Early last year, pro gamer Linda Liao made waves when she joined Team Razer’s competitive gaming team. Lao isn’t only a pro gamer. Oh no, she’s much more. More »
LEGO Thor? Check. LEGO Siege Tank? Check. LEGO Terran Battlecruiser? Yup, we can now say check to that one too. More »
Two great flavours of geek culture collide in this custom map for Blizzard’s RTS super-success. Starrcaft player/modder Kenneth Tran’s built an homage to Episode V of George Lucas’s space fantasy films, substituting planet Braxis for the icy world of Hoth where The Empire Strikes Back took place. On The Dominion Strikes Back, the Rebel faction must hold out for 45 minutes while the opposing Dominion faction must crush the Rebels. Tran’s work doesn’t map one-to-one to Empire Strikes Back, but does a nice job of imagining what a siege would feel like if you were fighting alongside Luke and the resistance. More »
The first 30 seconds might be a little slow, but once the music starts you will happy you stuck around — even if I’m not sure what the music has to do with Christmas or Starcraft 2. More »
Researchers looking at cognitive science have long studied chess. But a story on Scientific American shows that chess’ days could soon be numbered, because a superior model is emerging: Blizzard’s StarCraft II. More »
American accents are everywhere in video games. Even when something is developed in Canada, or Britain, or Japan, the principal characters usually speak with one kind of American accent or another. More »
In this video sargonas7 turns a table-filling pile of Mega Blocks into StarCraft Battlecruiser in two minutes and 40 seconds. More »
During G-Star, Blizzard showed off impressive fan art at its booth’s community zone. The Grand Theft Auto inspired World of Warcraft Cataclysm art is cool and all, but check out those mini-figures. Wow! More »
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm will introduce a few new units to game’s tried and tested roster. Normally you’d have to wait for the actual game/expansion for this, but why wait when there are mods? More »
I thought I was the most hideous Queen of Blades in StarCraft history during my session with Blizzard DOTA at BlizCon 2011 last weekend. Last night Dwight from The Office proved me wrong. More »
