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Starcraft 2 Shooter

High Executor — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:03:27 +0000

Quick entry: some guy took the Starcraft 2 editor and created a zombie apocalypse Mod with it. Check out the Starcraft 2 shooter bellow and don’t be a skeptic.

The Starcraft 2 shooter supports up to 8 players, flashlights, aim and weapon-swap animations. This is why we love the modding community! If you have a Twitter account, follow us to stay in-touch with the latest StarCraft 2 news. Gotta run now, the zombies discovered our secret spot.

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Release StarCraft 2 – When Did It Come Out?

High Executor — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:37:46 +0000

From the makers of World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2 has arrived. This is a highly anticipated game by Blizzard Entertainment. The first StarCraft came out on March 31 of 1998. As of February of 2009, more than eleven million copies sold throughout the world. It has been classified as one of the best selling games for the PC. On March of 2009, a version was released for the Mac OS. Then, on June 13, 2000, a Nintendo 64 adaptation was released.

Through a series of different novels, the storyline has expanded. Currently, StarCraft comes in three expansion packs. So, when are they going to release StarCraft 2 and what are they going to bring to the sequel?

Unless you lived under a rock, you should already know that StarCraft 2 was released on July 27, 2010. The game is connected to Battle.net at all times, where your profile and achievements will be saved. Unlike the original, StarCraft 2 has superb 3D graphics. Who would have ever thought StarCraft 2 would come out in 3D? This is definitely a game that was worth the waiting.

Wings of Liberty will be putting a lot of focus specifically on the Terrans. The other two expansions, which includes “Heart of the Swarm” along with “Legacy of the Void” will be focused on the Protoss and respectively the Zerg.

StarCraft II takes place four years after the events that took place in the original. Don’t worry, you will not have to wave goodbye to the old characters. They have kept the old characters from the first StarCraft, however, they have also introduced some new characters, as well as locations.

The cut scenes you will be seeing have improved in quality. Some of the improvements include space terrain that is more detailed and scenery allocation that is more advanced. For example, when you look at the space platforms, in the background, you are going to see asteroids and planets. They have also improved the advertising signs, extensions and small cliffs for this release.

Units in StarCraft II have new abilities when compared to the original. These new abilities are encouraging interaction with the environment. You will be able to teleport for example, but it will only be short distances, which is still great. By using the Warp Gate, you can warp some of the Protoss units to the pylon powered areas. StarCraft II will bring specific units which will only be playable when you go for the Campaign.

Many gamers have been waiting years for this game. Since StarCraft 2 has been released, do you believe this is going to cause the newer generation of gamers (the ones that do not know much about StarCraft) to get into it? We think so.

One thing is for sure and that is the fact that many players have stepped out of the closet and dusted off their gaming hands, because of the release StarCraft 2 which is, according to Blizzard, the “fastest-selling strategy game of all time.” Over the course of the first two days, more than 1.5 million copies of StarCraft 2 release were sold. “This one time, at boot camp…”

Finally, it’s here and we have already played it – you should give it a try too. Even if you have never played the StarCraft, you may like this one. “Who wants some?!”

Starcraft 2 Rumors: Campaign Overview

High Executor — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:22:24 +0000

Starcraft 2 managed to remain true to its roots while still bringing new interesting units to the table, well integrated story and superb graphics. While the lack of LAN support is no longer a rumor, the game makes use of Battle.net quite well and in our opinion this is a great anti-piracy method. Should you follow the Starcraft 2 Rumors, you will shortly find out that, not surprisingly, StarCraft II is what you always wanted from a real-time strategy game as the macho campaign, the good humor and the deep character voices will surely provide a meaningful and unforgettable experience for ya.

Starcraft 2 Rumors: Campaign Overview

The first chapter reminded us a little of Halo (FPS): you’re searching for artifacts while dealing with religious zealots and the “flood” (we mean, the Zerg). Nevertheless, the story integrates flawlessly with the game play and you get an actually feeling of making a difference. There’s great variety within the game and the campaign itself offers good replayability. Starcraft II is a fun, well-balanced game, definitely a must play.

Starcraft 2 Rumors: How to Unlock the Secret Mission
(Spoilers warning!)

Starcraft 2 Rumors: God Mode Cheat
Enter terribleterribledamage to make your units invincible. Beware! Achievements will be disabled when entering any cheat in StarCraft II.

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Starcraft 2: How to Activate Antialiasing on Geforce

High Executor — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:59:41 +0000

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.

Just like in the Beta, Starcraft 2 has no option to enable Antialiasing, but fortunately NVidia allows us to force it from its Control Panel. How do you do this?

Right-click on your desktop, choose “NVIDIA Control Panel” from the list, select “Manage 3D setting” and then click “Antialiasing – Mode” from the options to the right. Now chose “Override any application setting” from the drop down list and force your favorite Antialiasing level to 2x (up to 16x), in “Antialiasing – Setting”.

This is by far the only way you can activate Antialiasing in StarCraft 2. Now, when you play Starcaft 2, you’ll get smooth edges on vegetation or fences. Have fun!

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StarCraft 2 Release: Midnight Launch

High Executor — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:16:31 +0000

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

Germany, Berlin:
When: July 26th, 22:30 with Rob McNaughton, Lead Technical Artist, StarCraft II
Where: “Media Markt”, Berlin-Mitte, Grunerstraße 20, 10179 Berlin

Brazil:
When: July 26th, 22:00 with Pausto de Martini from StarCraft II Cinematics
Where: “Saraiva”, Shopping Mall Morumbi, Av. Roque Petroni Jr, 1.089 – Morumbi São Paulo

Mexico:
When: July 26th, 20:00 with Salvador Arditti (Cinematics) & Santiago Baranda (Community Manager)
Where: “Game Rush”, Avenida Universidad # 697, Colonia del Valle, Ciudad de Mexico

Moscow:
When: July 26th, 20:00 with Tony Hsu, Game Producer, StarCraft II
Where: “Media Markt”, Moscow, 119334, Prospekt Vernadskogo 6, Trade Center “Capitoliy”

France, Paris:
When: July 26th, 19:30 with Dustin Browder, Game Director, StarCraft II
Where: “Fnac”, 74, av. des Champs-Elysées, 75008 Paris

Singapore:
When: 27.07.2010 10:00AM with Brian Kindregan, Lead Writer, StarCraft II
Where: “Funan DigitaLife” Mall, 109 North Bridge Road, Singapore, 179097

Sweden, Stockholm:
When: July 26th, 19:00 with Chris Sigaty, Production director, StarCraft II
Where: “Webhallen”, Sveavägen 39, 111 34 Stockholm

Romania:
Just kidding about this last part. He, he, he…

As a side note, if you can’t make it at Blizzard’s official StarCraft 2 midnight launch, it’s almost certain that you will be able to make it to one of more than 3,000 events that are being held at GameStop stores in the US.

StarCraft II will still go on sale at midnight, but beforehand people who wait to get their copy of the highly acclaimed RTS sequel can participate in costume contests, art contests and other events. GameStop will also give away prizes such as 250$ GameStop cards, the collector’s version of StarCraft II and a trip to BlizzCon 2010. One last “Hell, it’s about time!” then counting down the hours…

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StarCraft 2 Release: The Dominion Propaganda

High Executor — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:57:43 +0000

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 was announced more than three years ago and was in production even before that. Will the StarCraft 2 release secure RTS supremacy? We will live and see, two days from now…

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StarCraft 2 Ghosts of the Past – Pre-Launch Trailer

High Executor — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:16:32 +0000

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.

In the StarCraft 2 Ghosts of the Past video, click the play arrow, then pause, then click on 360 and change movie resolution to a higher one. You can also click the four arrows to watch the StarCraft 2 Ghosts of the Past movie in full screen.

Download StarCraft 2 Ghosts of The Past

KERRIGAN
This is Kerrigan. We’ve neutralized the Protoss, but there’s a wave of Zerg advancing on this position. We need immediate evac.

MENGSK
Belay that order. We’re moving out…

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Starcraft 2 Changes: Patch 16 “Secret” Changes

High Executor — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:56:58 +0000

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.

For Protoss:
- Stalkers can no longer Blink up ramps without previous vision; also, cannot blink across islands.
- Another change: upgrading a Warpgate into a Gateway takes 10 seconds up from 3.

General Changes:
- A worth mentioning change: various critters now wander the map.
- Attack cooldown info is now listed in the weapon/ability’s Tooltip.
- Xel’naga towers now show up on the Mini-Map as eyes.

These were the latest Starcraft 2 changes. Stay tuned for more!

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> $100 Million Invested in the Development of StarCraft II

High Executor — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:31:22 +0000

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.

Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime hopes that players of its MMORPG “World of Warcraft” will also find an interest in StarCraft II. He stated: “We’ve brought in a lot of new players in the beta testing who’ve been playing ‘World of Warcraft’ but have never tried Starcraft.” The good news is that, as long as you pay your WoW subscription, you can play StarCraft II for FREE. Just a reminder: the original StarCraft remains one of the most popular games ever made, with over 11 million copies sold. Long live Aiur!

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Top 10 StarCraft 2 Changes

High Executor — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:04:32 +0000

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.

On the Summer 2008 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, people found out that StarCraft II is intended to be released as a trilogy, beginning with “Wings of Liberty” (Terran campaign), followed by “Heart of the Swarm” (emphasizing on the Queen of Blades), and finally “Legacy of the Void”, dedicated to the awesome Protoss. On February 2010, StarCraft II initiated closed beta testing, along with beta keys selling on eBay for rates up to $400.

We are now days apart from the midnight release event for Starcraft II across Europe, in London, United kingdom, on July twenty six. “Reports of Zerg activity have been coming in from around the globe, and we need you to fend off the Swarm that’s set to arrive this summer with the launch of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty,” stated Blizzard.

Let’s have a look at Top 10 StarCraft 2 Changes, in comparison to the first StarCraft:

10) Individual units are difficult to identify as well as micro accurately, while in StarCraft units were easily identifiable.

9) StarCraft II has lots of units on-screen, with Colossus lighting getting in the path of units and surprising gamers.

8) The Twilight Archon is visually worthy of the Protoss, when compared to its predecessor.

7) The Protoss Phoenix really good alternative to the Scout; I certainly cherished its Overload ability.

6) The new siege tank may resemble a toy, dispersing its legs. Was it too inexact?

5) In StarCraft II, teleportation is not really gamer talent, it’s cheap unit skill (see Stalker).

4) Certain units in StarCraft II mimic ninjas and WarCraft rip-offs, especially the Marines and the “Crypt Fiends”.

3) LAN support will not be installed into StarCraft II; players need to authenticate with Battle.net so they can play.

2) StarCraft II buildings are blocky; in the initial StarCraft buildings are actually metallic and shiny.

1) StarCraft II really ought to reward those who exercise more to be a deserving successor of StarCraft. There’s too much automatization in the sequel, which could minimize the returns of extreme training. A handful of Koreans players will be very upset with this one, which happens to be first on our list.

In spite of so many modifications, in the end, you will glimpse at Starcraft 2 without having to feel unfulfilled, mainly because Blizzard never didn’t climb to fans’ expectations. Regardless, we are at this point very close to view the finished version of this long awaited video game. For Aiur!