Well looks like blizzard is going to announce something big in the days to come. A splash screen has been added to the blizzard.com and the battle.net sites. Is it a Diablo 3 announcement? A Starcraft 2 update for a release date (many speculations around for a December 3rd release, but this has been denied by Blizzard) or is it something else related to WoW?

So what do you guys think it might be?

UPDATE : Looks like the splash screen has changed… Keep on reading »

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Blizzard has officially announced today the first planet bio for the upcoming Starcraft II game.

The planet, to our surprise, is a Zerg planet and it’s full bio can be found in our Zerg section.

They also released two new pieces of artwork and one new screenshot.

Enjoy!

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With StarCraft II advancing like a swarm of zerglings, J!NX has launched a new wave of StarCraft-themed gear. Show your support for your favorite race — or keep your options open and support all three.

While you are there, check out other cool stuff like the World of Warcraft gear or other cool geek/gamer related stuff!

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This week we have launched the 3rd episode of BlizzCast, featuring an interview with the Lead Designer of StarCraft II about the Evolution of the Zerg from the original StarCraft to StarCraft II.

Also, I’ve been curious - would you guys prefer having these Q&A Batches (multiple answered and added into a consolidated release) or would you rather these 4-7 questions be spread out across the forums in pertinent threads on battle.net? I have been doing a bit of both, but would love to get your feedback on it, to make it easiest for you to follow up on the latest updates in regards to the development of StarCraft II.

—StarCraft II Q&A Batch 40—

1. By the current look of the game with spectacular death animations you could worry that you can get slightly distracted by dead units while playing. You could for example waste precious APMs (Actions per minute) trying to click on a spliced Space Marine that you thought was still alive. The wrecks of some larger units or deaths for some others could block your sight in-game too. Could this fear be a real issue and will there be the option to toggle down these model details in the settings? (gamereplays.org)

Yes, this is an issue we are looking into. For multiplayer, we want to make absolutely sure that players can clearly see visually what is happening on the battlefield. Currently, we are looking to have Keep on reading »

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Episode 3 of BlizzCast is now available on Blizzard’s website.

For those of you that are not familiar with BlizzCast, it’s a PodCast realted to everything Blizzard. This is the third PodCast and a lot of info about StarCraft 2 is included in this edition.

Here are direct links to each episode for those that did not catch the 2 other PodCasts, you will find a full transcript of each episode, a direct dowload link for the MP3 file and an online player so you can listen to the PodCast directly in your browser…

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3

Now back to the latest episode, the first interview is with Dustin Browder (Lead Designer on StarCraft II), titled Zerg Evolution – StarCraft to StarCraft II and runs for about 14 minutes. Dustin talks about Keep on reading »

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