http://www.starcrafttwo.com The Latest Starcraft 2 News @ StarcraftTwo.com Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:05:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chat with Devs: Since the Worldwide Invitational in Paris, the topic of the new Vespene Gas mechanic has come up a lot across many different fansites and message boards. Thus far, this is one of the biggest changes which will affect the macro management of bases in StarCraft II. To ... http://www.starcrafttwo.com/starcraft-2-news/starcraft-2-qa-batch-41/ TheCutScene (Variety) has word that Mike Morhaime and the Blizzard Team have acquired a renewed 5-years contract with the ActivisionBlizzard merger. Read the full article. CEO Bobby Kotick confirmed for me that the top folks at Blizzard have all signed new five year deals. "We realized it would be impossible to ... http://www.starcrafttwo.com/starcraft-2-news/blizzard-execs-secure-5-year-contract-deal/ World's Most Profitable Pure-Play Online and Console Game Publisher Cash Tender Offer for Up to 146.5 Million of Activision Blizzard Shares at $27.50 Per Share to Commence Within Five Business Days Vivendi Owns 52% on a Fully Diluted Basis/54% of Outstanding Shares of Activision Blizzard PARIS & SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ... http://www.starcrafttwo.com/starcraft-2-news/activisionblizzard-merger-complete/ Aaron Rosenberg and Keith R.A. DeCandido will be at the Shore Leave 30 Convention through July 11-13, 2008. Shore Leave is a Fan Run Sci-Fi Convention. Both novel writers are known for their Star Trek, World of Warcraft and Starcraft novels among other sci-fi and fantasy franchises. Make sure ... http://www.starcrafttwo.com/starcraft-2-news/2008-leave-shore-aaron-rosenberg-keith-ra-decandido/ SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced that, at a special meeting of stockholders held earlier today, it received the stockholder approval necessary to consummate the company’s ... http://www.starcrafttwo.com/starcraft-2-news/activision-stockholders-approve-combination-with-vivendi-games/ Dustin Browder (Cavez) revealed a few more details about the Zerg Changeling at the Battle.net forums recently. This Overseer ability will be fun for some Zerg players, and keep rival players on their toes and into paranoid mode every now and then. If this Changeling is new to you ... http://www.starcrafttwo.com/starcraft-2-news/starcraft-ii-dustin-browder-talks-about-zerg-changeling/ Battle.net reports that StarCraft: Brood War and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne are coming to the 2008 Digital Games worldwide tournament as part of the real-time strategy (RTS) category. Digital Games is a worldwide online tournament featuring competition in thirteen titles, with the best players receiving permanent online medals. Participants can ... http://www.starcrafttwo.com/starcraft-2-news/starcraft-and-warcraft-iii-competition-at-digital-games/ There are many videos of the Blizzard Worldwide Invitationals around the fansites, so I will gather a few links for you to check out. I will be adding them soon to a static link on the left menu for you to get back at any time later on. THE ESCAPIST MAGAZINE ... http://www.starcrafttwo.com/starcraft-2-news/wwi-2008-starcraft-ii-fansites-coverage/ Zeratul has been added to the Bios section at the official Starcraft 2 website Zeratul is a dark templar, a renowned psionic warrior and assassin whose forbears were exiled from the protoss homeworld of Aiur over a thousand years ago. The dark templar refused to submerge themselves in the communal protoss ... http://www.starcrafttwo.com/starcraft-2-news/starcraft-ii-zeratul-bios/ There is a protoss unit -- I think it is the dark templar mechanical unit -- that creates forcefields.  These forcefields can be used in various strategical situations such as creating a chokepoint where zerglings will be divided -- those in the back won't be able to do any damage ... http://www.starcrafttwo.com/starcraft-2-news/wwi-starcraft-2-game-design-panel/