note that all of your current posts on their message board will forever remain under your character’s name. (Don’t worry, Fernando Zorres, your secret is safe with me.) It’s only when the new system kicks into gear—the World of Warcraft forum won’t change over to the new system until Cataclysm comes out—that you’ll have to “worry.” But really, what are you worried about? → Read More
Kudos to Blizzard for putting an end to Anonymous Cowards everywhere. Well, at least on their own official forums. Starting with the release of StarCraft II in a few weeks, Blizzard WILL DEMAND~! you use your real name to participate in the forums. Oh sure, you’ll also be able to have your in-game character’s name displayed alongside your real name, but don’t let that fool you: accountability has finally reached the world of message boards. → Read More
T-minus one month and counting till the release of StarCraft II, and we’re starting to see officially branded peripherals hit the store shelves. Here’s one such peripheral: the SteelSeries StarCraft II Limited Edition Zboard. As the name suggests, it’s based on the company’s Z Board, except, you know, StarCraft-ified. → Read More
