Welcome to the debut edition of e-SportsCenter, a new weekly column bringing you the latest news, updates, and info about all things to do with e-sports…if I can stop watching the MLG Orlando streams for long enough to write, that is.
Starcraft Universe is holding an Open Developer Preview over the US and EU Battle.net from October 19th to October 30th while the developers are at BlizzCon. The preview takes place in the “Encephalon Grid,” a player-vs-player arena allowing players to start as level 30 with a full set of gear tailored towards PvP. The player’s
Starcraft Universe, the fan-made massive-multiplayer-online project, released its first full-length trailer today, featuring raid footage from the current build. The brand-new trailer will feature gameplay footage of the first “raid” in Starcraft Universe, and will be available here, on the project’s YouTube account, and on their brand-new site.
It’s been a little less than a year since Blizzard released StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and, since then, they have been hard at work on the follow up expansion, Heart of the Swarm. And while there hasn’t been any news about a potential release date, Blizzard has seen fit to unveil a first look
If you are a hardcore or semi-hardcore (Where is the line?) player of Starcraft then you might know the name of Day[9]. Day[9] was introduced to me as a dynamic commentator of StarCraft mixing equal parts comedy and strategic insight. If there was a nerd that I wanted to be my CO it might be
Blizzard is always looking for new and innovative ways to get their games out there (if you can hold out for years on end, that is). Now the mostly computer-based developer has now announced they are taking Starcraft 2 beyond the PC/Mac realm and moving to…the X-Box Kinect! Check out the trailer!
Earlier this month, French gaming website GameBlog.fr reported that a Blizzard theme park would be built in Wunjin district, China. Called Joyland, the park was supposedly themed around Blizzard’s two most popular games: World of Warcraft and StarCraft. But, thinking it was too good to be true, many discounted this report as nothing more than
The media “dust” has finally settled for RyanWin and his project, Starcraft Universe (previously known as World of Starcraft). The whole story ended happily and Ryan is back to work on the project with a full team by his side. Recently, Ryan has announced the abilities for the Ghost character class. So far, this seems to be
After a long hiatus it’s once again time to don our Pontification Hats, dear readers! For those of you just joining us, when the stars are right we take a look at a fairly ubiquitous gaming trope (a narrative or mechanical storytelling device used with enough frequency to form a recognizable pattern) and discuss how