Starcraft Ii Archive

  • The parade of StarCraft II accessories begins with customized SteelSeries Zboard keyboard

    The parade of StarCraft II accessories begins with customized SteelSeries Zboard keyboard

    T-minus one month and counting till the release of StarCraft II, and we're starting to see officially branded peripherals hit the store shelves. Here's one such peripheral: the SteelSeries StarCraft II Limited Edition Zboard. As the name suggests, it's based on the company's Z Board, except, you know, StarCraft-ified.

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  • The StarCraft II TV Commercial

    The StarCraft II TV Commercial

    Yup, this TV spot did its job. I want StarCraft II even more now. [via evilavatar]

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  • Blizzard: DRM is a waste of everyone’s time

    Blizzard: DRM is a waste of everyone’s time

    "We need our development teams focused on content and cool features, not anti-piracy technology." Thank you, finally! See, Blizzard gets it. The company's co-founder, Frank Pearce, recently told the good folks at Video Gamer that he thinks the fight against DRM is misguided. Not that he supports end-users going around torrenting his games till the end of time, but that the way to "beat" piracy is to embrace gamers and treat them like complete jerks.

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  • Blizzard will add Facebook integration to Battle.net

    Blizzard will add Facebook integration to Battle.net

    Whoa there. Blizzard just announced that its Battle.net service will soon hook into Facebook, "linking the world's premier online gaming platform with the world's most popular social platform." The synergy begins with the release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, which is currently scheduled for release in July.

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  • StarCraft II official release date has been set: July 27, 2010

    StarCraft II official release date has been set: July 27, 2010

    Hold onto your knickers, everyone, for Blizzard has announced, via fancy e-mail, the release date for StarCraft II: July 27, 2010. So, slightly less than three months from now. You may freak out now.

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  • StarCraft II given Adults Only rating in South Korea, teens freak out in response

    StarCraft II given Adults Only rating in South Korea, teens freak out in response

    StarCraft II has tentatively been given an Adults Only (18+) rating in South Korea, causing Blizzard a certain amount of consternation. Blizzard has 30 days to appeal the rating. If you think that volcano caused chaos and mayhem, you obviously aren't familiar StarCraft's significance in South Korea.

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  • SteelSeries sneaks out the R.U.S.E. special edition mouse

    SteelSeries sneaks out the R.U.S.E. special edition mouse

    SteelSeries seems to have worked out their new favorite niche recently, between their World of Warcraft, and StarCraft II themed products. Add another couple of products to that list, with the R.U.S.E mouse and the QcK gaming surface (don’t call it a mouse pad). Both products are related to the new Ubisoft RTS game, and feature [...]

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  • There will be a collector’s edition of StarCraft II

    There will be a collector’s edition of StarCraft II

    Blizzard just announced, via fancy e-mail, that there will, indeed, be a collector's edition of StarCraft II, whenever it comes out. (No, Blizzard has not announced a release date yet, but says it will "soon.") Anyhow, the collector's edition will come with a 176-page art book, a USB thumb drive loaded with the original StarCraft and its expansion pack Brood War, a behind-the-scenes DVD, a CD soundtrack, a comic book, and a World of Warcraft in-game pet, plus other bonus downloadable content (aesthetic stuff, not like mega-powerful guns or anything). Total cost: $99.

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  • Razer announces drivers for the Mac

    Razer announces drivers for the Mac

    Razer announced today that they are going to be releasing Mac drivers for all of their future products. This comes on the heels of the announcement that Steam is coming to the Macintosh as well.

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  • No, Blizzard doesn’t hate your console, leaves open the possibility of developing console games

    No, Blizzard doesn’t hate your console, leaves open the possibility of developing console games

    Oh, look, I'm taking a single remark from a lengthy interview and making an entire post about it. It concerns Blizzard, the famed developer of World of Warcraft and Diablo. You may think of Blizzard as a PC developer, but that ignores games like The Lost Vikings. Anyhow, Blizzard has said in an interview with Gamasutra, which always does good stuff, that it is not averse to making a console game in the future, just that it needs to be the right game.

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  • Is it at all possible to hibernate till World of Warcraft: Cataclysm comes out?

    Is it at all possible to hibernate till World of Warcraft: Cataclysm comes out?

    It was only a few days ago that I gently chided Apple fans, telling them to “hold their horses” with respect to Snow Leopard's release date. One Blizzcon later, not only have I re-rolled another character (a Warlock), I'm now trolling message boards, comment pages, and the like looking for more and more information about Cataclysm, the upcoming expansion pack. The most important bit of information still eludes me: its release date.

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  • Hurry up and wait: StarCraft II delayed till early 2010

    Hurry up and wait: StarCraft II delayed till early 2010

    Bad news, guys: Blizzard just “delayed” StarCraft II. (Did it ever have an official release date to begin with?) I just received the devastating electronic mail.

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  • SteelSeries outs StarCraft II mousepads

    SteelSeries outs StarCraft II mousepads

    Can't wait for StarCraft II? Who can? SteelSeries is ready to cash in on the anticipation with $14.99 gaming mousepads sometime this month. Two different themes will be available: the Terran Marine pad or the Kerrigan vs. Zeratul pad. Both of course are optimized for gaming with a special surface that improves mouse tracking. Want one? They will be sold at GameStop and Amazon sometime soon. High-res shots of both are after the jump.

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  • 65,000 signatures on petition to get LAN back in StarCraft II (but will Blizzard listen?)

    65,000 signatures on petition to get LAN back in StarCraft II (but will Blizzard listen?)

    By now I'm sure you know that Blizzard doesn't plan to support LAN in StarCraft II. There's a petition going around that politely asks Blizzard to reconsider. Said petition has some 65,000 signatures on it. You should sign it, too.

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  • It’s the StarCraft II Tech Trees!

    It’s the StarCraft II Tech Trees!

    Courtesy of Giant Bomb... the first pictures of the StarCraft II Tech Tree.

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