Archive for the tag "starcraft II"
Monday, August 4th, 2008 Posted in Action, Activision Blizzard, Financials, PC, RPG, Trade | No Comments »
Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime has assured that while Diablo III doesn't have a release date as yet, the hugely anticipated action RPG is now a heavy focus for the development ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, Activision Blizzard, MMO, PC, RPG, Strategy | 4 Comments »
It was the event that kept on giving. Not content with making what has to go down as the most exciting live reveal in videogames history in Diablo III, the ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Activision Blizzard, MMO, PC, RPG, Strategy | 3 Comments »
There's no point breaking this into parts. Here's everything we can find from yesterday's epic Blizzard III reveal at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris, and all the stuff that ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, America, PC, Retail, Strategy | 9 Comments »
According to this Joystiq story, Best Buy, Circuit City, and Gamestop are all listing StarCragft II as a December 3 launch.
There's no confirmation on this from Blizzard at the moment, ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
Blizzard's released a single new screen and piece of artwork for StarCraft II. That's it. Thanks, Shacknews.
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
Nice movie after the break of StarCraft II's Terran army going to war. It's filmed off a monitor, but still. The RTS is going to be shown at the end ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
On Eurogamer.pt. Going to start seeing playtests of this from the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational next month, so let's look forward to that.
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
Blizzard's offered a profoundly dull and completely predictable "if it's not from us it isn't true" quote to last night's supposed StarCraft II system spec release.
"Blizzard has not released final, ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
A reader of this Starcraft fansite's posted what looks to be a set of system specs for Starcraft II. Apparently they came from a Spanish mag who recently visited Blizzard. ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
New interview after the break from 1UP of a chat with StarCraft II producer Chris Sigaty. Not much in there, but there's a quick look at a new build, a ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
On Worthplaying. This is the set that gave us this image earlier in the week. Looks bloody. Still no word on date.
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
It's on ShackNews and shows the new Zerg Baneling unit, apparently. According to the site, "The Baneling (bottom right in image) is an evolved Zergling, which rolls along the ground ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
On Gamershell. Still looks great. Remember that people are going to be able to play the RTS at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in June. Hopefully we'll get a release date ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Korea, PC, Strategy | 3 Comments »
StarCraft was ten years old yesterday, and to celebrate Blizzard's posted a retrospective of the perennial RTS. You need to read this. It's as close to "important" as it gets ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
Here. Every time we see more stuff on this we get excited, and yet we're 90 percent sure we'll never have time to play it. This is a huge shame, ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
Chris Sigaty, lead producer on StarCraft II, has gone to lengths to stress that the 3D engine in the strategy sequel will not get in the way of StarCraft's traditional, ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
You may as well watch it. It's Friday. The game looks very cool, anyway. Have you got anything better to do? Read this while you're at it. Looks as though ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
A development source has told videogaming247 that StarCraft II is unlikely to see light of day this year.
"I'd say it's going to be Q1 2009," said the man. "The marketing's ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | 1 Comment »
Nine minutes. Count them. Then watch them. It's direct feed and there's VO.
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
According to this, StarCraft II may be further off than we expected, with a closed beta looking likely for the end of the year.
"Right now the game is in its ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
Below. Taken from here. The first movie from yesterday was shakycam, so you get a far better idea of what's going on in the following movies. All looks very fighty.
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Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | 2 Comments »
The quality's not so hot, but you can see what's going on. This trailer was filmed in Korea, seemingly, and shows off some of the new Zerg units in StarCraft ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
Here. Quite a bit of stuff to keep you ticking over and us in images to use on StarCraft II stories. Some nice art there as well as four new ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
Blizzard has issued a statement saying StarCraft II isn't going to have in-game ads in it after Activision CEO Bobby Kotick said the game could be a potential test-bed for ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
According to this, Blizzard creative boss Chris Metzen has said StarCraft II "feels like the best work we've ever done".
He added: "It's been very, very rewarding to see this thing ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
A long video here of someone playing as the Protoss in StarCraft II at GDC. We're not going to lie to you: this video is the reason we never play ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, Europe, Korea, PC, Strategy | No Comments »
The Korean Times reckons StarCraft II's going live "this year", according to this. The Blizzard RTS is confirmed as playable at the company's Worldwide Invitational, to be held this year ...
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