Blizzard has given the green light for Ryan Winzen's StarCraft MMOG project. Created using the built-in StarCraft 2 toolset, Winzen's project quickly attracted the attention of gamers and journalists alike. A pre-alpha demo video uploaded to YouTube offered a glimpse into the highly-polished mod which merged Blizzard's StarCraft universe with a MMOG gameplay model. The resulting sample left many of us wanting to see the mod's completion.
Comments (0) | Permalink

The new 2:37min trailer shows off the in-game engine and cinematics and sets the stage for the continuation of the groundbreaking level of story telling that the original was remembered for.
Comments (0) | Permalink

Starcraft is arguably the most popular game of all time, and certainly one of the most enduring. Will the sequel live up to the original? Blizzard certainly thinks so, which would explain why the developer has spent over $100 million on the project thus far, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Comments (0) | Permalink

Blizzard will be adding chat functionality to StarCraft II, so now you can talk to people you barely know more than ever! Better yet, there’s going to be more Beta testing of SC2 next month before its July 27th release date!
Comments (0) | Permalink

These Razer peripherals have been officially licensed and specifically designed to work with it, offering a lot more than a matching color scheme. The five-button Spectre mouse, for example, is especially lightweight to enable fast, twitchy motions, 5,600dpi resolution for accuracy and offers a three-way switch that enables adjustable resistance and bounce on the buttons -- a first.
Comments (0) | Permalink

The custom Zerg unit will terrorize players in StarCraft II's single-player campaign.
Comments (0) | Permalink

Blizzard's Vice President of Game Design Rob Pardo wants us to think about Starcraft 2's two followups, containing the Zerg and Protoss single player campaigns, as expansion packs, so does that mean they won't contain as much gameplay as the Terran-based initial game? Plus, you'll have to wait at least whole year between "expansions." Said Pardo, "With any luck, it would be like a year for each successive one, but that's going to be a target date, that's not a promise."
Comments (0) | Permalink

According to next-gen.biz Bobby Kotick, chairman and CEO of Activision, soon to be Activision Blizzard, recently said that the company will be trying to maximize revenues out of the highly anticipated StarCraft II. To do this, Kotick asserts a new business model for the franchise, which could potentially include in-game advertising.
Comments (0) | Permalink

Rob Pardo vice president of game design at Blizzard: "I can give you the old Blizzard mantra of: 'It'll ship when it's ready,'" said Pardo, "but it's something that historically, we've learned to keep release dates really close to the vest. I think all game developers are extremely optimistic, and we used to give optimistic dates and we'd disappoint our fans when we didn't hit them. So now, I think we've just gotten more gun shy. The only thing I can give you [that's] concrete is it's not going to be this year. Some people were hoping, because of how advanced the game looks, that we'd have it out by Christmas, but that's definitely not happening."
Comments (3) | Permalink

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.
Comments (0) | Permalink