Karune shared details of the Reaper vs. Hellions’ effectiveness against enemy units and the differences between both units in certain combat scenarios.
Karune: The Hellion is faster than the Reaper side by side, but the cliff traversing talent often gets the Reaper to the place you want to go faster.
In raiding, it really depends. Hellions will [...]

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Not a StarCraft related news, but I love to do follow ups on Glynnis’ careers: both voice acting and book writing. She is the voice of Kerrigan the Queen of Blades in Starcraft II. On her role as a writer, Glynnis Talken-Campbell, under her book writer pseudonym Sarah McKerrigan, recently announced DANGER KISS (a medieval [...]

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Starcraft II Community Manager Karune seeks fan feedback concerning Zerg Creep. Read below the details surrounding the latest new changes for the Zerg, and post your feedback at the following Battle.net forum.
Discussion Topic: Zerg Creep
One of the distinct features of the Zerg is their fast movement, quick reactions and their large numbers. With the newest [...]

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MikeN from Blizzard Technical Support informed fans that Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War have been updated with patch 1.15.3 which fixes a few problems on Windows and Mac versions.
MikeN: We have just released a new patch for StarCraft! Just connect to Battle.net and the patch should automatically download. If you wish to download the standalone [...]

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Starcraft 2 Beta doesn’t seem to be on the radar yet. As of WWI 2008 in Paris, a third of the single-player had been done. Crispy Gamer got a four=pages interview with Bob Colayco and Frank Pearce discussing several topics about Starcraft 2 including voice chat. Blizzard is looking closely at some Steam features.
Crispy Gamer: [...]

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The Starcraft 2 terran unit Nomad has now been renamed to Vulkan and its graphics revamped. The Protoss Archon’s graphics have also been updated. This reminds everyone nothing remains the same throughout development, and even through beta things may still change drastically. The same held true in the original Starcraft game where units were added [...]

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Chat with Devs: Something I noticed during our recent shows at Games Convention in Leipzig and PAX in Seattle is that many new players trying out the game who played Zerg built several creep tumors, thinking they were either defenses or going to morph into defenses. This eventually lead into a conversation with Dustin about [...]

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We are now accepting entries for our BlizzCon online contests, including our Diorama, Motivational Poster, and Movie contests. Whether you have tickets to BlizzCon or not, your application is welcome. Simply fill out the Submission form and be prepared to demonstrate your creative talents! For more contest information visit our BlizzCon Contests page.
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Blizzard Entertainment® Soundtracks Now On iTunes
IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that a wide selection of music from its popular games has been added to the iTunes store. Much of this music was originally available only in collector’s editions of the games, or at special events such as the company’s BlizzCon® gaming convention. [...]

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Ars Technica previews Starcraft 2 after their hands-on experience at PAX 2008 this past week. Nothing new, except they loved to play the game, and didn’t find any difference between the original Starcraft and the new sequel. The new units feel natural and fit in with the other units in the Starcraft universe.

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