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CR6
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Posted - 05/19/2007 :  09:38:53 AM  Show Profile  Visit CR6's Homepage  Reply with Quote
After almost 10 years, StarCraft II has been announced by Blizzard today at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Seoul, South Korea. It will take advantage of all that Blizzard has learned in the last decade with the WarCraft series: exemplary gameplay, finely-tuned balancing, built from the ground-up to support competitions, better matching over Battle.net, and all done in glorious 3D!

Check out this thread in our forums for more info about this highly-anticipated sequel!

CR6
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Posted - 06/07/2007 :  01:09:49 AM  Show Profile  Visit CR6's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Good interview here with Rob Pardo at MSNBC about the state of SC2:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18925251/

Good video from the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Seoul
http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/vids_1.html

Good video of S. Korean StarCraft 1 pro gaming
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/27/starcraft-pro-gamers-a-lesson-in-culture-ownage/
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CR6
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Posted - 06/19/2007 :  04:09:15 AM  Show Profile  Visit CR6's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Amazing that an almost 10 year-old game has made it back onto the PC top 10 list after the SC2 announcement:

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/797/797629p1.html
1) World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack - Vivendi $37
2) World Of Warcraft - Vivendi - $22
3) Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - Electronic Arts - $49
4) Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows Of Angmar - Midway - $51
5) The Sims 2 Seasons Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts - $29
6) Starcraft: Battle Chest - Vivendi - $19
7) The Sims 2 - Electronic Arts - $35
8) 3333 XP Games JC - Viva Media - $10
9) The Sims 2 Celebration Stuff Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts - $18
10) Warcraft III Battle Chest - Vivendi - $39

Also check out the official site for new info on the making of the teaser cinematic and new cinematics for SC2:
http://www.starcraft2.com/features/interviews/cinematicteaser.xml
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CR6
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Posted - 06/28/2007 :  9:33:30 PM  Show Profile  Visit CR6's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Blizzard is posting regular info on SC2 at their official website. Their PR dept really knows how to promote a game with a regular stream of info to fansites.

Here are a couple SC/Blizzard fansites I've found to be good about posting info promptly (unlike myself hehe ):
http://www.sclegacy.com/
http://www.blizzplanet.com/

And in case you missed the full-length SC: Ghost intro from awhile back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xqqnTVSl_0
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CR6
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Posted - 07/29/2007 :  10:11:19 PM  Show Profile  Visit CR6's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Great new info about the new Terran units and an exclusive 17+ min dev interview by 1Up.com
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3161564
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CR6
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Posted - 08/10/2007 :  10:34:16 AM  Show Profile  Visit CR6's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Well, I finally finished the original Starcraft single player campaign 10 years after the game came out. I've been mostly playing SC multiplayer, but I was inspired to play through the story after SC2 was announced in May. So for the last 2 months, I;ve been casually playing through the whole preview and SC campaign - now on to Brood War!

Any hoo, lots of great info from last weekend's BlizzCon. My fave vids (including SP preview, Terran preview, and Lore panel) were captured by GameSpot here:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starcraft2/media.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=tabs&tag=tabs;videos

Also good interview with Chris Sigaty, Starcraft II’s lead producer here:
http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200708/N07.0808.1400.43913.htm
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CR6
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Posted - 08/28/2007 :  12:16:21 AM  Show Profile  Visit CR6's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Very impressive live demo of SC2 by Blizzard RTS Community Manager Karune here:

http://www.sc2blog.com/2007/08/21/gen-con-starcraft-2-gameplay-video-narrated-by-karune/
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