A few days ago, Techland wrote about how Blizzard Entertainment asked YouTube to take down a video of a player-made Starcraft II MMO called World of Starcraft. Even though the MMO was made using Starcraft II’s Galaxy Editor, an Blizzard Entertainment approved map creator that the company has encouraged users to toy around with in the …
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“Starcraft II” Modders Use Editor To Create MMO, Activison-Blizzard Not Pleased
If you’re going to give users the Starcraft II Galaxy Editor, a map creating tool that Activision-Blizzard encouraged players to toy around with, then why threaten creators with copyright infringement when someone actually programs something interesting?
Rock, Paper, Shotgun managed to make a really cool mod that turned the game into …
Activision EVP: California Video Game Legislation Unnecessary (and Unconstitutional)
Executive vice president and chief public policy officer of Activision Blizzard Incorporated George Rose is making it known that he’s not pleased with the new Californian legislation that may make selling violent video games to minors a criminal offense. In an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle, Rose said that not only was the …
Blizzard’s New Diablo III Trailer: The Feisty Demon Hunter
Demons beware, the demon hunter is here.
The latest and greatest trailer for Blizzard’s much-anticipated Diablo III was just released featuring a new class: the Demon Hunter.
In the cinematic trailer/gameplay demo she dual-wields crossbows while slaying an endless horde of undead zombies and abominations.
That’s right, I said …
Blizzard: We’d Love James Cameron to Direct Starcraft, Too
MTV Multiplayer‘s posted a nerdgasm-inducing bit of info that could bring two awesome sci-fi visions together, if we all wish hard enough. In an interview with MTV’s Russ Frushtick, Rob Pardo–Blizzard’s Executive Vice President of Game Design–offered up the following observation about moving their game franchises onto the silver …
Zerg Rush: Win a Copy of Starcraft II
Today marks the end of nearly a decade of waiting, as Blizzard finally releases the long-brewing Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty.
Now, thousands (hell, probably millions) of people have pre-ordered and pre-installed Heaven’s Own RTS already. We know that. But, in case you’re one of the fans who hasn’t…
You can have mine.
That’s …
Blizzard Reflects on Five Years of World of Warcraft
On November 23, 2004, Blizzard Entertainment launched what would become one of the most successful games in video game history — World of Warcraft. Two expansions, 11.5 million global subscribers and an Emmy-winning South Park parody later, the massively multiplayer online fantasy game is still going strong.
Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan, …
Blizzard: ‘Who Knows’ When Diablo III Will Ship
If you were hoping to see Blizzard’s action-RPG Diablo III anytime soon, don’t hold your breath.
Last week, we learned that the game was put into the ‘in the next few years’ category, along with Starcraft II expansions and the World of Warcraft maker’s unnamed new massively multiplayer online game.
The news is crushing to Diablo …