Attention all gamers: Just in case the past year hasn't quite satisfied your Blizzard fixation, what with the releases of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, you'll get a few more chances before 2011 is out. Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its sixth BlizzCon gaming convention will be held this year on Friday, October 21, and Saturday, October 22, at the Anaheim Convention Center, in Anaheim, California.
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GOM TV have set up a house that’s designed to help foreign players train up and eventually qualify for their Professional Starcraft League. Click through for Artosis’ guided tour of the Seoul residence and an interview with “John The Translator.” He seems like a nice guy. Artosis actually gets into the house 3.25 into the video. You might want to skip the first bit...
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After the release of StarCraft II's version 1.1 patch, Blizzard has gone straight to work on the next major version update. Version 1.2 is aimed at competitive players but it'll also bring in the usual improvements. Major "e-Sport" features will be introduced that'll let players show how they did in past seasons and improve chat. Along with bug fixes, balance changes, and tweaks, the SCII editor will get some significant improvements.
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Starcraft II sold 721,000 units in the United States in July - compared to 692,000 units for the second placed game (NCAA Football 11). Blizzard claims that it is already the best selling PC game of the year.
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StarCraft II lead designer Dustin Browder tells 1UP that while the Terran single-player campaign — over two-dozen missions strong instead of then StarCraft-standard ten — is playable the others "are definitely not in a playable state."
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Jim Raynor stars as Terran protagonist. Also "Blizzard has implemented character dialogue trees into the mix. So, instead of just watching in-game cut-scenes (WC3) or non-interactive dialogue panels (SC), you can click on characters surrounding Raynor on the bridge to engage them in conversation." "The new unlock system in StarCraft II allows players to pick and choose which units and research options they have for successive missions, instead of being fed upgrades over the course of a linear story." **LINK TO IMPRESSIONS HERE:** http://pc.ign.com/articles/810/810339p1.html
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The cover story of the latest PC Gamer is all about Starcraft II. The feature highlights the development process and decision-making and shows an ample amount of Protoss units, including old-hats such as the Reavers, Templars and Archons.
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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.
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Well, it's been a long wait, but StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (SC2) is finally here! Its release has been surrounded with one controversy after another as Blizzard simultaneously excited and disappointed its fans with the revealed features over the StarCraft II beta.
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Normally, the release of a PC game – even a highly anticipated one – wouldn’t be a particularly big deal for investors. But when that game is “Starcraft II,” all the usual rules are thrown out the window. Analysts expect the game, which ships to retail on Tuesday, to sell up to 4.5 million copies by the end of August. To put that in perspective, that’s nearly twice as many copies as the year’s best selling console game to date.
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