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| Starcraft Content & Upcoming Public Q&A |
I know . . . I know. It looks like there is not much activity on Blizzplanet this weekend. Worry not. Things done Saturday:
And finally ... thanks to Keith R.A. DeCandido, who provided me the contact info, today we secured an upcoming Public Q&A on IRC chat with his colleague writer Aaron Rosenberg -- where fans will be able to make questions about his current project STARCRAFT: QUEEN OF BLADES -- due to be on sale by May 2006.
Aaron Rosenberg is willing to do a Q&A.
Day: Saturday, February 18
Time: 4pm EST / 1pm PST
Server: irc.wowirc.com
Channel: #Wowirc
Webmasters, Admins and Staff from local and international Starcraft Fansites, non-Starcraft Fansites, Gaming Networks and Starcraft Tournament Organizations and Fans are welcome to this Fansites Q&A.
We are doing this Q&A on Wowirc Server, hopping around in the community to bring you interviews of interest and entertainment.
Special thanks to SCLegacy, Starcraft.org, GosuGamers.net, PGTour, PCGames.de, Broodwar.de, Rp-Pvp.com, Gamershell, WowVault (IGN), and Judgehype for supporting our previous Q&A with Keith R.A. DeCandido and for helping to spread the news.
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Sunday 05th 2006f February 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| StarCraft the movie |
Although this is an old post from January, it deserves a mention. EvanC -- Blizzard Poster -- replied a thread titled Starcraft the Movie:
EvanC: "Officially
We are very interested in taking our worlds and characters into other realms of entertainment, but as with any of our projects, we seek to work with the best talent available. While we would love to bring StarCraft, Warcraft and Diablo to the screen, we will do so only when we find the right partners.
Un-Officially
What kind of a story outline would you have a movie portray; the story line of SC and BW or a new story?"
A fan suggested creating a movie based on STARCRAFT: LIBERTY'S CRUSADE.
Another Blizzard Poster, NickJS, commented on a thread titled World of Starcraft.
NickJS: "The topic of "World of StarCraft" is often brought up. I would like to see something similiar to PlanetSide which I had a lot of fun playing during the beta."
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Saturday 04th 2006f February 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Worldwide Invitational Begins at Seoul |
The Blizzard Worldwide Invitational is about to kick off at the COEX Convention Center in Seoul, Korea. The coming three days will feature hands-on demonstrations of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade and StarCraft: Ghost. The finals of the Battle.net Ladder Season Three tournament and an invitational tournament featuring some of the world's best players will begin later in the afternoon. For more information, bios of the competitors, brackets, and tournament formats please visit the Worldwide Invitational tournament webpage here.
Inside The Game will be covering the event live, including the opening ceremony which takes place at 12:30pm KST. The live audio and video stream can be found here.
CHECK OUT Screenshots from WWI 2006 -- I am surprised by the Dark Portal and Onyxia huge replicas in those photos.
CHECK OUT The video Coverage
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Saturday 04th 2006f February 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Glynnys Talken: Scottish Festival and Games |
Glynnis Talken -- voice actress of Kerrigan -- is almost ready to launch her new non-Blizzard book Lady Danger around April. After a few months of hiatus, she's back with her monthly Newsletter and public appearances. She?ll be appearing aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach for the Scottish Festival and Games on Sunday, February 19th. You can find her signing the Knights of de Ware trilogy at the Tea & Sympathy booth. Details of tickets for entry to Queen Mary.
As revealed exclusively in Blizzplanet a few months ago, with her new publisher Warner she will change her writer name from Glynnis Campbell to her new seudonym . . . Sarah McKerrigan.
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Wednesday 01st 2006f February 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Worldwide Invitational Tournament Mini-Site Launched |
The Worldwide Invitational 2006 mini-site has just been launched. The mini-site includes daily news updates, replays, results, and interviews covering everything that will occur before and during the event.
Blizzard also announced the seedings and bracket structure for both the Ladder Season 3 finals, as well as the StarCraft Invitational tournament.
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Friday 27th 2006f January 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft Patch 1.13F |
Starcraft and Brood War expansion have been updated to patch 1.13f. Eight years, and we keep getting patches. Won't you love that? At least Starcraft buddies aren't been forgotten. If you need a manual download of the patch, check it out Here.
Patch Notes- Fixed several bugs that contributed to game exploits.
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Thursday 19th 2006f January 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational 2006 |
Blizzard is proud to announce that our second Worldwide Invitational will be held next month in Seoul, Korea on February 3-5. The Worldwide Invitational will be home to an invite-only StarCraft tournament as well as the Warcraft III Season Three Finals.
The StarCraft invitational players will be announced in the days leading up to the event. Season Three of the Warcraft III ladder ended in December and the finalists from the season-ending qualifiers will be playing in the Season Three Finals. Click here for more information.
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Wednesday 18th 2006f January 2006 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft won Walk of Game Star |
 Starcraft recently won the Walk of Game Award recognizing the best legends in the video games industry. A star to Starcraft will be unveiled later during 2006 at the Metreon Building in San Francisco. Since its debut in 1998, the #1-selling StarCraft series has won industry acclaim and has shattered sales records worldwide with over nine million copies sold. Blizzard continued the series with the critically acclaimed StarCraft: Brood War?, which won multiple Expansion Pack of the Year awards and is still considered by many critics to be one of the best add-on products to date.
Walk of Game is the first-of-its-kind landmark honoring the icons and pioneers of the videogame industry.
Walk of Game is located inside Metreon, a 350,000 square-foot entertainment complex at Fourth and Mission Streets in the heart of downtown San Francisco.
Every year, gamers worldwide cast their vote on www.WalkOfGame.com to induct the next set of honorees to receive a permanent 24"x 24", customized steel star on the Walk of Game. From the list of nominees, the top four in the category of Games/Characters and the top two in Lifetime Achievement will be inducted.
The list of nominees is compiled from a survey of industry members and technology, entertainment, and gaming media. SCA Interactive, a leader in online promotions, powers the Walk of Game voting interface.
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Sunday 04th 2005f December 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Sarah McKerrigan: Lady Danger Novel |
Glynnis Talken -- voice of Kerrigan in Starcraft -- has great news for her Medieval Romance writer career to share with her fans. Sarah Michelle Gellar has endorsed her first novel LADY DANGER. We have the cover of her new book to be published by Time/Warner on April 2006.
I have some very exciting news this month. My agent has managed to garner an endorsement for my first Sarah McKerrigan novel from Sarah Michelle Gellar of ?Buffy, the Vampire Slayer?! Buffy definitely has something in common with Deirdre, my kick-butt heroine in LADY DANGER. They're both beautiful, powerful warriors, tough yet vulnerable. And this valuable endorsement should help get copies of LADY DANGER flying off the shelves in April! By the way, if you want a sneak peek at my book cover, visit www.sarahmckerrigan.com. The site isn't really up and running yet, but there's a splash page for LADY DANGER.
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Wednesday 02nd 2005f November 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| BlizzCon Invitational Video - GGL |
 BlizzCon Invitational VOD?s (Video on Demand) are now available at http://www.ggl.com/mediaplayer/ - Watch the best StarCraft and WarCraft players from around the world battle it out at the first ever BlizzCon Invitational. These 12 full-length featured matches in Windows Media format include the commentary of Wacksteven, a veteran to World Cyber Games StarCraft coverage, and u5|bunny, a well known WarCraft 3 broadcaster. Videos are available in both streaming and downloadable formats. They include the fantastic finals of Reach vs. Yellow in StarCraft and Grubby vs. Zacard in WarCraft 3.
If you weren?t there to see the action live, you can still be a part of the global experience that was the BlizzCon Invitational!
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Tuesday 01st 2005f November 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Cast your Vote on Starcraft |
Earlier this month we posted information about StarCraft's nomination to the Walk of Game. StarCraft is now in the running to receive a distinguished steel star on this Metreon landmark. However, the competition is understandably close, as some of the greatest games and game characters of all time are among the nominees. Voting will end on October 31, so we would like to take one more opportunity to ask you to visit the site and cast your vote for the nominees you feel are most deserving of this rare honor.
http://vote.walkofgame.com
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Friday 28th 2005f October 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Sarah McKerrigan: Medieval Romance |
 Glynnys Talken had a lot of fun at her last 2005 public book signing presentation. She is hard pressed now working on her next Medieval Romance book to be on sale by April 2006 under Warner Publishing. Glynnis was last weekend -- through October 8th and 9th -- at the Seaside Scottish Games at Seaside Park in Ventura, California. You can find at our Store section all the Medieval Romance books written by her. Glynnis provided us with a photo of her book signing at Seaside Scottish Games.
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Friday 14th 2005f October 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Ohh Noes!!! Blizzard does it Again! |
Something strange is happening at Battle.net website. The page loads a random image with a simple message: 10. 7. 05
Remember the infamous Starcraft: Ghost countdown back on 2002? This may mean there is a big announcement to be done today! The HTML page has a hidden message saying: "Get ready!". Some fans speculate a new game will be announced, or a new franchise, or a Diablo related game, while others speculate that there will be a new Ladder reset and others say Starcraft: Ghost date release will be announced based on this image. Here is another variant image with the .999_=1 message. Below are the Teaser images displayed randomly on reload:
GosuGamers.net has word that Devs are teasing fans over at the Battle.net forums with clues and hints driving them crazy. Rumor is that Starcraft, Warcraft III and Diablo II will shortly be announced to launch a Nintendo DS version. We will have to wait late today for the official news. Keep updated.
Everyone is mind-boggled refreshing Battle.net website all day long to find out!
UPDATE: Very ... interesting. It was all about a new website layout, no new game announcements.
(Yunae)
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Friday 07th 2005f October 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Glynnis: Seaside Scottish Games@Ventura, CA |
 Glynnis Talken -- voice actress of Starcraft Kerrigan and Diablo II Rogue/Kashya -- will have her last public presentation before she dedicates to finish her medieval romance book to be Published by Warner on April 2006. Glynnis recently signed with Warner as new publisher and her new writer seudonym will be Sarah McKerrigan. You can find her at the Seaside Scottish Games at Seaside Park in Ventura, California. Glynnis will be there all day Saturday and Sunday, October 8th and 9th at the Tea & Sympathy booth. Although the event is not Blizzard related, she has told me in the past that all Starcraft and Diablo II fans are more than welcome to show up for a autograph on any poster, game box, or product; a photo or simply to say hello. Read the Newsletter below:
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Wednesday 05th 2005f October 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| StarCraft Map Contest Winners Announced |
The five winning StarCraft maps that will be used in the BlizzCon Invitational have been chosen!! Players from across the globe will be competing at BlizzCon playing with this maps. The winning maps can be viewed and downloaded from the BlizzCon website.
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Thursday 08th 2005f September 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| EFF Criticizes BNETD Court Decision |
The Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF) strikes back at the decision of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to give a victory to Blizzard Entertainment on the legal case against BNETD:
The court ruled that Congress? explicit protections for reverse engineering and add-on innovation in the highly controversial DMCA are too narrow and weak to protect innovators from lawsuits when the software they create is used for illegal copying, even if the copying occurs without the knowledge or participation of the program?s creators. The court also ruled that clicking on a EULA?s "I Agree" button, common when installing almost any software product purchased today, can be used to force both consumers and competitors out of the marketplace for add-on innovation.
Additionally, Gamespot got a reply from Paul Sams -- Blizzard VP of Business Operations after the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled their decision. The link provides some more of his comment. Here is an excerpt:
We have worked hard to provide gamers with a free and secure environment on Battle.net, and this ruling further validates that we are justified in protecting our service and our players. In addition, it represents another major victory against software piracy."
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Sunday 04th 2005f September 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Blizzard Wins Blizzard vs BNETD Case !!! |
It has been announced that Blizzard has won the Blizzard vs BNETD case.
"A federal appeals court has ruled that computer programmers do not have the right to reverse-engineer Blizzard Entertainment's video games to improve their playability."
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Saturday 03rd 2005f September 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft & Broodwar Patch 1.13c |
Blizzard released Starcraft and Broodwar patch 1.13c which addresses a couple of bugs introduced by the previous patch. You can download the patch for PC, Mac OS 8.6-9.2 and Mac OS X at the following link.
- Fixed a bug involving zerg buildings.
- Fixed a bug related to minimap unit ordering during replays.
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Thursday 25th 2005f August 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Brood War added to the ESL |
The ESL (Electronic Sports League) has picked up StarCraft: Brood War for their German Pro Series. The ESL polled the community, and StarCraft was voted in last week. StarCraft joins Warcraft III in this series, For more information about the ESL and the Pro Series, please visit the ESL's Web site.
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Tuesday 23rd 2005f August 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Glynnis Campbell New Book Pseudonym |
We are pleased to announce all Starcraft Fans, that Glynnis Talken -- voice actress of Kerrigan in Starcraft and Broodwar has won all three Awards of her Medieval Romance Book entries into the Hearts Through History Contest?-for Best Medieval, Best Western, and A Hero for All Time! Categories. Most notable is that Glynnis Talken has changed her book publisher to Warner with a new Writer pseudonym. Could you believe which? Glynnis Talken will be known in the Medieval Romance Book world as SARAH McKERRIGAN. Glynnis Talken has done voice acting for games like Starcraft, Broodwar, Diablo II and has also been known for the voice behind MTV TheMaxx, and Star Wars Audiobooks. Due to some terms by Warner, her Glynnis Campbell pseudonym may no longer be used on her new books with Warner, therefore she chose Sarah McKerrigan. I will have to apologize to Glynnis. She told me her new pseudonym a month and a half ago, and I sincerely thought she was kidding me. The Newsletter announcement makes it official. Read her August Newsletter below ...
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Wednesday 10th 2005f August 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| BlizzCon Invitational Prizes Announced |
When the world's best Real-Time Strategy players descend on Anaheim this October, there will be more than just honor at stake. Blizzard announced that the champions of the StarCraft and Warcraft III invitational tournaments will be able to look forward to taking home a check for $10,000 to accompany their winner's trophy. The runner-up in each tournament will be awarded a $3,000 prize. Be sure to check back soon for more information on the identities of the 16 participants that will be invited from all across the globe to compete for these cash prizes.
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Saturday 06th 2005f August 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| VGTour Ladder Invitation |
We were informed of a new VGTour ladder -- Vile Gaming Tour -- on Battle.net, organized by IA-NewB. The VGTour ladder is based mostly on US West realm and is entering its 4th season. Vile Gaming Tour founder, Spartan, was recently interviewed on GosuGamers.net.
The VGTour is trying to provide a solid ladder on West for all the skilled west players to compete on and determine who is really the best. The event has two ladder sections, one for high money and one for low money maps, so that ALL gamers on bnet can participate. Read the interview for more in-depth details.
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Saturday 30th 2005f July 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| BlizzCon: StarCraft Map Contest! |
Blizzard is inviting the StarCraft map-making community to design and create the maps that will be used during the invitational tournament that will take place at BlizzCon. The contest details, rules, and submission process can be found here on the contest page.
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Wednesday 27th 2005f July 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Glynnis Talken nominated for Medieval Book |
Glynnis Talken, voice actress of Starcraft Kerrigan, thanks all the fans that visited her at the San Diego Scottish Festival and informs she won't have book signings on July due to an Awards event. She will be at the National Convention of Romance Writers of America in Reno, Nevada where she was nominated in three categories by the Hearts Through History contest for her medieval romance books. Beside a voice actress, Glynnis is a medieval romance book writer. She was nominated to the following categories:
- Best Medieval book
- Best Western book
- A Hero for All Time book
Glynnis is preparing to write a new book trilogy featuring three Medieval hero ladies. We will update more of her new project as soon as we get more details. Her book writer name is Glynnis Campbell. If you wish to take a look at her book titles, visit her website at http://www.glynnis.net/books. Read the newsletter below . . .
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Saturday 02nd 2005f July 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
| Starcraft & Broodwar Patch 1.13 |
StarCraft has been updated with the newly released patch 1.13. This revision addresses a few well-known bugs that were used to perform in-game exploits, corrects display issues with the Korean Font and makes adjustments to the Player's in-game minimap. To see a copy of the patch notes, please click here.
We hope this patch makes battling within the StarCraft universe a little more fun, so feel free to join Battle.net once again to reengage in the epic struggle between the Terran, Protoss and Zerg! Load your game and connect to Battle.net to auto-download the patch.
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Thursday 30th 2005f June 2005 |
Posted by Medievaldragon |
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