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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.
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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…
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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?
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How A Wish And A Nine-Year-Old Led To A Great Game
Tanks and Hovercrafts rage against the evil purple Flamions. Shots are fired on both sides as the player attempts to subdue the oncoming hoard of enemies. Sounds like a fun game, if not a little common in it’s setting. But Allied Star Police, and how it came into being, is anything but typical.