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  • The DICE 2011 summit is happening right now and one of the keynote speakers this year is Mike Morhaime, CEO, President, and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. Morhaime is joined by a roundtable of other speakers that include BioWare’s Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk, Cerny Games Mark Cerny, and Zynga’s Bruce Shelley. The title of the keynote round table is “Game Changers: A Conversation on the Nature of Interactive Entertainment from some of the...

    DICE 2011 Summit: Blizzard Investigating Diablo 3 to Consoles

    Posted on February 10, 2011 | No Comments
    The DICE 2011 summit is happening right now and one of the keynote speakers this year is Mike Morhaime, CEO, President, and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. Morhaime is joined by a roundtable of other speakers that include BioWare’s Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk, Cerny Games Mark Cerny, and Zynga’s Bruce Shelley. The title of the keynote round table is “Game Changers: A Conversation on the Nature of Interactive Entertainment from some of the...

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  • Blizzard has announced the Echoes of War soundtracks are now available on iTunes store allowing you to purchase individual tracks or the whole album. Blizzard Quote: Head on over to the iTunes store to get your copy of one or all of the 15 unique arrangements from Echoes of War: The Music of Blizzard Entertainment. This new album was recently released on CD, and has now been added to iTunes as well. It features 90...

    Echoes of War Now Available On iTunes

    Posted on December 19, 2008 | No Comments
    Blizzard has announced the Echoes of War soundtracks are now available on iTunes store allowing you to purchase individual tracks or the whole album. Blizzard Quote: Head on over to the iTunes store to get your copy of one or all of the 15 unique arrangements from Echoes of War: The Music of Blizzard Entertainment. This new album was recently released on CD, and has now been added to iTunes as well. It features 90...

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  • Fantasy Flight Games official website recently had a facelift and new bits of content and previews of the upcoming Brood War expansion for the Starcraft: The Board Game product. The Brood War Ruleset PDF is now available here. This new expansion also introduces new Leadership Cards that add interesting strategies. Among the Leadership Cards are the Hero cards and the Installation cards. The Installation cards include the protoss Warp gate, Infested Terran bases, a Zerg...

    Starcraft: The Board Game Brood War Expansion Preview

    Posted on December 16, 2008 | No Comments
    Fantasy Flight Games official website recently had a facelift and new bits of content and previews of the upcoming Brood War expansion for the Starcraft: The Board Game product. The Brood War Ruleset PDF is now available here. This new expansion also introduces new Leadership Cards that add interesting strategies. Among the Leadership Cards are the Hero cards and the Installation cards. The Installation cards include the protoss Warp gate, Infested Terran bases, a Zerg...

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  • The economic recession across the United States is seriously affecting every industry: from General Motors and other Automobile manufacturers down to book publishers and beyond. Sadly, I have to inform that my personal contacts at Pocket Star Books and Tokyopop have been laid off. I had heard a few weeks ago that Tim Beedle (Starcraft/ Warcraft manga editor) and Susan Hale were no longer at Tokyopop. I don’t know the perks, but now I have...

    Warcraft Pocket Star Book Editor Marco Palmieri Laid Off

    Posted on December 7, 2008 | No Comments
    The economic recession across the United States is seriously affecting every industry: from General Motors and other Automobile manufacturers down to book publishers and beyond. Sadly, I have to inform that my personal contacts at Pocket Star Books and Tokyopop have been laid off. I had heard a few weeks ago that Tim Beedle (Starcraft/ Warcraft manga editor) and Susan Hale were no longer at Tokyopop. I don’t know the perks, but now I have...

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  • Starcraft Comic Book artist Shawn Moll released two of the sketches found in the Blizzcon 2008 comic preview. The first image is one of the characters named Cole Hickson. The second image is the pencil sketch of the Blizzcon 2008 preview front cover. The female sniper is named Nuura Joss. DC Comics Wildstorm has not officially announced the Starcraft Comic Book. It is expected to hit stores anytime on 2009 as an ongoing series based...

    Starcraft Comic Book Sketches

    Posted on December 2, 2008 | No Comments
    Starcraft Comic Book artist Shawn Moll released two of the sketches found in the Blizzcon 2008 comic preview. The first image is one of the characters named Cole Hickson. The second image is the pencil sketch of the Blizzcon 2008 preview front cover. The female sniper is named Nuura Joss. DC Comics Wildstorm has not officially announced the Starcraft Comic Book. It is expected to hit stores anytime on 2009 as an ongoing series based...

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  • Blizzard deployed a new patch for Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War. Simply launch Starcraft and log into Battle.net to download the patch. To download manually go here. Feature Changes In-game chat is now saved in replays. Note: whispers are not saved. Hitting the Escape key while in the chat room will clear your typed text. ”/reply” (or just “/r”) will send a whisper to person who most recently whispered you. Bug Fixes Fixed localization issues...

    Starcraft: Brood War Patch 1.16

    Posted on November 26, 2008 | No Comments
    Blizzard deployed a new patch for Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War. Simply launch Starcraft and log into Battle.net to download the patch. To download manually go here. Feature Changes In-game chat is now saved in replays. Note: whispers are not saved. Hitting the Escape key while in the chat room will clear your typed text. ”/reply” (or just “/r”) will send a whisper to person who most recently whispered you. Bug Fixes Fixed localization issues...

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  • GFraizer has posted a new Battle.net Ban Policiy Update. Blizzard just banned 300,000 Battle.net accounts caught cheating in Diablo II and Starcraft games. This is a strong message to those who are still cheating or were planning to, as well as a strong message to those who plan to play Starcraft 2 and Diablo III in the new upcoming Battle.net 2.0 where cheating measures will be tighter: As part of our continued effort to ensure...

    StarCraft and Diablo II Battle.net Ban Policy Update

    Posted on November 11, 2008 | No Comments
    GFraizer has posted a new Battle.net Ban Policiy Update. Blizzard just banned 300,000 Battle.net accounts caught cheating in Diablo II and Starcraft games. This is a strong message to those who are still cheating or were planning to, as well as a strong message to those who plan to play Starcraft 2 and Diablo III in the new upcoming Battle.net 2.0 where cheating measures will be tighter: As part of our continued effort to ensure...

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  • The Confederacy is defeated… The Dominion arises… The Overmind is long gone… The Protoss are scattered… The Zerg are broken… Kerrigan’s ascension shall soon come… A new war has awakened… REVENGERS! The Dominion under Emperor Mengsk I has been under shambles in keeping a well and strong jurisdiction on each of the Terran worlds. But to make things worse an evil familiar face by the name of Alan Schezar (Allen Schezar) has arrived. First just...

    Starcraft Map Campaign - Revengers

    Posted on January 20, 2008 | No Comments
    The Confederacy is defeated… The Dominion arises… The Overmind is long gone… The Protoss are scattered… The Zerg are broken… Kerrigan’s ascension shall soon come… A new war has awakened… REVENGERS! The Dominion under Emperor Mengsk I has been under shambles in keeping a well and strong jurisdiction on each of the Terran worlds. But to make things worse an evil familiar face by the name of Alan Schezar (Allen Schezar) has arrived. First just...

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  • Starcraft History and Lore

    Posted on January 17, 2008 | No Comments

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  • Protoss  |  Zerg  |  Terran THE XEL?NAGA AND THE FIRST BORN Although only fragmented documentation remains, ancient Protoss texts speak of a highly advanced race that ruled over thousands of worlds in the galaxy, tens of millions of years ago. This enigmatic race, often called the Xel?Naga, or ?wanderers from afar?, was rumored to have seeded and cultivated thousands of various species on the cold and barren worlds within their domain. Protoss traditions hold that...

    Starcraft - Protoss History

    Posted on January 17, 2008 | No Comments
    Protoss  |  Zerg  |  Terran THE XEL?NAGA AND THE FIRST BORN Although only fragmented documentation remains, ancient Protoss texts speak of a highly advanced race that ruled over thousands of worlds in the galaxy, tens of millions of years ago. This enigmatic race, often called the Xel?Naga, or ?wanderers from afar?, was rumored to have seeded and cultivated thousands of various species on the cold and barren worlds within their domain. Protoss traditions hold that...

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