#pc
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty players shouldn't be wanting for custom-made maps—and wildly different game types—thanks to the game's Galaxy Editor. But an officially released Blizzard-made map is worth getting a little excited about. More »
#starcraft
Starcraft II sold a million copies in its first 24 hours on sale. Not bad, but not as great as the last new Blizzard game to be released. How'd it do, then, in its first month on sale? More »
#starcraft
Starcraft's Baneling is a Zerg unit, meaning it's a slimy, repulsive bug sort of thing. That explodes. Luckily this plush representation is a little more cuddly! More »
#blizzard
StarCraft and Diablo maker Blizzard already has a World of Warcraft film in development with Spider-man director Sam Raimi. What might twist the arm of Blizzard's top creators to get a StarCraft movie underway? James Cameron might! More »
#blizzard
StarCraft and Diablo maker Blizzard already has a World of Warcraft film in development with Spider-man director Sam Raimi. What might twist the arm of Blizzard's top creators to get a StarCraft movie underway? James Cameron might! More »
#iphone
Developer Daniel Hellerman has let us know about an interesting little project he's working on: an app that promises to let you control Starcraft II from your iPhone (or iPad). More »
#starcraft
Having been out in the wild for almost a month now, Blizzard has decided that changes are in order for Starcraft II, and will soon be making a number of balance tweaks for the game's first major update. More »
Just one month after releasing its blockbuster RTS, Blizzard has announced a major upcoming patch for StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. The update will open up left-hander-friendly hotkey options for all regions, will add some new mod and map editor functionality, will incorporate support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, and will make a whole slew of balance changes so mind-shatteringly esoteric that we wouldn't know how to begin describing them.
Check out a partial list of changes over on Battle.net, and think about the impact which the Ultralisk's five-point damage reduction against armored targets is going to make in the grand scope your life.
#college
Starcraft is being used to teach resource management skills in a new course offering at the University of Florida - but it's only open to students in the honors college, and students have to have some familiarity with the game. More »
#art
Sarah Kerrigan, aka Starcraft's Queen of Blades, is not a real person. Well, not a real thing. That being the case, this is as close as you'll probably ever get to her. More »
#screengrab
Until that unreal StarCraft FarmVille mod becomes a reality, FarmVille's millions of fans can use this helpful image to understand what in the world this StarCraft II thing is all about. [Via Rafardeon's Soup] More »
#pc
News from Blizzard today is that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will allow you to change your character name, something our biggest StarCraft fan on the team tells me is "huge." More »
#screengrab
Graffiti in London promoting Meeting Of Styles 2010, an annual graffiti artists' get-together happening Aug. 21. As seen on World Graffiti Urban Art via Hot Blooded Gaming. More »
With StarCraft 2 out in homes, mixing it up on over a million motherboards, the modding community's efforts are finally bearing fruit with the Galaxy Map Editor. This latest mod, which turns the real-time strategy game into a third-person shooter, comes courtesy of Denmark's own Mads. Rush past the break and check it out.
#china
Think you have it rough? You might! But gamers in China have it rough. Consoles, while widely sold, are illegal. This means that gamers do not have official support. The government continues to crackdown on online games. More »
#starcraft
Blizzard's Starcraft: Ghost may have died an inglorious death, but third-person action junkies can get their Starcraft fix via this neat map that does pretty much the same thing, only in Starcraft II. More »
#clips
We've already seen plenty of creative StarCraft II mods change the real-time strategy game into racers, side-scrolling shooters and more. But modder Mads Lund's injection of futuristic, zombie apocalyptic, third-person shooting may be the most promising. More »
#blizzard
Unlike the original StarCraft, Blizzard is reviewing player-made maps for StarCraft II, deleting those they deem inappropriate. When players in the forums ask why, Blizzard responds, "Because we can." More »
#starcraft
I've clicked on a lot of Thors in my time with Starcraft II, but I've never heard one talk back to me like this one does at around the 1:00 mark. More »
#sales
It took StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty just 24 hours to become the best-selling PC game of the year, with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, according to Blizzard Entertainment. More »
Completely unsurprising news now, as your usual thieves and unsavory types have crawled out from the woodwork to capitalize on the launch of the biggest PC title perhaps ever, StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. These "people" are sending out phishing emails in the hopes of getting folks' Battle.net account info, all under the guise of helping you get an activation key.
It comes with the territory: Battle.net and Blizzard's games are by no means impervious to these scams, nor have they been in the past, but Siliconera's example of one phishing email presents a pretty convincing ruse. Hopefully, in some small way, we can all help fewer people fall prey to this particular trick.
