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| Future Starcraft Game titles? |
A Blizzard representative offered an unusual response to a player, which might open few speculations. However, he covered himself well. It is up to you to dismiss or spring up diverse opinions on the matter:
Blizzard Europe recently announced the following: "We are pleased to announce that our European Offices are now supporting all of our Legacy titles. This includes the Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft series. They will be able to provide support in English, French, German, and Spanish. If you wish to contact our European Support department."
To this Veta@USEast asked at the Official Starcraft Forums the following:
Veta: What series?! There's only one game. Books are not part of the series, only the Universes. So... I would kindly ask that it would say "the Diablo and WarCraft series and StarCraft."
DatH - a Blizzard Representative - replied: StarCraft and Brood War. StarCraft64 is unsupported by the Blizzard team but users will be able to talk about it there if they wanted to. Future game titles for the StarCraft Universe will be included there as well. I meant things like Ghost, if it gets resumed. Our internal support team has not downsized. We're still the same. We expanded to include Europe and other countries as part of Blizzard instead of relying on 3rd party support.
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Tuesday 13th 2006f June 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Glynnis opens a Poll with Kerrigan |
Glynnis Talken -- now under her Warner Bros. Publisher pseudonym: Sarah McKerrigan -- has a new poll on her website putting Starcraft and Diablo women she voiced over along with heroic women of real life, sci-fi and fantasy settings. Cast your Vote
If you were a kick-ass warrior woman, who would you be?
- Joan of Arc
- Xena
- The Rogue from Diablo
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Eowyn from Lord of the Rings
- Kerrigan from Starcraft
- Uma Thurman from Kill Bill
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Wednesday 31st 2006f May 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Project Revolution Public Q&A Soon |
On Wednesday, a group of staff members from many fansites met on IRC chat for a private Q&A with the developers of the long-awaited Project Revolution. For those who have been living under a rock for last three years, Project Revolution is a Starcraft-to-Warcraft III Total Conversion.
Of the old team very few remain, but fresh talent has joined to wield and carry-on forth the flag. And it has not been for naught for the end is nigh! A year ago, the team had reached a 50% of work done. Although no date of release was offered, it seems things are getting closer. Most of our private Q&A needs to remain secret for a couple of weeks, as agreed by all fansites present. The Q&A on last wednesday was to give a chance to fansites to throw in questions in advance for the avalanche of fans to join the upcoming public Q&A will be historical in the modding community.
It will be worth the wait for in a week or two we will announce the date of a Public Q&A with the Project Revolution developers. Note that they are fans working hard for the fans. They are not part of Blizzard Entertainment. The team is hosted by WC3Campaigns. Be alert of a definite date for the Q&A and start gathering questions.
Basically, they are creating Starcraft 3D Models of units, buildings, attack special effects, tilesets, doodads; and throwing them in into the Warcraft 3 engine for a awesome Starcraft 3D RTS experience. Even the interface will look like the Starcraft: Broodwar game. You need to be owner of Starcraft, Starcraft: Brood War, and Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos to play. One of my questions were related to this. The Project Revolution installer will ask for those game CDs to install necessary files. This reduces the file size of the Total Conversion and makes sure you have a legal copy of the game.
I invite you to visit and bookmark the Project Revolution website. It has gameplay screenshots and screenshots of Terran, Protoss and Zerg 3D model units and buildings as a sneak peek. Among the fansites that met in private chat are: Blizzplanet, Broodwar.de, SCLegacy, Gosugamers.net, PGTour.net, GGL, CAL and mYm.
As you see the private Q&A was taken serious by some of the top Starcraft and Warcraft fansites. Below are links to the sneak peek. Make sure to gather your questions in advance for the moderated Public Q&A. SCLegacy-rise will be moderating the upcoming Q&A. On another note, what made us think the Project Revolution is reaching its end of production is ... Project Revolution Team has announced their new Game Studios name: Snowflake Entertainment. Many of the guys are seriously considering game development as a career. Stay tuned and don't miss the Public Q&A. You will want to find out if the project will have Multiplayer on Battle.net or if you can create your own campaigns.
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Saturday 27th 2006f May 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft: Queen of Blades Pocketbook Released! |
The long awaited Starcraft: Queen of Blades Pocketbook is now available on sale. If you pre-ordered it, you should expect the mailman to knock your door or drop it on your mailbox. Anyone else can walk up to their favorite bookstore or order it online.
Make sure to read our interview with its book writer Aaron Rosenberg. The interview took place on February 18. Below you can find links to the interview and to the Book excerpt. We got the prologue. The book will feature Tassadar, Zeratul, Jim Raynor, Kerrigan and General Duke among others. (Digg it! -- digg.com)
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Friday 26th 2006f May 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Wow CMs start Starcraft quote madness |
This is not exactly news, but Rise from SCLegacy dared me to post it. After all day long of World of Warcraft players not able to log in to the game or to the official forums due to a long login account upgrade, Tseric posted a thread on the Wow Official forums to announce that login account was now operational.
However, he chose a distinctive way to announce it. The forum thread was simply "In the pipe", followed by his post text: "5 by 5". It is a easter egg from the movie Aliens used in Starcraft as a quote by the Dropship female pilot. Two more Community Managers or Forum Mods posted similar Starcraft quotes.
Coreiel posted "Reporting for duty!, while Drokthul answered "You call for an exterminator?
This caused a chain reaction of fans that automatically started login in to reply their greetings post with follow up Starcraft quotes. Check out the multiple pages worth of feedback.
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Wednesday 24th 2006f May 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft Board Game: Playtesting Sneak Peek |
Fantasy Flight Games is now playtesting the game mechanics of the upcoming Starcraft Board Game scheduled for Fall 2006. They offered a sneak peek of the playtesting between in-house players. Check out their conversation and opinion after playing the board game Here
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Friday 19th 2006f May 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Glynnis Talken: USS Highland Games at Pomona May 27-28 |
Glynnis Talken, Starcraft voice actress of Kerrigan, will be on Memorial Day weekend, May 27th and 28th, signing books at the USS Highland Games, held at the Pomona Fairplex in Pomona, California. Look out for her at the Tea & Sympathy Booth.
She will be showcasing her medieval romance book "LADY DANGER"(non-Blizzard related). Glynnis Talken is using the book writer-pseudonym of Sarah McKerrigan in this Warner Publishing book. Fans going to the USS Highland Games event, make sure to submit your photos of the event beside her to share them with the community. Last time I chatted with Glynnis online, she said she would love to sign any Blizzard material you bring to her.
When: May 27-28
USS Highland Games
Pomona Fairplex
1101 W. McKinley Ave * Pomona, CA.
Visit the official USS Highland Games Website
Download the PDF showing the Flyer with details of tickets, features of the festival and more.
Read Glynnis Talken's May Newsletter below . . .
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Tuesday 16th 2006f May 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft Trilogy Pocketbooks by Christie Golden |
Christie Golden -- popular Star Trek book writer and author of Warcraft: Lord of the Clans (2001) has halted her Star Trek book writing. She has committed to work on four projects for Blizzard Entertainment.
Christie Golden is writing a Trilogy set based on the Starcraft Universe, to be published by Simons and Schuster (Pocketbooks). She is currently writing World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde pocketbook. More details will become available on November. I contacted her and she agreed to an interview with us by November, where more details will surface. I interviewed her on May 2005 if you are interested.
Christie Golden was last weekend from April 21-23 at the Starfest 2006 in Denver, Colorado at the Marriott Denver Tech Center among the book signing party and offering a Q&A of her future projects. As you may remember from our previous interview with her, she told us she is a World of Warcraft addicted player.
You may pre-order the World of Warcraft book in our Store. The Starcraft Trilogy is not yet available anywhere and its name hasn't yet been revealed.
For your knowledge there are two new Starcraft Books:
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Tuesday 25th 2006f April 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Shinhan Hires Starcraft players for Day Trade |
This may look like a April's fool, but it is real. The Korea Times reports that Shinhan Securities, a local brokerage house, will hire Starcraft players to work as Day Traders, to make several aggressive online transactions a minute.
"The mastery of professional gamer?s hands and their familiarity with the Internet environment can be good qualities to become day traders,?? he added. He declined to disclose the players? identity, though."
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Friday 21st 2006f April 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft Board Game on Fall 2006 |
Fantasy Flight Games was at the GAMA Trade Show last month and revealed some images of their participation at the Las Vegas event. A screenshot of a booth-display served as teaser announcing the Starcraft Board Game release date on Fall 2006. You may pick Terran, Protoss or Zerg. Up to six players compete in this epic board game!
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Thursday 13th 2006f April 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| IGN: State of the RTS - Starcraft 2? |
IGN published an article titled The State of the RTS talking with Rob Pardo and other developer Studios about the future of RTS Games. Starcraft and Warcraft are slightly mentioned during the 7-pages article. However, the closure of the article hints that Blizzard and EA might bring something new to the RTS Genre, hinting a Starcraft ... sequel?
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Monday 10th 2006f April 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Glynnis launches Lady Danger under Sarah McKerrigan |
You may know that I do follow ups on the Blizzard book writers and voice actors I have interviewed in the past. Well, after almost a year of wait, Glynnis Talken - voice actress of Starcraft Kerrigan has announced the launch of her latest Romantic Medieval book Lady Danger. But this book is a tidbit more special than any of her past books ... this is the first book under Warner Publishing and under her new pseudonym ... Sarah McKerrigan. Yup, you heard right. Warner Publishing didn't want her previous pseudonym of Glynnis Campbell beause it was attached to her previous publisher, so she went ahead and chose the name of the favorite Starcraft character she voiced over.
Today, April 1 -- if you read this in time, Glynnis ... err, Sarah McKerrigan will be book signing at the Kern County Scottish Society Gathering and Games at Stramler Park in Bakersfield, California. You can find her at the Tea & Sympathy booth. Read her April Newsletter below:
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Saturday 01st 2006f April 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Aaron Rosenberg at I-Con in NY |
Aaron Rosenberg and Keith R.A. DeCandido will be book signing tomorrow Saturday, March 25th at 12pm EST at I-CON event to be held at Stony Brook University, Long Island New York. Aaron Rosenberg is a well known Star Trek and Warhammer Book writer. He is writting Starcraft: Queen of Blades to be on sale by May 2006. You can read our interview with Aaron Rosenberg here. Aaron will read outloud a chapter from his Warhammer: Day of the Daemon.
Keith R.A. DeCandido is a Star Trek writer and author of World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred and Starcraft Ghost: Nova.
The event also has a Gaming session with Games, RPG, Board Games and CCG Tournaments.
Check out the PDF of the I-CON 25 Event Schedule: [ PDF 1 ] [ PDF 2 ]
Check out the PDF of the I-CON 25 Gaming Schedule.
Within the Game sessions are Gaming Demos such as City of Heroes RPG: Unisystem, Savage Worlds, Pulp Cthulhu: Chaosium, Serenity RPG, D6 Space and Battlemech of the Republic, Borne into Darkness: Call of Cthulhu.
CCG Tournaments held are City of Heroes CCG, Magic: The Gathering Ravnica, Yu-Gi-Oh Advanced Format, Vs. System Golden Age and MTG type 2.
Directions and Hotel info Here
Other special guests to the I-Con event are ... brace yourself ...- George Takei (Star Trek Sulu)
- Kevin Sorbo (Andromeda/Hercules)
- Marc Singer (Beastmaster)
- Elvira
- Greg Pak (X-men Phoenix Endsong)
- Richard Hatch (Captain Apollo, Galactica)
- Jacob Carter (Selmak in Stargate SG1)
What is I-Con?
I-CON is a three day festival, designed to encourage literacy, creativity and interest in science and technology through science fiction and its related genres. Programming at I-CON spans a wide range of topics and interests, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic books, Japanese animation (otherwise known as Anime), medieval reenactment, science and technology.
Guest speakers are invited from around the world to share their experiences in their fields, information about any new or upcoming projects and their insights into the genre with their fans. Over the course of the convention, guests typically will participate in panel discussions, give workshops and demonstrations, sign autographs, and interact with their fans on a one on one basis in such venues as the Awards Banquet. With so much to offer, I-CON is able to appeal to a diverse audience, including college students, senior citizens and families with young children.
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Friday 24th 2006f March 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft Walk Of Game Star Unveiled to Public |
The Walk of Game 2006 Star for Starcraft was officially unveiled at Metreon. The Walk of Game 2006 inductees were honored at a press and industry-only event at Metreon on March 16, where this years stars were unveiled.
Check out the Official Walk on Game 2006 Video Reel showing Shane Dabiri and Bob Fitch unveiling the Starcraft Star on the floor.Both Blizzard Devs show up in the video as noted below:
Minute 00:00:07 (Bob Fitch and Shane Dabiri escorted to the front)
Minute 00:00:09 (Bob Fitch and Shane Dabiri take the Award)
Minute 00:00:24 (here Shane Dabiri unveils the Starcraft star)
Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari and creator of Pong), 2005 inductee for Lifetime Achievement headlined the event. The 2006 inductees joined the ranks of Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Halo and Link (The Legend of Zelda) and were opened to the public on Friday, March 17, in time for the Game Developers Conference (GDC), an annual gathering of the global game development community, and a Walk of Game partner for the second year.
New to Walk Of Game's attraction in 2006, gaming fans could also come and experience why these games are the voters' choice at the Walk of Game Station - 12 unique stations featuring inducted games.
Some reviews below:
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Saturday 18th 2006f March 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft: The Board Game |
Fantasy Flight Games has announced a new Starcraft Board Game. Following the success and popularity of the Warcraft and World of Warcraft board games, we are very pleased to announce the release of an epic board game based on Blizzard Entertainment?s classic Starcraft computer game. This will be one of our big box games, in the tradition of Twilight Imperium, Descent: Journeys in the Dark, and World of Warcraft: the Board Game. It features a large central game board depicting the Starcraft galaxy, as well as nine separate smaller boards that each represent a specific planet in the Starcraft universe. Players will control the familiar Terran, Protoss, or Zerg space and ground units in a bid for domination of these nine worlds. The combat system is fast and diceless, featuring an innovative mechanic that utilizes transparent plastic game cards. The game will feature dozens of beautifully sculpted plastic figures, dozens of cards, lots of high-quality cardboard tokens and markers, a large game board and several mini-boards, and all of the other great components that pack our epic-size games. Starcraft: The Board Game is scheduled for release in October.
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Thursday 16th 2006f March 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| SCLegacy: Pimpest Plays |
SCLegacy is showing the the Pimpest Plays: Greatest Moments in Starcraft 2005:
SCLegacy: "Sifting through the submitted replays and VoD's, StarCraft Legacy has searched the world for evidence of the wonderous. We are proud to present to you the next installment in the legendary series - Pimpest Plays: Greatest Moments in StarCraft 2005 Edition!
Our search for skill has brought us back to the core of the game - innovation. Add this with the soaring limits of human skill and reaction time, and you are struck by one word:
Pimp
We have posted the mind numbing greatness of each play in the form of an in-article VoD. Within a mere click you can view the great moment from each game. From the raw skill to the screaming crowd, it has been supplied!
We have also included an interview with the legendary D22-soso, who pioneered Pimpest Plays back in his pro-gaming days. Check it out at the end of the feature or in our interviews section.
2005 Pimpest Plays is the result of the community's hard work. Special thanks to Bill307 for taking the time to create video clips for the replays and to Carnac on behalf of broodwar.de for mirroring the included files. We would also like to thank everyone who contributed to reviewing, writing up and editing the reports for each of the plays. Scroll down to the bottom of the feature to read the rest of the credits.
You can view this year's snapshot of greatness, Pimpest Plays 2005, here:
http://www.sclegacy.com/features/pimpestplays_2005.php"
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Thursday 16th 2006f March 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Glynnis at LA Irish Fair & Music on March 11 |
Glynnis Talken's monthly newsletter for March is out. She is preparing for the April launch of her non-Blizzard Book Lady Danger -- a Medieval Romance novel. Her new book seudonym as I had announced many months ago is SARAH MCKERRIGAN -- homage to her role as voice actress of Sarah Kerrigan (Starcraft).
Glynnis will be at a Book Signing event at Los Angeles County Irish Fair and Music Festival, at the Pomona Fairplex on Saturday, March 11th. Look for her at the Tea & Sympathy booth. Map and Directions available on the link provided above (menu bar).
Below is the Newsletter. Make sure to join the Contest. The Prizes are:
- A MINIATURE BROADSWORD
- A LITTLE KNIGHT MUSIC"--ORIGINAL CD OF MEDIEVAL SONGS
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Tuesday 07th 2006f March 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft: Queen of Blades Q&A Transcript |
We spent two hours and forty minutes with Aaron Rosenberg today at WCRadio's IRC Chat to discuss the upcoming pocket book -- STARCRAFT: QUEEN OF BLADES. Additionally, he mentioned his work on World of Warcraft: Lands of Mystery where he wrote the story of the Nerubians in Northrend, and World of Warcraft: Alliance Players Guide, and although, he didn't write the following -- some indirect hints of possible Faceless Ones lore. He spilled most of the beans on what the fans should expect from this new Starcraft bestseller book. To make a story short, we will be witness of the hardships of Tassadar's training into the Dark Templar philosophy with help of Zeratul. We will explore Jim Raynor's guilt and interaction with the Protoss. And fathom the Overmind's plans for the Queen of Blades ... shh! Read the Transcript.
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Sunday 19th 2006f February 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| TODAY: Aaron Rosenberg Public Q&A |
Today is our Q&A with Aaron Rosenberg - author of STARCRAFT: QUEEN OF BLADES pocket book. Everyone is invited to participate. I invited some leaders of the Community, too. Yes, you will be able to submit your very own questions concerning the book's storyline. The book plot and Front Cover may be found here The IRC Server details are below:
Day: Saturday, February 18
Time: 4pm EST / 1pm PST (-5GMT)
Server: irc.wowirc.com
Channel: #wowradio
You have two options to join the Live Chat:
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Saturday 18th 2006f February 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Aaron Rosenberg Bios |
Aaron Rosenberg sent us a headshot photo of himself, his biography and biblography. This may help you guys have a wide scope of his previous work in Star Trek, Games Workshop?s Warhammer lines, Isengard: Lord of the Rings, Stargate SG-1, World of Warcraft RPG: Alliance Guide and Lands of Mystery, Realms of Norrath, Cthulhu RPG, D&D and hundreds of other books. I am astonished.
Take a look at his bios and bibliography in our Book Writers section.
If you are coming to our Q&A with Aaron Rosenberg on Feb 18, make sure to read it to bring questions about Starcraft: Queen of Blades and other works of his.
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Saturday 11th 2006f February 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft: Queen of Blades Details |
Aaron Rosenberg let me know today that the book novel is from Jim Raynor's point of view, and that it details the events that occur on Char, specifically the interactions between Raynor, Kerrigan, Tassadar, and Zeratul. However, look forward to reading what happened in the meeting between Tassadar and Zeratul. I am thrilled in a drool-seizure gesture. I want this book bad! Read the back cover summary, front cover image and details of our upcoming Public Q&A on IRC chat with Aaron Rosenberg Here so that you join us during his talk about the new Starcraft book on Saturday, February 18. Don't miss it!
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Thursday 09th 2006f February 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Exclusive: Starcraft: Queen of Blades Front Cover |
Aaron Rosenberg -- writer of STARCRAFT: QUEEN OF BLADES has sent us this morning an exclusive image of the Front Cover. And he has promised to contact his publisher Simons & Schuster(Pocket Books) to provide us with an Excerpt of the book. I am fairly glad and feel treated. Not even Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble have the front cover and excerpt yet. Anyway, drooling and modesty aside, here is the front cover for your visual delight.
Keep in mind, that the book release is on May 28 and Front cover could change at this point in production. Many thanks to Aaron Rosenberg, and stay tuned for an exclusive excerpt of the book -- which may serve as fuel for your questions on our Fansites Chat Q&A with Aaron Rosenberg.
Day: Saturday, February 18
Time: 4pm EST / 1pm PST
Server: irc.wowirc.com
Channel: #wowradio
"Former marshall-turned-rebel Jim Raynor has broken away from the power-crazed Emperor Arcturus Mengsk. Enraged over Mengsk's betrayal of the powerful telepath, Sarah Kerrigan, to the ravenous Zerg, Raynor has lost all faith in his fellow humanity.
Yet, in the aftermath of Mengsk's treachery, Raynor is plagued by strange visions of Char -- a deadly volcanic world haunted by horrifying alien creatures. As the nightmares grow in intensity, Raynor begins to suspect that they may not be figments of his imagination -- but a desperate form of telepathic contact. Convinced that the woman he loves is still alive, Raynor launches a mission to rescue Kerrigan from Char. But deep beneath the planet's smoldering surface, Raynor finds a strange chrysalis . . . and is forced to watch in horror. as a terrible, all-too-familiar entity arises from it.
Before him stands a creature of malice and vengeance . . . Sarah Kerrigan : The Zerg Queen of Blades."
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Monday 06th 2006f February 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Official Fansites Chat Date w/ Aaron Rosenberg |
The Official date for the Fansites Chat with Aaron Rosenberg -- book writer of the new STARCRAFT: QUEEN OF BLADES book will take place:
Day: Saturday, February 18
Time: 4pm EST / 1pm PST
Server: irc.wowirc.com
Channel: #wowradio
All Fansites and Gaming Networks are invited, and fans in general.
You can pre-order the book Here
Recent interview with Keith R.A. DeCandido concerning Starcraft Ghost: Nova and World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred pocket books in English, Spanish and French.
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Monday 06th 2006f February 2006 |
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