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Starcraft2.com updated with massive amounts of new content

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:18:38 -0500

Seems during the quiet spell of lack of Starcraft 2 news, the Blizzard's web team has been busy at work updating the official Starcraft 2 website with tons of new content. Check it out:

source sc2pod

StarCraft 2 Q&A Batch 55 released

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:26:25 -0500

Fan Art - 3D Model of a Protoss Dark Templar

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:18:19 -0500

This work of fan art really caught my eye with the fine detail and impressive modeling skills. Also the artist used 3D studio Max, which I used in school. Thanks to our friends at Starcraft2.net.pl for the scoop.

More screenshots, click for big!

Source: Starcraft2.net.pl

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BlizzCon 2010 in Vegas?

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:59:30 -0500

Starcraft.org found this here.

Interesting, note the timing of the convection as well. With the Starcraft 2 Beta pushed back to 2010, and release mentioned for Quarter 2 (Apr-June).

Source Starcraft.org's Twitter

The Zerg Brutalisk revealed

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:26:05 -0500

http://bit.ly/4dWphk

The Dustin Browder Soundboard

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:58:15 -0500

Check this out, a Flash developed sound board featuring sayings from one of our favorite Starcraft 2 developers, Dustin Browder

Created by sc2films.com via the official Starcraft twitter. Btw don't forget to follow us on twitter

Starcraft 2 Beta pushed to 2010, release in 2nd Quarter

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:45:51 -0500

Our affiliates at SC2pod reported on the Russian gaming expo IgroMir, some good news and bad news. Good news we have dates for the StarCraft 2 beta and release! Bad news is that the dates aren't exact still, beta pushed back to 2010, with release Q 2 (Quarter 2 is Apr. - Jun.)

From SC2pod.com

Pandemic.Gretorp interview in Korea

no.spam@gameriot.com (PuertoRican) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:44:44 -0500

After IEF Suwon 2009 ended, Gretorp and a bunch of others were taken up to Seoul by Artosis and company. While in the best city in the world, Gretorp was interviewed and talked about his time in the country.

Pandemic.Gretorp interview in Korea

Random Dev updates about Starcraft 2

no.spam@gameriot.com (Mr.Pibbs) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:02:23 -0500

Is the proper name Radar Tower or Sensor Tower?

source Cydra on Bnet via SC2armory

EG.Machine interview in Korea - the best experience of my life

no.spam@gameriot.com (PuertoRican) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:10:56 -0500

After IEF Suwon 2009 ended, Machine and a bunch of others were taken up to Seoul by Artosis and company. While in the best city in the world, Machine was interviewed and talked about his time in the country.

EG.Machine interview in Korea

IEF Suwon 2009 - EXCLUSIVE 17 Warcraft 3 replay pack!

no.spam@gameriot.com (PuertoRican) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:39:17 -0500

People have been asking for a replay pack from the event, and so we decided to make one for you, that can only be found at SCForAll.com.

There are a total of 17 games featuring players like Grubby, Lyn, Soccer, Who, TH000, TeD, Nicker, Infi, and many more.

IEF Suwon 2009 Warcraft 3 replay pack.

Starcraft Weekly with Artosis - Episode 26

no.spam@gameriot.com (PuertoRican) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:55:10 -0500

Hello folks, the Starcraft Weekly show returns after a long week at IEF and taking care of the foreign Starcraft players who attended the event. Videos from the IEF event can be seen here.

During episode 26, Artosis covers such things as the recent IEF Suwon 2009 finals, ESL Major Series, SC For Life lan, TeamLiquid’s Premonition, recent Korean ownage, Stork and his recent happenings, as well as Pro League.

Starcraft Weekly with Artosis - Episode 26.

KeSPA launches English version of their website

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:53:34 -0500

Korean e-Sports Player Association(KeSPA), the NBA/NFL/MBL/NHL of Starcraft is finally offering an English version of their website for the foreign community.

This is great news for all Starcraft eSport fans world wide, now if only they would quit their dirty politics :/

Source: KeSPA via SCLegacy

Translated Korean Blue Posts about StarCraft 2

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:03:26 -0500

Our friends at SCLegacy have been translating Korean Blue posts the last couple of months, here are some highlights:

Makes the unit invisible so that enemy units cannot see or attack the unit. 25 energy cost (A set energy cost every second after initial cast)

Quote: Where the hell did you hear that the StarCraft II Ghost had Lockdown?

Not everyone knows all StarCraft II info exactly. Please be more considerate to others.

You can check out a ton more Korean Blue Posts here on SCLegacy

IEF Suwon 09 full coverage - videos, pictures, etc.

no.spam@gameriot.com (PuertoRican) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:37:54 -0500

The glorious event that was IEF Suwon 2009 is now complete, with day 3 wrapping up the event which had a slew of award ceremonies, most importantly the Starcraft portion with Stork, Terror, and IdrA accepting the medals and flowers.

Complete coverage of the IEF Suwon 2009 event can be found below, featuring various videos, pictures, and results.

Starcraft

1st. Stork - $10,000
2nd. Terror - $5,000
3rd. IdrA - $2,000
4th. White-Ra

Warcraft 3

1st. Fly100% - $10,000
2nd. Infi - $5,000
3rd. TH000 - $2,000
4th. TeD

IEF Suwon 2009 - map pool announced
IEF Suwon 2009 - official players list & additional information
IEF Suwon 2009 - day 1 opening video and pictures
IEF Suwon 2009 - group drawing video!!!
IEF Suwon 2009 - day 2 various clips
IEF Suwon 2009 - IdrA final interview
IEF Suwon 2009 - day 3 award ceremony
IEF Suwon 2009 Starcraft replay pack

I review the Razer NAGA mmo gaming mouse

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:01:34 -0400

The RAZER Naga MMO gaming mouse

First off all I want to say thanks again to Razer for sending me this, it is their expansion into the competitive MMO gaming scene. The main feature that makes this an MMO mouse of course is the 12 custom buttons on the left hand side.

The box opening

The nice matte no slick top, shiney sides and blue lights makes this a pretty mouse as well as a good grip mouse.

The padding on the bottom of the mouse goes all the way around and isn't like your standard oval pads, so imo the Naga's pads will last a very long time and you will keep the same smooth flowing feel a thousand hours later.

The braided cord is also another plus if you are a competitive gamer and hate getting your cords tangled or stuck on the desk.

Overall this is a great mouse for MMO players and at $79.99 not a back breaking price for a high-end mouse.

Hi-Res photos

Official Razer site

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Last Razer product review: The StarCraft 2 Messenger Bag

BlizzCast 11 is out

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:44:59 -0400

In our eleventh episode of BlizzCast, we have a roundtable discussion with members of the community team to recap the major happenings, announcements, and other highlights of this year’s BlizzCon. Join our discussion as we relive some of our favorite moments from the show. - Blizzard

Listen to the newest BlizzCast here and check out the transcript.

Starcraft 2 discussion with Ret & Artosis

no.spam@gameriot.com (PuertoRican) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:33:41 -0400

We’ve returned with another Starcraft 2 discussion, while we know its been awhile since the last video, there just wasn’t much to cover since then.

Artosis returns as the main speaker of the video, and is accompanied this time by the latest foreign Starcraft player in Korea, and #1 European player, Ret.

Starcraft 2 discussion with Ret & Artosis

Dustin Browder interviewed on the design of StarCraft 2

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:50:42 -0400

Gamasutra recently sat down with Browder to discuss the inevitable difficulties that come with updating a 10-year-old game while trying to steadfastly avoid feature creep -- and why even after more than half a decade making RTS games, he still wasn't fully prepared for a lead design role at Blizzard.

With StarCraft II, you've said you're trying to avoid making a game that is significantly more complex than StarCraft, even as many individual elements change. How do you make the call as to what stays and what goes?

DB: It's just really tough. We have to make these calls on a daily basis. There were for a long time, and there's still a little bit of it, big debates on the team as to what is enough and what is not enough. What is too much?

We just walked the line, and we look at stuff that we sort of feel is core to the experience: "This is a defining element of the Zerg. We have to have the creep. It's defining." Or, "Siege tanks are a defining element for the Terrans." Then we look at elements where we'll say, "This was fun. We love these things. The fans have obviously been using them. Vultures and spider mines are huge -- but they're not defining elements. You could live without them. I can imagine the Terran army without these things."

So it's a combination of conceptual elements and mechanics. Where we think we can do better, we'll try do better. Stuff that we feel conceptually is not necessary, we'll remove. We've always felt that solo play and Battle.net were the areas where we could really do some stuff that was crazy, that was new and really interesting. And multiplayer really needed to harken to the game's legacy, while at the same time creating enough strategies so you don't think, "Well, I've played this game for ten years, guys. What are you giving me here?"

We want to have enough that it's still fresh. I think we're walking the line pretty well right now.

Even between the single-player and the multiplayer, there have been design differences that mean there are discrepancies in terms of what units are available.

DB: Totally.

Do you worry about that being unintuitive, especially for people who are new to StarCraft?

DB: Not really. We did for a little bit, but then we looked back at our previous games and realized that our solo campaigns have never prepared anybody for an online experience at all. That never worked, right? We always sort of touted it that way -- "It's going to prepare you" -- but it never really did.

Looking back at that, we feel that never really works anyway. This lets us make a much more compelling solo play experience. It can run free and be its own gameplay experience with all kinds of units and all kinds of upgrades, which wouldn't have been possible if we'd restricted ourselves to only the multiplayer set, because the multiplayer wants to become small.

It wants to be reasonable. It wants to be enough that you can keep everything in your head -- so not only do I know what I can do next, but I know what you can do next, and I can play the game in my head a little bit before we actually engage.

You want that sense of there being a very limited number of opening moves in chess, and then a larger set of second moves, and so on.

DB: Yeah. And how many moves can I think ahead of you? That's determining whether I can win or not. So the multiplayer experience needs to be really tight, while the solo play experience doesn't have to be that tight in that sense.

But if we restricted ourselves to the multiplayer units [in single-player], we would ultimately lose a lot of gameplay. We've got a lot of tools that we're going to use -- our challenge mode, like our tutorials, like our improved score screen and improved replay screens -- all to try to help players make that transition from solo play to multiplayer so they can acquire the right skills, instead of leaning on something that never really worked with to begin with.

Check out the rest of the interview here: Gamasutra
Via StarCraft Source

The Lost Temple 2.0

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:28:00 -0400

The official Starcraft 2 Battle Report 4 is now on Starcraft2.com. If you already saw Lumi's post here, the new map featured in this report is the SC2 version of The Lost Temple, a map I played most my Starcraft matches on... I know it's not the most balanced, but I loved it still and I was a Toss player.

Here is a graphic showing off the new Lost Temple in full detail:

click for big

The Original Lost Temple from StarCraft

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Starcraft Weekly with Artosis - Episode 25

no.spam@gameriot.com (PuertoRican) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:51:39 -0400

Back for its 25th episode, the Starcraft Weekly brings you a ton of information this week on both the Korean and non-Korean scene.

Artosis officially released the IEF Suwon 2009 player list for Starcraft, which is not posted anywhere else, he talks about the WCG grand final groups that were recently released, Nal_rA’s interview by lilsusie, Justin.TV Starcraft Invitational, Rets first day in Korea, Pro League, OSL, MSL, a battle report of UpMagic vs. Iris, Starcraft 2 Battle Report 4, and more.

You can view Episode 25 here.

Support a Charity by watching some StarCraft this weekend

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:08:22 -0400

Charity Cast 4pm this Sunday!

Diggity will be commentating games from Team EG which will be supporting the Child's Play Charity. Check the video for more info!

Ret in Korea - Day 1

no.spam@gameriot.com (PuertoRican) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:34:27 -0400

One of the two most famous non-Koreans of the year, Ret, landed in South Korea just shy of one week ago. Artosis and company were there to greet the newest addition to the pro gaming scene.

In the first 4 minutes of the video, you’ll see the Nerd Pack wait and at the airport and meet up with Ret, followed by a 13+ minute video of Artosis facing Ret, which was his first official game in Korea.

An interview will be conducted with Dutchman before he heads to IEF in a couple weeks, so look out for that.

Also, for those who have slow internet connections, we’ll be uploading Rets coverage in Korea to our YouTube channel a couple days after each video is officially released, so watch out for that.

You can view the video here.

ESports report 2 by HuskyStarcraft

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:43:04 -0400

HuskyStarcraft's 2nd episode from his new Esports channel on youtube. He will be covering the 3 Korean KESPA leagues and the next GOMTV season pretty heavily so stay tuned!

Part 1

PArt 2

Episode 1

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StarCraft II Q&A Batch 54

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:09:55 -0400

---StarCraft II Q&A Batch 54 --- posted by Cydra

[SC2 Forum]
1. Does the Zergling vs. Zealot ratio remain at 4:1 or has it changed in the latest builds?

Starcraft Weekly with Artosis - Episode 24

no.spam@gameriot.com (PuertoRican) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:13:26 -0400

Alright folks, it’s currently the day before Ret arrives in Korea, time to get excited!

Artosis brings you the Starcraft Weekly show, Episode 24 and focuses on the Justin.TV Invitational, Ansadi StarLeague 2, Nostalgia tournament, Fnatic tournament, Rets trip to Korea, recent ICCUP news, IEF information, Bisu and the OSL, Fantasy and the MSL, Leta and Pro League, Nal_Ra and his job transfer, Nal_Keke retires, and more.

You can view Episode 24 here.

ESPORTS Report by HuskyStarcraft

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:20:30 -0400

HuskyStarcraft launches his ESports Report channel on Youtube. Check out episode 1 released last week below He intends to cover not just Starcraft news(which it will mostly be) but general ESports news from around the globe.

If you don't know yet, HuskyStarcraft is one of the newer Starcraft commentators on the scene, commented the round of 32 for our Valor tournament and various professional matches throughout the Korean leagues. He also has a blog here on Starfeeder

HuskyStarcraft's YouTube Channel
ESports Report Channel
HuskyStarcraft on Twitter
Starfeeder on Twitter

3D Protoss fanart + cool Kerrigan wallpaper

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:54:48 -0400

There continues to be amazing art put out by Starcraft fans (not just WoW nerds) Check out the most recent ones:

Protoss Zealot by Whip01

Sarah Kerrigan Wallpaper

Blizzard hires new Web programmer, miles aka GearVosh from sc2armory.com

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:54:51 -0400

Also last week my friend Miles, aka GearVosh(sc2armory) also got a job at Blizzard, along with Mr. Jack from SCsource.

- GearVosh

Source

StarCraft source's Mr.Jack gets job at Blizzard as artist

no.spam@gameriot.com (Lipton) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:29:14 -0400

Mr. Jack, badass Australian artist and part of StarcraftSource's staff just last week got a job over at Blizzard, thanks to his amazing work.

For more of Mr. Jack's works check out Starcraft Source's Gallery here.

Blog Posts from "STARFEEDER" - Gameriot.com

Starcraft2.com updated with massive amounts of new content

StarCraft 2 Q&A Batch 55 released

Fan Art - 3D Model of a Protoss Dark Templar

More screenshots, click for big!

BlizzCon 2010 in Vegas?

Interesting, note the timing of the convection as well. With the Starcraft 2 Beta pushed back to 2010, and release mentioned for Quarter 2 (Apr-June).Source Starcraft.org's Twitter

The Zerg Brutalisk revealed

The Dustin Browder Soundboard

Starcraft 2 Beta pushed to 2010, release in 2nd Quarter

Pandemic.Gretorp interview in Korea

Random Dev updates about Starcraft 2

EG.Machine interview in Korea - the best experience of my life

IEF Suwon 2009 - EXCLUSIVE 17 Warcraft 3 replay pack!

Starcraft Weekly with Artosis - Episode 26

KeSPA launches English version of their website

Translated Korean Blue Posts about StarCraft 2

IEF Suwon 09 full coverage - videos, pictures, etc.

I review the Razer NAGA mmo gaming mouse

The RAZER Naga MMO gaming mouse

Hi-Res photos

BlizzCast 11 is out

Starcraft 2 discussion with Ret & Artosis

Dustin Browder interviewed on the design of StarCraft 2

The Lost Temple 2.0

Here is a graphic showing off the new Lost Temple in full detail:

Starcraft Weekly with Artosis - Episode 25

Support a Charity by watching some StarCraft this weekend

Charity Cast 4pm this Sunday!

Ret in Korea - Day 1

ESports report 2 by HuskyStarcraft

StarCraft II Q&A Batch 54

Starcraft Weekly with Artosis - Episode 24

ESPORTS Report by HuskyStarcraft

3D Protoss fanart + cool Kerrigan wallpaper

Blizzard hires new Web programmer, miles aka GearVosh from sc2armory.com

StarCraft source's Mr.Jack gets job at Blizzard as artist

Interesting, note the timing of the convection as well. With the Starcraft 2 Beta pushed back to 2010, and release mentioned for Quarter 2 (Apr-June).

Source Starcraft.org's Twitter