Blizzard’s company HQ has an enormous Warcraft statue out front. It’s incredible. Making it officially a “thing”, Blizzard’s offices in Versailles, France now have one too. Only it’s from StarCraft.
StarCraft was released in 1998. By 2010, three years after it had first been revealed, StarCraft II still wasn’t out. If you thought it was understandable that fans were wondering if it was ever actually going to come out, it’s pretty funny seeing even Activision’s top executives thinking the same thing.
Say your StarCraft II match ends prematurely, either by crash or lightning strike or murder or whatever. Right now, your only option is to suck it up and start a new game. But when Blizzard releases the expansion pack Heart of the Swarm, you’ll be able to recover a crashed match by loading up the replay and jumping back in.
In an update on the game’s official site, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm developers Blizzard have outlined some changes that have been made to the sequel/expansion during the process of testing.
The real-time strategy game’s official multiplayer mode is now up to season seven, Blizzard announced today. Rankings will be reset once again. So now’s your chance to prove to the world that you deserve better than Bronze. [Blizzard]
Men and women have been going to bars to watch sports since the beginning of TV time. But e-sports? Aren’t we supposed to be couped up in bedrooms, two feet from monitors watching crappy streams? No, says Barcraft! We watch Starcraft in bars, the way sport is supposed to be watched. We drink and be merry!
I know! I couldn’t believe it myself. Most mainstream coverage of e-sports tends to be negative, or done from that patronising ‘you thought e-sports was completely meaningless, but it’s actually a pretty big deal’ angle. So to see Reuters actually do a good job of covering e-sports in a positive, fair light is quite encouraging.
LEGO Thor? Check. LEGO Siege Tank? Check. LEGO Terran Battlecruiser? Yup, we can now say check to that one too.
