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

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

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    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

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    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

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    "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

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    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

    Posted on May 3, 2010 | No Comments
    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

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    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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  • There will be a collector’s edition of StarCraft II

    There will be a collector’s edition of StarCraft II

    Posted on April 8, 2010 | No Comments
    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

    Posted on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
    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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  • Yeah, Cataclysm will come out this year

    Yeah, Cataclysm will come out this year

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    It's earnings call season, and while no news is more shocking than the fact that WWE will drop the Survivor Series, there's something for World of Warcraft fans. And, really, who isn't a fan of World of Warcraft. Anyhow, yeah, Cataclysm will come out this year. We've (and by "we" I mean the WoW community) pretty much assumed as much since the expansion was first announced, but now the money men have made it official.

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  • SteelSeries announces StarCraft 2 keyset, March of the Scourge mouse pad

    SteelSeries announces StarCraft 2 keyset, March of the Scourge mouse pad

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    SteelSeries continues to work that IP license with Blizzard by announcing two new products aimed directly at gamers: a Zboard StarCraft 2 keyset, and a World of Warcraft: March of the Scourge mouse pad.

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  • Here’s a LEGO Starcraft Terran Battlecruiser

    Here’s a LEGO Starcraft Terran Battlecruiser

    Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Sure, this isn’t the largest or most impressive LEGO ship out there, but it still cooler than anything you could build. Check out Jerac’s Flickr set to see the construction and other just-as-nice LEGO creations. [Thanks for the tip, Scott!]

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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

    Posted on December 21, 2009 | No Comments
    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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  • Starcaft 2 Video: Lost Temple battle

    Starcaft 2 Video: Lost Temple battle

    Posted on October 19, 2009 | No Comments
    This video brings back terrible memories of me getting massacred. I used to play quick Starcraft pickup games during boring MCSE lectures back in school. There was this guy in my class that happened to be a bigger nerd than I and the only way he knew how to win was with massive Dragooon armies. [...]

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  • Advice: If your Internet connection drops out while playing an online game, don’t stab a random person

    Advice: If your Internet connection drops out while playing an online game, don’t stab a random person

    Posted on October 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, dear. We've all been there: you're playing your favorite game online, and then WHAM-O~! you lose your Internet connection. The usual course of action is to mutter “Gosh darn it” to your self, then go about your business. An unusual course of action is to grab a knife, then stab a random person walking in the street. Apparently that has happened, yes.

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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?

    Posted on August 23, 2009 | No Comments
    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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