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Heart Of The Swarm Is Full Of Easter Eggs And Video Game References
Like all Blizzard games, the recently released StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is swarming with easter aggs and pop culture references. Here are some of the best ones we’ve found so far.
Heart Of The Swarm Intro Remake Has The Cuddliest Zerg Ever
After crafting a whole season of short, funny StarCraft cartoons, CarBotAnimations presents a spectacular special episode, remaking the entire cinematic intro of Heart of the Swarm.
Heart Of The Swarm’s Official Boy Band Music Video Isn’t Half-Bad
In the StarCraft community, making parody music videos has always been a big thing — just look at Temp0 or New Zealand-based Viva La Dirt League — the closest thing to a StarCraft boy band we’ll ever get — whose latest video is a really well-made parody of The Wanted’s “Chasing the Sun”.
The Visual Evolution Of Sci-Fi Real-Time Strategy Games
StarCraft II‘s expansion pack, Heart of the Swarm, is already out in some parts of the world, and it’s launching tomorrow in North America. To celebrate, let’s take the opportunity to examine more than 20 years’ worth of real-time strategy history and see how much the genre has evolved visually. Since the StarCraft games are set in Earth’s 25th century, we’re focusing only on RTS games in sci-fi settings.
Social Word Game For iOS From Real-Time Strategy Masters At Petroglyph
Founded in 2003 by the last remaining members of Westwood Studios — fathers of the modern-day real-time strategy game — Petroglyph Games has spent the past decade continuing to build on that proud RTS tradition. Now the developer has taken an unexpected turn towards mobile social games, to Coin a Phrase.
This Is The Ultimate Custom Arcade Fight Stick… For StarCraft II
Fighting game fans go great lengths to create their own custom arcade controllers, personalised weapons carved from raw passion to wage a war against all comers. What if the same ingenuity and passion were applied to a non-fighting game like StarCraft II? I think it would go a little something like this.
Little Empire Is A Massively Multiplayer Backstabbing Simulator
Camel Games’ high-polished “massively multiplayer online” empire building game Little Empires neatly demonstrates why we should never open ourselves up to the inevitable pain that friendship brings. Pretty heavy for a game with cartoon elves, right?
End Of Nations Won’t Release Until 2012
Water, Water Everywhere, So Let’s Go Fight A War
If you’ve ever wanted to play a video game based on Kevin Costner’s Waterworld, only without Kevin Costner being anywhere near it, you should check out upcoming strategy title Oil Rush.
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