Blizzard have announced that over three million fans ‘zerged’ to buy Starcraft II within a month of its release, making it one of the fastest selling Real Time Strategy games of all time and the best selling PC games in 2010. This large number of sales is helped by its simultaneous worldwide release in North America, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New [...]
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Cataclysm Gets a Collector’s Edition, Still Not Dated
Cataclysm, the latest expansion for World of Warcraft, may have the tentative release date of sometime this year but at least the details of its collector’s edition have been revealed. Although no price has been given as of yet, the pack looks set to include the usual CE suspects: A 176 page Cataclysm art book, [...]
Blizzard Blesses Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty with July 27, 2010 Release Date
Blizzard has today announced their planned release date for the first third of Starcraft II. The release is currently slated as July 27 this year. Gamers will be able to either purchase copies in-store that day or directly from Blizzard at a later, unspecified date. The date is good for “stores throughout the United States, [...]
Starcraft II gets preliminary ‘adults only’ rating in Korea
Korea’s Games Ratings board has rated the highly anticipated PC strategy game StarCraft II adults only, The Korea Times reported today. This is large blow for Blizzard, Starcarft is so big in South Korea that Blizzard chose to announce the sequel in May of 2007. That rating issued by Korea’s Games Rating Board could mean [...]
Starcraft II limited edition announced, no release date
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Collector’s Edition will come complete with art book, soundtrack CD, and in-game World of Warcraft pet, Blizzard announced today. Par for the course for special editions nowadays, though the in-game pet, whilst very ‘Blizzard’ doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for people who are RTS addicts, or those that [...]
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty (Beta) Impressions [PC]
Starcraft was a very successful game. Set in the 26th century, the game revolves around three species fighting for dominance in a distant part of the Milky Way galaxy. Released in 1998 for the PC (1999 for Mac) Blizzard’s game set all kinds of sales records and is widely known in jest as “the national sport [...]
Starcraft II beta launches today.
Today the ponderous machine that is Blizzard began the ”StarCraft II” closed beta today, launching out invites to those who had requested keys many months ago. The beta is extremely limited at this time. Reports trickle in as people ignore their non-disclosure-agreements (though some report there aren’t any) so some details have come in.
Future Guitar Hero games to go console free?
Activision Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick yesterday explained the possibility of non-console versions of the Guitar Hero franchise during a 45-minute presentation at the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference in San Francisco. Kotich said that without being tether to a specific console version, Activison would have “some leverage with first parties when it comes to downloadable content [...]
Blizzcon 09: Third World of Warcraft Expansion Announced
In news that is sure to shake the foundations of the net, the latest World of Warcraft expansion pack has been announced at this year’s Blizzcon. World of Warcaft: Cataclysm, the third expansion for the online RPG, is set to include an increased level cap, two new playable races and a selection of revised and [...]
Andy Chambers talks Starcraft II
Andy Chambers, Creative Director for Starcraft II, said the plot of each campaign will build upon the previous campaign and the game itself will build on most of the “canon” already out there. Chambers discussed the intricacies of the plot in Blizzard Activision’s oft-delayed Starcraft II with Joystiq yesterday.
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