Before their fallout with Vivendi, the employees at Blizzard North were working on what looks to be a Diablo game.

The Demon Hunter is designed to be more flexible than a simple long-range attacker.

Activision Blizzard’s enormous simultaneous worldwide launch for StarCraft II has made it the fastest-selling strategy game ever.

Heads up Siliconerites! Unscrupulous characters are using Starcraft II hype to steal Battle.net accounts.

Starcraft is so popular in South Korea there’s even a teach-yourself-English book based on the PC game. In honor of Starcraft II’s launch, we’re going to take another look at it.

If Activision Blizzard CEO, Bobby Kotick, has his way, a future generation of television-compatible PCs could, perhaps, provide a viable alternative to a videogame consoles.

The Zerg, Protoss, and Terrans races wage war in graphic novel form thanks to Tokyopop, but something feels different. Starcraft Frontline Volume 1 takes inspiration from Starship Troopers by giving the Terran troops plenty of one-liners after they blow up Hydralisks. The plot doesn’t just involve exploding Zerg into gray goo, although there are lots [...]

South Korea loves Starcraft. People here still play the decade old game online and matches are always played on TV. South Korea also has a broad selection of English training books that go from your basic workbook to well… Starcraft English! Yes, through the magic of Starcraft you can boost your English vocabulary. While the [...]

Blizzard is one of those companies you just can’t help but like. Hell, there’s lots of good reasons to. They’re committed to their customers, won’t ship a game till it’s ready, have Mac and PC versions available in the same box, and produce quality games. Well, now you can add making a very sick kid [...]

There is a really good interview up on MSNBC with Rob Pardo, vice president of game design at Blizzard about Starcraft II. As usual Blizzard is sticking to their usual “It’ll ship when it’s ready” philosophy and it is definitely not coming out in 2007. That’s fine by me, I would much rather wait for [...]

At Blizzards WWI Invitational event in Seoul they officially unveiled Starcraft 2. Like the original it is a real time strategy game with three races the Protoss, Terran and Zerg. The interface looks familiar to anyone who played Starcraft and it doesn’t look like Starcraft 2 is going to reinvent the wheel. The official site [...]

The whole video game themed cake thing seemed to sail right by me. I really couldn’t figure out what all the fuss was about. With the exception of that sweet Mario wedding cake of course. But then late last night while catching up on some reading, I see this cake here. Made by one woman [...]

A 60MB download, a copy of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and a fiddly installation are the only way to enjoy a cute Zelda-ish RTS on your PC. Get the WC3 mod here and expect a story along those lines: "Hyrule is unexpectedly attacked by an army of Ahtnamaz, large Ant-like creatures that have avoided [...]

  World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, an expansion pack to World of Warcraft, was released at many Gamestops across the country at 12AM. The expansion pack alone costs $39.99, but if you’re into the game you really want the Collector’s Edition. The limited edition package sells for $69.99, but it comes bundled with a load [...]