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Blizzard is Officially ‘Done’ With StarCraft II
StarCraft II is officially over 10-years old now and, I must admit, it is somewhat surprising that despite its age, it has still remained a remarkably popular game. Particularly in the world of ‘competitive’ gaming where events, with impressively high prize pots, are still regularly held. All good things must,…
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StarCraft II Promo Video Pokes Fun at Star Wars Battlefront 2
Blizzard‘s StarCraft II Wings of Liberty is now a free-to-play game starting November 14. Normally, a boring announcement on social media would suffice. However, Blizzard and the StarCraft II team saw an opportunity with the recent Electronic Arts and Star Wars Battlefront II situation and decided to have some fun.…
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StarCraft II Going Free-To-Play Starting November 14
Blizzard is announcing that StarCraft II will be free-to-play very soon starting November 14. The words “free-to-play” has been bandied about by many gaming companies for a while that there are usually follow up questions regarding the catch involved. According to Blizzard, it means exactly what everyone thinks it means.…
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DeepMind AI to Tackle StarCraft II
It looks like the world’s best eSports players could have a tough match on their hands in the near future, possibly, as the team at DeepMind partner up with Blizzard to use StarCraft II as an AI research environment. With the games competitive 1v1 matches, as well as 20-years of…
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Diablo II Being Remade as a Mod for Starcraft II
Diablo III has its good and bad sides, but it definitely doesn’t enjoy the same popularity as its predecessor, Diablo II, which was released by Blizzard Entertainment back in 2000 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Diablo II had a unique mysterious vibe, outstanding music and a frightening story that earned it…
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Twelve Arrested Over Starcraft II Match-Fixing
Twelve people have been arrested following the revelation of match-fixing an illegal betting in Blizzard’s sci-fi real-time strategy Starcraft II, with lifetime bans issued to all offenders, reports Team Liquid. The Changwon Regional Prosecutor’s Office has revealed that PRIME head coach Gerrard (Park Wae-Sik) and programmers YoDa (Choi Byeong-Heon) and BBoongBBoong (Choi Jong-Hyuk) are the most…
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StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Cinematic and Release Date Revealed
These days, it’s often possible for pre-orders to start for a game before the developer has even announced the launch date. StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void is no exception with pre-orders opening up 2 months ago but no launch date yet. That has been rectified today with Blizzard announcing that…
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Dreamhack LAN Event Coming to London This Year!
Have you heard about DreamHack? You haven’t? Well, you should know that it is the biggest computer festival in the world! The best part about it is that it will be hosted at the Copper Box Arena in London this September. The event started out as a StarCraft II competition…
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Blizzard Time Might See Some Changes in StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void
The original StarCraft game by Blizzard is considered to be one of the best RTS games ever released, and its successor, StarCraft II, is definitely worthy of praise as well as it is currently being enjoyed by millions. With the release of the third and final expansion for StarCraft II,…
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Copenhagen Games 2015 Becomes an Official Starcraft II WCS Global Event
The Copenhagen Games 2015 has announced in their recent release that they are now listed as an official WCS Global Event is the Starcraft II World Championship Series. The top finishers can now expect to take a piece of the $10,000 prize pool, as well as be awarded with a…
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StarCraft Subject to Further Allegations of Match-Fixing and Illegal Betting
Three weeks ago, Pinnacle sports, a betting website, voided all bets on a StarCraft II proleague match after noticing suspicious betting patterns that suggested foreknowledge of the match outcome. Now, Olivia Wong, assistant manager of Axiom eSports, has complained on Twitter that match-fixing is rife within the Korean StarCraft community.…
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StarCraft 2: Update 2.1 Bringing Some Huge Changes
StarCraft 2 has some serious changes coming into play and the development team is going to be empowering the community by releasing some new features. By far one of the biggest changes that I see coming will be to essentially make the game nearly free to play. Now the game won’t be entirely…
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GAME Partner with Multiplay and Razer for StarCraft II Wings of Liberty Tournament
Leading video game retailer GAME today revealed that they are teaming up with revolutionary gaming technology provider Razer and global games service provider Multiplay to launch a Starcraft II tournament for UK gamers. The Farewell to Wings of Liberty tournament is a chance for gamers to say goodbye to StarCraft…
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