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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm expands beta test

John Callaham — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:43:06 +0000

Blizzard has expanded its ongoing multiplayer beta test for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm to include those players who have pre-ordered the RTS expansion pack. Read more...

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm coming March 12th

John Callaham — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:17:51 +0000

Blizzard has announced that it will release its long awaited RTS expansion pack StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm on March 12th, in Standard and Collector's editions and a Digital Deluxe Edition. Read more...

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm getting multiplayer XP system

John Callaham — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:46:44 +0100

Blizzard plans to add a new feature in the StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm expansion pack that will give multiplayer gamers a leveling system that will add new decals or portraits. Read more...

Blizzard looking into free-to-play for StarCraft II multiplayer

John Callaham — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:19:16 +0100

A new report claims that Blizzard is looking into possibly turning the multiplayer portion of StarCraft II into a free-to-play game but has yet to determine how to make money from that effort. Read more...

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm multiplayer beta begins

John Callaham — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:21:28 +0100

Blizzard has announced that the multiplayer beta test for its RTS expansion pack StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm has begun, but is currently limited to a very small outside audience. Read more...

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm beta to start "soon"

John Callaham — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:26:07 +0100

Blizzard has announced that it will begin inviting people outside the developer to start beta testing its upcoming RTS expansion pack StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm "soon". Read more...

StarCraft II gets big 1.5.0 update

John Callaham — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:37:30 +0100

StarCraft II has received a major new update, bringing the RTS game up to version 1.5.0 with a number of new features, including the Arcade game discovery mode and more. Read more...

StarCraft II home made arcade controller revealed

John Callaham — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:40:35 +0100

The fighting game fan site Shoryuken sponsored a contest for people to design a arcade-style controller for Blizzard's RTS game StarCraft II, and this week the winner was selected. Read more...

Blizzard: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is "99% done"

John Callaham — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:23:01 +0100

StarCraft II's lead designer Dustin Browder has said that the first expansion for the game, Heart of the Swarm, is "99% done" but the push to complete the final one percent may take a while. Read more...

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm playable at June MLG event‎

John Callaham — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:23:57 +0100

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm will get its first public playable demo on June 8th-10th during the Major League Gaming tournament event in Anaheim, California. Read more...

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm gets multiplayer dev update

John Callaham — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:49:38 +0100

Blizzard has offered up a new update on StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, going over some of the multiplayer features planned for the upcoming RTS expansion pack. Read more...

Gaming news round-up: October 17-23

John Callaham — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:20:02 +0100

The weekly gaming news round-up feature returns with Diablo III, Battlefield 3, World of Warcraft, Batman Arkham City, Portal 2, Mass Effect 3, Prison Architect, Mechwarrior 5 and more Read more...

Blizzard DOTA to be made available for free ... kind of

John Callaham — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:40:30 +0100

Blizzard DOTA, the upcoming StarCraft II action-RTS mod, will be playable for free via the StarCraft 2 Starter Edition, although free players will be able to access even more content for a fee. Read more...

Microsoft and other tech companies battle in StarCraft II league

John Callaham — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:10:33 +0100

Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter and other tech companies have fielded teams to compete in a StarCraft II online tournament. Read more...

Starcraft II Heart of the Swarm teaser trailer leaked

John Callaham — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:34:01 +0100

After years and years of waiting, Blizzard finally released StarCraft II in July 2010. The long awaited sequel to the hit PC RTS game was welcomed by gamers and became one of the most acclaimed... Read more...

Blizzard "targeting" Diablo III beta for third quarter 2011

John Callaham — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:06:57 +0100

Fans of the Diablo action-RPG franchise might want to pencil in some vacation time later on this year. During Activision Blizzard's financial conference call, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime said that the long awaited third game... Read more...

StarCraft II easter eggs uncovered

Darren Tebo — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:46:05 +0100

With the pressures involved with making StarCraft II a worthy sequel, it is hard to imagine how Blizzard has found the time to include easter eggs. However, they have apparently included them anyway. According to... Read more...

Blizzard backs down on Real ID for forums

Brenton Currie — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:57:57 +0100

Earlier this week, and to the dismay of the many users of Blizzard's official forums, Blizzard announced it would soon force all users to use their "Real ID" -- or their real name -- to... Read more...

Blizzard announces changes in attempt to cull forum trolls

Owen Williams — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:45:34 +0100

With the release of the beta of Starcraft II, Blizzard introduced a new feature called "Real ID" -- essentially the feature is your "real-life" full name being used as your username. The feature was trumpeted... Read more...