Archive for July, 2008:
BlizzCon Tickets Set for August 11 Sale, DirecTV Broadcasting Live in HD
July 30th, 2008 / / by Sol Invictus
Blizzard announced today that the tickets for BlizzCon 2008 will be available for sale this upcoming August 11 and that the show will be set to go on October 10-11 in Anaheim, California.
Tickets will be priced at $100 a pop and will be made available for purchase online at the BlizzCon website. Participants can probably expect to get a goodie bag upon arrival. If I lived in the United States, I’d certainly count myself among its participants.
Blizzard also noted that DirecTV will be providing live coverage of the event with a minimum of eight hours coverage on a pay per view basis. Starting in August, new subscribers to DirecTV will receive the event for free.
StarCraft II Q&A - Batch 42
July 29th, 2008 / / by NeutralGround
Karune has posted yet another question and answer session for us on the official Starcraft 2 forums. Most of the questions are related to specialized information that may not be super important to those who haven’t been hounding all over every piece of information
StarCraft II, The Greatest eSport The World Has Ever Seen
July 26th, 2008 / / by Sol Invictus
I have a guest post today by Lipton, of Starfeeder, a prominent blogger in the Starcraft community.
The rest of this post will tell you why I chose that title and why it resonates.
First how did StarCraft get to where it is today?
It undeniably owns the title of best RTS game of all time, what are the key factors that make this statement true? Read more…
IGN On Diablo 3 Lore
July 25th, 2008 / / by Sp3tSnAz
IGN has a new interview up with Leonard Boyarsky, the game’s lead world designer. The interview is mainly about the lore of the game, how closely it matches up to the old games, how the lore will appeal both to hardcore and casual player as well as character voices.
The best parts of the interview can be seen below, while you can see the rest of it over at IGN.
New StarCraft II Planet Bio - Mar Sara
July 25th, 2008 / / by Sp3tSnAz
The official Blizzard website has been updated with news of a new Starcraft Planet as well as some new art and screenshots.
Babes of ChinaJoy 2008
July 24th, 2008 / / by Sol Invictus
Blizzard Guru’s correspondent in China, Vivian, attended this year’s ChinaJoy gaming expo and while she was there she took a few pictures of some of the exhibition’s booth babes.
You can check out the pictures she took right after the jump.
New Diablo III Media @ Official Site
July 24th, 2008 / / by Sol Invictus
Blizzard has added three new pieces of artwork, two new screenshots, and one new wallpaper on the Official Website. Likewise, we have added the images to our gallery.
In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve also added a gallery of booth babes from ChinaJoy 2008 (It’s the Chinese E3) which you can check out here.
Possible Hints at New Classes
July 24th, 2008 / / by Sp3tSnAz
With the release of the new PC Powerplay preview of Diablo 3, rumours have begun to pop up on a few sites of a possible new class in one of the screenshots. While two of the classes are currently known, there are three that are being speculated on from Sorceresses, Bow Users, Druids, Necromancers as well as a myriad of other classes.
PC Powerplay Blizzard Exclusives Edition
July 24th, 2008 / / by Sp3tSnAz
The most current issue of PC Powerplay, an Australian Gaming magazine (Issue #155 for those of you playing along at home), has featured a cover story on Blizzard. The main report is on Diablo 3, which has a five page write up on it, as well as a few exclusive screenshots, however there is also a page of hands on time with Starcraft 2.
To add there is also a one page feature on Mods for Diablo 2, which should keep you entertained until Diablo 3 comes out.
Computer and Video Games Diablo 3 Preview
July 24th, 2008 / / by Sp3tSnAz
CVG has a new article up today, which has an interview with the team behind Diablo 3.
The interview talks of core philosophies with the game, the new gameplay, as well as the storyline.
