Finally, a film on the growing world of eSports will be out soon. Good Game – A Film About Evil Geniuses will be showing just what pro-gaming is all about. The film aims to introduce the growing industry to more people. It will feature the StarCraft 2 pro-gamers of EG, such as IdrA, Huk and PuMa.
So eSports is catching on, huh?...Well, people tuned in to a bunch of people competing against each other playing games such as Black Ops, Halo – Reach and Starcraft 2. The Major League Gaming has done quite a bit of good promotions it seems. The MLG hosts six marquee Pro Circuit eSport tournaments each year. These tournaments are supported by all those who are watching via dedicated real time streams. This season has just ended and has proven to be the best yet.
If you're a bit of a Starcraft fan then be sure to mark your calendars for September 29th from 6pm to 9pm PDT, because that's when NVIDIA will kick off their live streams of the Geforce Starcraft II Professional Championship matches. Husky and Day[9] from The Game Station on Youtube will be providing commentary of the matches, all the way up until the final three matches.
StarCraft II will not be given a console release in the foreseeable future, Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed.
Speaking to Digital Spy, senior designer Jonny Ebbert said that the sci-fi strategy would not be compatible with PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 control schemes.
With Activision-Blizzard's blessing, work on the mod formerly known as World of Starcraft continues, and today brings us a new gameplay trailer of Starcraft Universe in action.
Created by Ryan Winzen and a team of modders using the Starcraft II map editor, Starcraft Universe transforms Blizzard's RTS into an MMORPG.
Your StarCraft II community is about to get a whole lot bigger. Blizzard Entertainment has announced a region linking initiative that will connect StarCraft II players around the world like never before.
Posting on the official StarCraft II blog, Blizzard revealed that with the start of Season 3, it will link the North American and Latin American Battle.net regions, the European and Russian, and the Korean and Taiwanese.
StarCraft Universe, the "World of Starcraft" MMO project that touched off a tense week for the StarCraft II modding community back in January, has released the first trailer of gameplay from its alpha version. You get a wide look at a lot of features of the game in that four-minute trailer, above.
The current Starcraft 2 season, Season 2, will come to a close on Tuesday morning at 8AM EST to prepare for the launch of Season 3 on the morning of Tuesday the 19th of July.
The third season will bring four new maps to the one-on-one map pool with the 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4 getting two new maps each. The one-on-one map pool refresh contains one long-game focused map, one quick-rush focused map, and two neutral-length maps.
The world of professional gaming is about to heat up. Later this month, IGN is launching the first season of its new eSports Pro League with an invitational tournament featuring combatants from top North American StarCraft II clans. A total of 16 players from nine different clans have been selected.Contestants will duke it out over the course of eight brutal days and compete for $5,000 in prizes and four automatic qualifier spots for the second IPL season.
...the NRG high performance PC gaming brand is holding Australia's first major Starcraft II competition, at the Intime Cybercafe, in Haymarket, Sydney.
The competition will be for individuals and separately, for teams. It will take the form of two elimination days and a main event for the finalists.
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