There’s this guy who says that Blizzard’s next massively multiplayer game is “a total ball to play”. He says the game, code-named Titan, is “the type of game that will have a very long life, much like World of Warcraft has”.
This guy is biased. He’s Paul Sams and he works at Blizzard. He’s the chief operating officer of the makers of World of Warcraft. Should we trust this man?
His quotes come from a recent interview with trade site Gamasutra, in which he describes Titan as “the most am...
20 years after founding one of the biggest names in gaming, Blizzard’s co-founders have put together a video in order to thank their fans for making them who they are.
It’s incredible to look back and see how far the gaming industry has come in just the past few years. Looking back, it’s amazing to see just how far some companies have come.
It’s a wonder to think that the gaming Goliath that has come to be known as Blizzard was, 20 years ago, just another small company created by two men ...
Your Battle.net account is slowly becoming the commodity that represents you as a Blizzard gamer. Slowly but surely, your Battle.net identity is going to morph more and more into a social profile. World of Warcraft's armory website was the prototype. The new WoW community site takes things one step further. Over time, Battle.net could look like a Blizzard Facebook, as you friend people on the site, communicate in and out of game via a unified mailbox, and share screenshots and information wit...
Heart of the Swarm delivers the zerg campaign – the second of three campaigns that make up the entire SCII experience. The first, Wings of Liberty, released in July to critical and commercial acclaim.
"We're working on it as hard as we can. We're really trying to push on this and get it out as soon as we can.
"I don't think you'll be playing it this year. That seems very unlikely to me. But we're pounding away on it as fast as we possibly can."
Read the full article at eurogamer.net
Twenty years is an eternity in the games industry. Few studios last anywhere near that long before either being consumed within a publishing company, or closing down entirely. Formed this week in February 1991, Blizzard Entertainment (then known as Silicon & Synapse), has not only survived, it has become one of the most powerful names in the industry, its name forged with Activision's to form the industry's largest publisher.
The compay's big brands – Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo and World ...
Twenty-five-year-old StarCraft II player Kim Won Gi took the South Korean gaming world by storm last year. Some might know him by his pro-gaming handle “Cool”, but to many, he’s “FruitDealer”, the best StarCraft II player there is.
Kim earned the “FruitDealer” moniker because he helps his mother run a food stall in his native South Korea. “I prefer to keep the details private, but my mother started her fruit stall recently,” Kim tells Kotaku, “and it’s been about two years since I started ...
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According to Blizzard, two new games will be released in 2012 if nothing gets released in 2011. So basically we have a "It'll be released when it's done" here.
During an investors conference call today, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime revealed the news that we won't be seeing any of the company's games this year. It's also hesitant to announce any release date for Diablo III because it doesn't want to rush the game and risk its quality.
Besides Diablo III, Blizzard c...
Blizzard Entertainment’s sixth BlizzCon gaming celebration to be held at Anaheim Convention Center October 21-22, 2011
PARIS, France -- February 7, 2011 -- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced plans for its sixth BlizzCon® gaming convention, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22, 2011. BlizzCon is a celebration of the global player communities surrounding Blizzard Entertainment’s Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and ...
Blizzard have made three new custom games available to beta test on Battle.net. The modes are still under development, but Blizzard are keen to get some feedback from the community. More details follow.
The first of the three new games is Aiur Chef, a free-for-all for up to 8 players. The game mode has quite the sense of humour about it, revolving around cooking. Players will have to scout out the map searching for ingredients, before returning to the kitchen in the centre of the map to pu...
Blizzard Entertainment has clarified that it never intended to hinder the development of a 'World of StarCraft' MMO mod for StarCraft II developed by Ryan Winzen.
"It was never our intention to stop development on the mod or discourage the community from expressing their creativity through the StarCraft II editor," Blizzard said in a statement. " As always, we actively encourage development of custom maps and mods for StarCraft II, as we’ve done with our strategy games in the past."
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After a long weekend of digging through the maps, and consideration of the community's feedback we've chosen the winners for the melee map making contest. There were over 100 entries, and we had to narrow it down to only 5.
Grand Prize Winner
First off, our grand prize winner, for an NVIDIA GTX 460 graphics card:
Dunes of Despair
This was an amazing map to play, and the quality is almost as much as I could expect out of any competitive map. It's very pleasant to look at, and w...
The contest is now closed for submissions and we have opened up the entries for reviews. Remember, 50% of the final score is based on what you think of the map. So head on over and check out the 100+ entries and let the authors know what you think!
Unsure how to review a map? Most of the maps that have been submitted you aren't going to be able to find online. Sadly, this means you can't test them out in a real environment. You'll only be able to test them out solo (sandbox) or against a c...
We're almost a week and a half into our contest and already have almost 50 amazing submissions. Great job everyone who's already entered! Remember, you still have around two and a half weeks to get your submissions in, don't wait until it's too late!
The first week in September we will open up a public review page allowing any member to give their feedback and vote on each submission. This will count for up to 50% of the maps final score. Finally on, September 10th we'll announce the winne...
Our contest for August is being sponsored by NVIDIA, and they're going to give one lucky winner a brand new graphics card to make sure your game is the best it can be. This also marks our first true mapping contest, so get those editors running.
For more details, and to enter the contest, head on over to the StarCraft 2 melee map making details page.
I've been given the opportunity to review one of the new mid class cards from NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 460. These typically run around $200, which in the past would get you mediocre results at best. I can't quite say what has changed in the last few years, but I can say that the game is changing. To give some background for this, I've ...
Starcraft II was patched today moments ago:
Bug Fixes
Campaign saves have been optimized.
Fixed an issue with sound not playing on some 7.1 systems.
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The long awaited day has arrived, and the GameStops have been conquered. After 10 years, today marks the release of StarCraft 2. If you ordered your copy digitally, or were one of the lucky to show up at a midnight release, then you're already experiencing what everyone else is waiting for.
For everyone else, we anxiously await your overnight shipment tomorrow morning, and look forward to seeing you in game!
Oh, and while I've got you here. Make sure you check back Monday when we launc...
With a prize pool in excess of $500 dollars and a line-up of pro gamers straight from an e-sport fan's wet dream, this is going to be one epic tournament. It only gets better too, to top it off there are 96 open slots for everyday Starcraft 2 gamer's to sign-up and test their mettle against the pros. Get 'em quick though, the slots won't last long! For those that don't get in, you can expect to be able to watch the final rounds via live stream and later all the rounds through the release of r...
Enjoy your extra free time to play online everyone!This was a good choice for Blizzard after Patch 13 and it's terrible (read: community feedback)additions that it added which resulted in unstable gameplay, map publishing that was later removed, and the secret addition to censoring custom made maps.
Full Blizzard announcement below.
We previously announced that the first phase of the StarCraft II beta test would be coming to a close in all regions on Monday, May 31. In order to prepar...
As of Today Patch 13 went live to servers! The most notable (exciting) addition is the map publishing and social networking features being included.
Other changes that they don't go into detail can be found with things like Starcraft II's beta being connected to the rest of battle.net, showing total number of players being played as well as "remaining game time." Unfortunately there is no integration beyond that from what can be seen.
There are also GUI options for the inevitable s...
If you're still one of the unlucky few to not have a beta account, here's your chance to win a beta key. How do you enter? Well, we'll keep this one simple. Reply to this article and tell us what you love, and what you hate about Nibbits. We're not looking for the best answers, but definitely will not be giving keys to the worst (and I dont mean worst, by you hurt our feelings). Just interested in general feedback and things you'd like to see over here.
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