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Starcraft 2: How to Activate Antialiasing on Geforce
Having a blast with the Campaign but are annoyed that there’s no option to activate Antialiasing in StarCraft 2? No worries, we’ve got the solution, but only for the happy NVidia video card owners! Sorry, but there’s no such option for Radeon video cards, which is unacceptable by today’s standards for a PC game.
StarCraft 2 Release: Midnight Launch
You’ll have the chance to meet the staff and developers at this StarCraft 2 midnight launch and grovel at their feet. Here’s WHEN and, most importantly, WHERE:
North America:
When: July 26th, 21:00 with members of the StarCraft 2 development team.
Where: “Fry’s Electronics”, 10800 Kalama River Avenue, Fountain Valley, CA 92708
UK, London:
When: July 26th, 22:30 with Carl Chimes, Lead Software Engineer, StarCraft II
Where: “Game Start Here”, 100 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL
StarCraft 2 Release: The Dominion Propaganda
After the release of StarCraft 2 Ghosts of the Past pre-launch trailer for Wings of Liberty™, the Dominion’s propaganda is now complete with two final StarCraft Lore Videos. The empire’s citizenry can breathe a sigh of relief until the day after tomorrow, when Blizzard newest RTS gem will be revealed in all its glory, around the world, at midnight. StarCraft 2 release is a highly anticipated event for the most successful real-time strategy in history, StarCraft.
Starcraft 2 Release: Official Beginner’s Guide (on Battle.Net, RTS basics)
Starcraft 2 Release: Jay Cooper’s Guide (be the very best at StarCraft II)
Starcraft 2 release on Amazon (buy the full game)
Starcraft 2 release on Battle.Net (download the game client; get into StarCraft II faster!)
StarCraft 2 Ghosts of the Past – Pre-Launch Trailer
Warning! The Following Video (StarCraft 2 Ghosts of the Past) Will Blow Your Mind Away… Over and Over Again. And then Again…
Blizzard never failed to amaze with the quality of the videos released with their games. Remember Diablo 2? What about the WarCraft 3 movies? Amazing, simply stunning for their times. Today we offer you StarCraft 2 Ghosts of the Past, which is basically a pre-launch trailer for Wings of Liberty™, set for official release on 26th, this month, at midnight, location: UK, London.
Starcraft 2 Changes: Patch 16 “Secret” Changes
Besides the already published Starcraft 2 changes for Patch 16 on Battle.Net forums, there are few several changes not mentioned in the patch notes, such as:
For Terran:
- Hellions now have a small Cooldown on their rate of fire.
- Ghost ability to not attack a nearby enemy unit has been changed to a Toggle ability (useful when cloaked).
For Zerg:
- Roaches can no longer move under the Sentry Force Fields while burrowed. Really smart change!
- All units inside a Nydus Network can now be seen, which makes unloading of specific units easy.
> $100 Million Invested in the Development of StarCraft II
We already knew that Blizzard took several years to develop StarCraft II, but did you even have a remote clue about how much the sequel actually cost to make? According to Wall Street Journal the game’s budget was over 100,000,000 dollars. That’s about how much GTA IV also cost to develop. Can you even imagine that?
The report doesn’t cite a source but even if that figure is true, StarCraft II is expected to turn a profit for Blizzard and its shareholder, Activision Blizzard. Analysts expect sales of the game to total several million this year worldwide and at $60 per copy that means the game will have to sell “just” 1.7 million copies to go over the $100 million mark.
Top 10 StarCraft 2 Changes
More than 10 years have passed since the classic StarCraft came out… Over a decade of anticipating a sequel for the perfect competitive real-time strategy game of all times. After the headline associated with StarCraft II, enthusiasts everywhere had been allowed to get involved in the development of the video game with suggestions as well as questions on fan web pages and message boards.
Every so often, Blizzard provides Q&A (Questions & Answers) batches, specifics regarding the up to date units, structures, not to mention lore, podcasts (Blizzcasts), videocasts (Battle Reports) in addition to posts by Karune (Kevin Yu) at the BattleNet Discussion message boards. Blizzard listened to the online community of avid gamers which made StarCraft what it is in the present day.
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Starcraft 2 Release at Midnight, on 26, in UK
Blizzard finally announced a midnight release event fοr Starcraft II асrοѕѕ Europe οn July 26. Thе event wіll bе hosted bу GAME’s Oxford Street branch іn London аnd wіll bе attended bу Starcraft II lead software engineer Carl Chimes.
Thе event kicks οff аt 10:30PM bυt Starcraft II won’t bе οn sale until midnight ѕο expect themed shenanigans beforehand. Yου′ll аlѕο bе thе first tο gеt thе Collector’s Edition іf уου attend thе event, ten days frοm now.
Here’s whаt Blizzard hаd tο ѕау:
“Reports οf Zerg activity hаνе bееn coming іn frοm аll асrοѕѕ thе world, аnd wе need уου tο fend οff thе Swarm thаt’s set tο arrive thіѕ summer wіth thе launch οf StarCraft II: Wings οf Liberty.”
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Thіѕ іѕ thе guide thаt hаѕ bееn transforming complete noobs whο hаνе NEVER PLAYED Starcraft II before іntο Diamond Ladder experts іn a matter οf days. Don’t sit thеrе аnd wonder іf уου really want a guide. Keep reading tο find out whу уου NEED іt. Click thе book fοr more information…
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Your Life for the Hive? Play Draco, Free Browser MMORPG!
While you wait for the first installment of StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty™, why don’t you play Draco, a browser-based MMORPG by Evolution Vault? To play it all you need is your browser; no downloads are necessary. And the game is completely FREE! Start your journey to the stars in an epic quest of galactic conquest with the Zerg… pardon, the Avatar. I just can’t hope it… they look like the Zerg.
The story of the game is that the Avatar has awakened and the Prime Evils ascended into space (how original!), searching for fresh blood. Highly efficient killers with the sole purpose of consuming all living, “the Avatars are a symbiotic species which assimilated millions of hosts throughout the galaxy, in order to thrive and be able to modify their surroundings.”
These aliens have some cool structures which, apparently, stayed buried deep underground for centuries, waiting to be triggered by the evolution of intelligent life. The game play itself is fairly straightforward if you’ve ever played any of the more traditional browser games, such as Travian. Regardless, I enjoyed the game very much and I highly recommend it. It’s a fun browser MMORPG to play in your spare time, when you want to relax a few minutes.
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The Official StarCraft 2 Release Date
Blizzard announced recently that its highly anticipated real-time strategy game, StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty™, will arrive in stores on JULY 27, this year. It’s not a joke folks; this came directly from a genuine Blizzard PR.
Finally some good news! Go ahead, do your celebration dance now. Play a little more beta… then come back here for more updates!
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