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We are sure you know, Blizzard has Starcraft 2 27/07/2010 "Wings of Liberty released on.

Publication is the game for Windows and Mac. About console versions we are unfortunately not yet - because Blizzard last year intensive Gespäche with Microsoft has led in, however, [1] and Starcraft 2 perfectly Xbox 360 playable would be on is a subsequent release similar to the Playstation version of Diablo is not excluded.

Starcraft II multiplayer only on Battle.net / Online compulsory when installing

To install Starcraft 2 you have to connect to Battle.net to you, even if you want to play the game offline only. Your CD key is so firmly tied to the account. If someone really do not have Internet access, it must at least briefly with his PC to the network.

Initially there was some excitement about the lack of LAN play, the Blizzard of protection against piracy, has removed perhaps. For smaller Lan-parties, this is still is not a significant problem, because an ordinary DSL16k line provides enough power for the relatively small number of transmitted data.

Next point of criticism was the "RealID" (Real name in user profiles), for the Blizzard Battle.net Accounts wanted to introduce. This issue now seems to be off the table for the time being, according to the user (as reported) uA Community Manager Bashiok the potential for abuse of this feature demonstrates.

The Fortzungen of Wings of Liberty are:

• Starcraft 2 - Heart of the Swarm and
• Starcraft 2 - Legacy of the Void

These are (expected year on year), the remaining races closer to light. Whether, however, Blizzard's new add-on policy may be seen. However, the offered content to single player missions for your money is perfectly okay.

Blizzard has invented the somewhat dusty genre of real-time strategy StarCraft II certainly not new, but it still looks as though it were on the prior period.

The graphics are sufficient for an RTS and quite pretty to look at. Compared to the rather low hardware requirements (see end of article) they can be described as very attractive, even if it requires for the full game also benefit from a powerful computer.

Some users still reported from some teething problems with older generation graphics chips. Blizzard will be the next few weeks to patch. Even on newer Nvidia integrated graphics solutions like ION is Starcraft 2 playable at a very low level of detail.

Frame rate limit:

Unnecessary overloading of the graphics card can be prevented in which one limited by a small change in the Config frame rates.

Opens to the variables.txt and adds at the end the following lines:

frameratecapglue = 30
frameratecap = 60

Level Editor

As in the first Part you can get your maps with a level editor tinkering itself.

Conclusion:

Blizzard delivers a truly successful game. For nearly 50 €, it is certainly worth its price, as it probably will be announced as his predecessor for years. Starcraft 2 should be a compulsory purchase order, even if you have not played the predecessor possibly.

Now a say in the forum!

The online press evaluates positive:

• Buffed 92/100
• IGN 9.0/10
• GameSpot 9.5/10
• ...

(Cinematic)

Caution spoilers!

Here is a short gameplay video of the first Mission

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Starcraft 2 Hardware requirements

• Minimum:
  • PC: Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7 (Latest Service Packs) with DirectX 9.0c
  • 2.6 GHz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
  • 128MB PCIe NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT or ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card or better
  • Mac: Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.2 or newer
  • Notebook NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT or ATI Radeon X1600 or better
  • PC / Mac: 12GB HD space available
  • Ram:
  • 1 GB RAM Windows XP, 1.5 GB Windows Vista / Windows 7, 2 GB Mac
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • Broadband Internet connection
  • 1024X720 minimum display resolution

• Recommended Specifications:
  • PC: Windows Vista / Windows 7
  • 2.4Ghz Dual Core Processor
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX or ATI Radeon HD 3870 or better
  • Mac: Intel Core 2 Duo processor
  • 4 GB of system RAM
  • NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT or ATI Radeon HD 4670 or better
  • Full-HD / Ultra requirements
• Requirements Full-HD / Ultra:
• Quad-core or fast dual-core CPU (eg E8400 or better)
• HD 5850 / GTX285
• 2-4 GB of RAM (depending on your operating system and number of units)

Blizzard announced recently that they must in future give his first name & last name in plain sight in the new Battle.net account. To this end, also decided Diablo community manager Bashiok write his name in the forum.

"Micah Whipple at your service."

They forgot he had probably how fast the community to their personal information including address, telephone number and details would come to family members. Some sites have the info now removed, but this then distribute the net.

Until now it was in the Battle.net forum strictly forbidden to publish personal details of users in any way. Now Blizzard breaks the self-imposed rule and would become the social network. Concern it is that information about children can be published here. Although there are some features for parents to prevent this - but what parents are interested in already for the games of their little ones?

initially affected only the games of "Battle.net 2.0" (WoW, Starcraft II and Diablo III) - whether the older games are integrated, is not yet known.

What do you think of Blizzard's plans?

On 3.6. starts at 4 clock (CET) of the first early ticket sales for BlizzCon 2010th

Proud for $ 150 you can secure one of the coveted tickets to you. The Blizzcon 2010 of 22 - 23 10th again take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. Besides Diablo 3 is of course a lot of Starcraft 2 and get the new WoW Addon Cataclysm.

The second Sales promotion will run on 5.6. to a reasonable amount of time (19:00 h). If you want to but really take the long journey here, which will probably also make sure the alarm clock.

See you in California

Frank Pearce (Executive Vice President of Product Development) in an interview.

Topics:

• WoW Addon (Cataclysm)
• Starcraft II

Blizzard had originally a pure LAN mode for Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 excluded. Now relativized Battle.net developer Greg Canessa, the statement represented a network mode in Vista, which requires only a short key control on Battle.net.

"We are working on solutions with regard to things we can do to maintain connectivity to Battle.net in some way, but then provide a great quality connection between players"

This may therefore in future LAN parties are hoping for Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3, because they do not have to send the entire traffic on the relatively low bandwidth of the Internet connection.

Of course, both games will continue to have a single player mode.

Source: Shack News

Blizzard was just announced that Diablo 3 a "Beta" on the Gamescom in Cologne will be playable. We reported already about Blizzard's extra-large booth, ideal for the presentation is.

Here's the official press release:

Blizzard Entertainment on the gamescom 2009

We are pleased to announce to you that both StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and Diablo III will be playable in the gamescom 2009th Visitors to the stand of Blizzard Entertainment in Hall 6, B21 & B31 on our computers can even experience the feel of both games - Diablo III for this is the first time in Europe.

Our stand is from Thursday, 20 August, to Sunday, 23 August accessible to the public. You can find out what has to offer gamescom their best and we got there, looks just once over the website of the gamescom.

Source: Blizzard

The microblogging system Twitter is the latest 'election' in Iran since known worldwide.

Blizzard Entertainment has now realized that you can distribute in this way very good news and advertising at the games. Sun ado three new channels were opened, likely to be filled with content to BlizzCon.

• @ Diablo
• @ Warcraft
• @ Starcraft

Natürich is our blog already represented some time with Twitter. We look forward to every follower

As you might have read with us, will be Starcraft 2 Battle.net hesitation by a few problems until the summer of 2010.

Mike Morhaime (Blizzard CEO) expressed on the subject as follows:

• The delay of Starcraft 2 will not affect the release date of Diablo 3
• 2010, two great games Blizzard released
• The names of the games would not confirm nor Mike (Why both, but where SC2 is already announced for 09/02?)

Michael Morhaime: While we have not announced the release dates of any of the titles, I will confirm that the move of Starcraft into 2010 does not affect the release schedules of any of our other games.

Michael Morhaime: I would just like to reiterate that we have not announced any release dates on any future titles. And so I will reiterate that the move of Starcraft into next year does not impact the schedule and so it would be correct to conclude that you could expect two releases of Blizzard next year but I would not make any conclusion on what those titles are going to be.

The summary of any content you find here .

Now may be speculated: If Blizzard at this point in time as far SCII pushes behind, would be more than enough time for a release of diablo third

Work on the new Battle.net delay development

At a conference with investors, the joint venture Publisher Activision / Blizzard the launch of Starcraft 2 delayed until 2010. Bobby Kotick (Activision / Blizzard CEO named) as a reason to delay the new version of Battle.net. The work should be finished until Q1/2010. Blizzard still expects a release in the first half of 2010th

As you all now know, Diablo 3 also uses the new Battle.net "2.0" and is also from these delays betroffen.Vor summer of 2010 so it will probably do with a release of diablo third

Furthermore, were A / B from a forecast of the revenues in 2009, which should be around 4 billion U.S. dollars.

The Battle.net forum are expressed News Blizzard Poster "Cydra" follows on the subject:

Today we announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will not be ready for release by the end of 2009. Over the past couple of weeks, it has become clear that it will take longer than expected to prepare the new Battle.net for the launch of the game. The upgraded Battle.net is an integral part of the StarCraft II experience and will be an essential part of all of our games moving forward. This extra development time will be critical to help us realize our vision for the service.

Our mission is to develop games that deliver an epic entertainment experience. As part of that commitment, we will always take as much time as needed To ensure that our games and services meet the expectations of our players and the standard for quality that we set for ourselves as developers. As we work to make Battle.net the premier online gaming destination, we'll continue to polish and refine so StarCraft II, and we look forward to delivering a real-time strategy worthy of gaming experience the series' legacy in the first half of 2010th

We will share more details about the beta, Battle.net, and StarCraft II's launch in the future. Keep an eye on the official website at http://www.starcraft2.com for updates, and as always, thank you for your continued enthusiasm and support for StarCraft II and all of Blizzard Entertainment's games.

BlizzCon Live Stream

All the BlizzCon bought a ticket for receiving a few hours ago an e-mail from Blizzard.

Visitors have the opportunity of 5 8 - 7 8 (18-18 clock) - very special pre-order merchandise item, which will be sold exclusively to trade visitors only.

Here are the e-mail that Blizzard has sent out:

Heading to BlizzCon 2009? Planning to purchase some souvenirs at the show? We wanted to send you one last reminder that for the first time ever, you'll be able to shop for items from the BlizzCon 2009 store BEFORE the event during our limited-time-only, online BlizzCon 48-Hour Sale! For a limited time beginning August 5 at 10:01 am Pacific time, BlizzCon 2009 ticket buyers will have the opportunity * to purchase select BlizzCon 2009 store merchandise online. Items purchased through this sale will be shipped directly to your home, to avoid Allowing You store Lines at the show and giving you more time to take in the panels, tournaments, and other events at BlizzCon 2009th

HERE'S HOW TO: participate

• Between 10:00 am Pacific Time on August 5 and 10:00 am on August 7, log in to the Blizzard Online Store ( http://www.blizzard.com/store ) using the Battle.net account you used to purchase your BlizzCon 2009 tickets.
• Click the special "BlizzCon Sale" button in the lower-right corner of your screen.
• Browse new items created especially for BlizzCon 2009 attendees, add them to your cart, and then proceed to check out.
• Items will be shipped directly to your home.
• Enjoy the show!

It's that simple! Enjoy, and we look forward to seeing you at BlizzCon 2009!

* Please note: Only the ORIGINAL TICKET PURCHASE will have access to BlizzCon 2009 merchandise online during this sale, and the Battle.net account used to purchase the tickets is required. If you received BlizzCon 2009 tickets through another attendee, you will need to coordinate with the original ticket purchaser to participate in this sale.