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Blizzard Plans Achievements Across All Games
August 2nd, 2008 / / by Sol Invictus
Beginning with the implementation of achievements in Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard has announced its plans to implement achievements across all of its games, including the upcoming Diablo III and Starcraft II through the use of a Blizzard Level system tied to a single, universal Blizzard account. World of Warcraft designer Jeff Kaplan revealed some of the following details to MTV’s Multiplayer Blog.
“Eventually, our plans are for the Achievement system to become an account-based system,” he explained.
When the new Blizzard Accounts are active, a player’s ‘WoW’ points can be added to an overall score dubbed an account holder’s “Blizzard Level.” “It’s basically a gamerscore,” Kaplan said, when I made reference to Xbox Live’s Achievement system. “For now the points are just a ‘WoW’ character score. As we graduate to that Blizzard Account system, which is right on the horizon, it will switch over to a Blizzard Level.
Your ‘WoW’ score would be just one factor that will go into your Blizzard Level. And rather than call it a ’score,’ we just wanted it to be like you’re leveling up on Blizzard games… You’ll have this Blizzard identity, and you’ll be able to see things like ‘Oh, this guy was great at Diablo III, but he never played Starcraft and he was mediocre in WoW. That sort of thing.”
There couldn’t be better news.
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…
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.
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.
Comprehensive Stacraft 2 Impressions On Tweakers.net
July 10th, 2008 / / by ThyrsaM
The Dutch site http://Tweakers.net has put up a great article on Starcraft 2.
One of their staffmembers played the game on the WWI in Paris for a couple of hours and has written up a great review of the game.
Since it is in Dutch I took the time to translate the article for all of you.
I hope you enjoy it, because it took me about 4 hours to translate.
Here is the original article.
And below is the translation:
Starcraft 2 - New Hero Unit Revealed
July 5th, 2008 / / by Sp3tSnAz
The official Starcraft 2 website has been updated with news of a hero unit for the Protoss, named Zeratul. The unit is a Dark Templar Prelate.
Bethsoft’s Ashley Cheng Disappointed in Diablo 3
July 1st, 2008 / / by Sol Invictus
Bethesda Softworks’ Ashley Cheng, the Producer of Fallout 3 stated his disappointment of Diablo 3’s announcement on his blog in a post entitled “When the ship runs out of ocean.” These are his exact comments, after the jump: Read more…
Starcraft 2 Information from the WWI
June 29th, 2008 / / by Sol Invictus
Rob Pardo’s developer panel on Starcraft 2 revealed several new details on the game with much to say about the Zerg’s new creep-related abilities, the new purpose of the Protoss Mothership and its de-emphasis as a “Superweapon” and their de-emphasis on Heroic characters within the game.
Joystiq has written up an extremely detailed report on the panel, which can be read here.
Screenshots and Trailers Galore
June 28th, 2008 / / by Sp3tSnAz
The WWI has brought us not only Diablo 3 this year, but has also touched on the other two franchises that Blizzard has. The links below are not from Blizzard websites, they are from a local ISP provider’s gaming website, however the screenshots are placed nicely on one page there and there is direct link downloads to the trailers. However there are also links in those pages to the respective Blizzard websites.
Diablo 3:
Trailer can be seen on the website directly or downloaded below.
Art Trailer
Cinematic Trailer
Gameplay Trailer
Screenshots are available on the site, or on the link below
Starcraft 2:
Screenshots available on the site, or at the link below
Lich King:
Screenshots available on the site, or at the link below
Enjoy 
