Our latest coverage of Starcraft 2.
It’s been eight years since Starcraft 2 launched to the delight of RTS fans the world over. “Eight years of the most amazing esports moments,” says Blizzard Entertainment. To celebrate the occasion Blizzard will be giving away cake portraits to all players who play one game from now until July 30th. Newly completed base structures will also proudly fly anniversary [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment announced today at Blizzcon that Starcraft 2 will go free to play on November 14th, 2017. The new free to play version will include the entire Wings of Liberty story campaign, online ranked ladder play (with all current units/updates), and expanded access to co-op mode. Starcraft 2's arcade has been free to play for years now, but the [...]
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After this year's much anticipated spotlight release of Starcraft Remastered, Blizzard is looking to give Starcraft 2 a much-needed overhaul as well. According to Blizzard's recent news post, Starcraft 2 will be seeing some major design and balance changes, much of it focused on its current roster of underused abilities and units, as well as reducing the number of sudden [...]
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Soon after Google's DeepMind AI project beat the world's best Go players, the company announced a partnership with Activision Blizzard. Deepmind's target this time was the RTS Starcraft 2. That was back in November 2016. Fast forward to today and we're finally seeing the fruit of that partnership. Blizzard has just released a public API (application program interface) with an [...]
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Last September, Blizzard Entertainment announced that it would be retiring the Battle.net moniker and replacing it with generic "Blizzard" branding for all of its products. At the time, the company stated that its reason for doing so was that "there’s been occasional confusion and inefficiencies related to having two separate identities under which everything falls—Blizzard and Battle.net." It's a pretty [...]
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Do you regret naming yourself "xX_Reaper432_Xx" the moment Overwatch came out? Maybe you've decided that you like playing as McCree more or perhaps you've just run into one too many other Reapers and it's hard to tell when someone's talking to you. In the past, you would have been stuck with that name for all eternity, wondering why you ever [...]
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It's been five years since the StarCraft 2 online RPG total conversion mod StarCraft Universe first surfaced, but it has finally entered limited Open Beta. Players can now play through each of the game's three prologues and a limited version of "Beyond Koprulu." The full version of Beyond Koprulu will launch after a quick IndieGoGo campaign. The launch isn't dependent [...]
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