According to Starcraft Wire, Berkeley is giving students a chance to earn college credit by playing Starcraft. From the course description: What may look like complex topics are just ways we want you to think more deeply about the game to derive a greater satisfaction from playing. Furthermore, this understanding should have applications in real […]
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Starcraft II: A Trilogy
October 12th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Blizzard, Industry, RTS
I’ll be heading out on a short road trip to LA tomorrow morning, but I thought I should comment on the big RTS news of the week. Blizzard is doing three long form campaigns for the upcoming Starcraft II, and each one will be packaged separately. So, if you want to play all three campaigns, […]
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Starcraft II Preview
March 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blizzard, Preview
Gamespy has just published Allen Rausch’s preview of the Zerg in Starcraft II. One of the key elements in the re-design of the Zerg is the understanding that the Zerg do not use “technology” as humans understand the term. Zerg build nothing nor do they truly create anything. Instead the Zerg use a sort of […]
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Michael Morhaime a Hall of Famer
December 12th, 2007 · 11 Comments · Awards, Blizzard
Blizzard CEO Michael Morhaime has been inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, making him the 11th inductee and the fifth of that group to have a notable background in strategy gaming (Wright, Bunten Berry, Molyneux and Meier are the others). I’ve never had the love of Blizzard RTS games […]
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Delays, Success and Publicity
May 21st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blizzard
The announcement of Starcraft II is easily the biggest strategy game announcement in gaming history. This morning’s Gametab front page is cluttered with news about a real time strategy game that we know very little about. Even the announcement of a new X-Com remake would do little to push the Protoss into the margins. The […]
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Back In Time
May 19th, 2007 · 13 Comments · Blizzard
I’m probably not alone, but today I have decided to reinstall Starcraft. It was one of those games that never had enough time to sink its hooks into me – it arrived at a time when I didn’t play as many games as I do now. So this is research. I’m not looking forward to […]
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