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14 Mar 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - Blizzard Invites Fan Writer to Their Offices Blizzard is looking to invite one fan fiction writer from their three franchise communities to visit Blizzard headquarters, dine with the developers, meeting the lore-writing staff and receive a Frostmourne sword.
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13 Mar 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - WarCraft 3 Player Gets £350,000 Deal IncGamers reports that 22 year old Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang, a Korean WarCraft 3 professional gamer who was dismissed from the MyM team just over a week ago, was rumoured to have negotiated a contract with WeMade FOX, a Korean gaming organisation. The rumour was confirmed yesterday, and 'Moon' is now the second best paid professional gamer in the world.
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11 Mar 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - Blizzard Fans Furious Over Cast Changes In StarCraft 2 Thousands of Blizzard fans are up in arms over the developer's decision to change the voice actors of two of their favourite characters from the original game, for StarCraft 2.
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4 Mar 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - Blizzard answers: Does it explode? The famous Q&A sessions seem to be slow these days but the Blue activity has increased. If something like a posting spree exists then the Starcraft 2 community managers seem to be going for the title. Karune and Cydra answered a over a dozen questions on various Starcraft 2 related topics. Topics include the new Dark Templar technology, the mysterious Zerg Overlord and the Nydus network and the Terran Planetary Fortress.
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25 Feb 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - Blizzard Shuns Original StarCraft Voice Actors StarcraftWire and BlizzPlanet, two Blizzard and StarCraft fansites, have followed the development on which artists will be featuring in StarCraft II, and after much ado, it's now confirmed that neither Glynnis Talken or Robert Clotworthy will be voicing the famous Kerrigan, Queen of Blades and Jim Raynor. Many fans are upset, and when Blizzard were still auditioning, community members where trying to petition Blizzard into keeping the original actors.
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25 Feb 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - StarCraft 2 Beta Keys from Blizzard, "and more" This was just posted by Karune: Besides the Vespene Laughs contest where you can win Beta keys they are also starting more ways to gain StarCraft 2 beta keys. However, this should be interesting for fans of all franchises, as there is "more" involved.
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23 Feb 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - Play StarCraft II in Hanover in March If you happen to be in Hanover around 3rd to 8th of March this year, you can have a sneak preview of StarCraft 2 at CeBIT! You can read the whole press release.
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17 Feb 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - StarCraft 2 Lead Dev: We're in the final stretch Dustin Browder, Lead Developer of StarCraft 2, today made an effort to calm down the StarCraft 2 community. He talked about the beta, release date, battle reports and encouraged people to hang in there, saying that "we're in the final stretch".
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16 Feb 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - China Blocks StarCraft: Ghost Registration StarcraftWire.net reports that the Chinese State Administration of Industry & Commerce (SAIC) has rejected an application by Blizzard Entertainment to register StarCraft: Ghost as an e-sports brand, claiming the registration's meaning of of "astrology" and "Ghost" stands in contrast to "socialist morality" and would promote "feudal superstition".
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2 Feb 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - Starcraft College Course Extremely Popular StarcraftWire.net alerted the web of the "DeCal" StarCraft College Course taking place in UC, Berkeley several days ago and the first week of lecture has now passed. Gunnar "Leord" Petzall of StarcraftWire contacted the course facilitator, former progamer Alan "Nimue" Feng before breaking the scoop to the 'net, and had a more in-depth discussion with him about his background and this course he was planning and it seems like the course got a significantly higher interest after the spread over the internet than Alan could ever have hoped...
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31 Jan 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - MYM Drops Their WC3 and SC Teams Since 2001 the world famous MYM teams have been around within all kind of games, but especially the Warcraft 3 and Starcraft:Broodwar sections have harvested most of the attention. They have been feared, loved, hated and have had many followers and fans, in both good and bad times. Today the era ends for these teams in MYM and boots are left on the Warcraft and Starcraft battlefield that will be hard to fill.
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27 Jan 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - Study StarCraft For College Yeah, you read it right! And no, no one is kidding!

Students in UC - Berkeley can take up StarCraft studies for college credits. The only thing the students could want in addition to this is a Blizzard sponsorship and playing around in StarCraft II!

Read all about this marvellously educating college course (that WILL give you college credits)!

Course Description:
UC Berkeley students with an interest in real-time strategy games and the competitive gaming landscape are encouraged to participate in this class.

This course will go in-depth in the theory of how war is conducted within the confines of the game Starcraft. There will be lecture on various aspects of the game, from the viewpoint of pure theory to the more computational aspects of how exactly battles are conducted.
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22 Jan 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - Blizzard Gives Out StarCraft 2 Beta Keys to Their Vespene Laughs Comic Winners Karune, the Community Manager for StarCraft II at Blizzard, has just made all the StarCraft 2 fan's day with a new post about the upcoming StarCraft 2 beta.

Beta seems to be closer and closer with all the hint and teasing in the past days. You now have the opportunity to win a StarCraft II beta key by participating in the Vespene Laughs! Starcraft II Comic Contest.
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19 Jan 2009
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - StarCraft II Beta Release Date Set by Blizzard While rumours are rampant regarding the StarCraft 2 Closed Beta Release Date and phishers around the globe attempts to steal personal details or online login information to Blizzard accounts through fake Beta sites and e-mails, Blizzard have actually gone so far as to decide the Closed Beta release date.

Whether you will get to know it is a completely different matter!
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5 Dec 2008
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - Rumour: StarCraft 2 Release Date: Q1 2009? StarCraftWire.net has come across a printout of "Upcoming Games Releases in Singapore" for the next few months, and it shows StarCraft 2 to have a date set for a 1st quarter release in 2009.

Considering what we know so far, this is not an impossibility in fact, and the fact that several other titles are under "To Be Decided" (TBD) status of this Singapore-specific release schedule would imply that it's not the standard type of print, where retailers just set a date so they can add it to their systems.
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26 Nov 2008
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - StarCraft Patch 1.16 Released SnagWire: Blizzard has released a patch for its decade old RTS hit StarCraft.

Patch 1.16 offers some optimizations: "[StarCraft] now only uses as much CPU as it needs to run smoothly." In-game chat (excluding whispers) is now saved in the replays. There's some bug fixes and the removal of several exploits including Terrans drop-anywhere nukes and some additional Zerg exploits as well.

Here are the full notes...
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12 Nov 2008
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - Blizzard Ditching StarCraft 2 Actors: StarCraft Fans Petition Agains It It was previously reported that a couple of agencies informed StarCraftWire.net that the voice acting role of Jim Raynor and Kerrigan the Queen of Blades are now up for grabs. The original actors as well as the ones used for the WWI and BlizzCon gameplays are out, and they are looking for new ones.

Fans have rallied to show their support for the original actors, which seems to be well loved by the community.
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12 Nov 2008
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - Blizzard Bans 350,000 Dirty, Cheating Battle.netters Kotaku writes: "Microsoft isn't the only one swinging the account crushing banhammer just before the holiday rush. Blizzard has suspended an impressive 350,000 Battle.net accounts identified as using "third-party hacks" in both StarCraft and Diablo II."
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5 Nov 2008
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - StarCraft: Ghost Active Again? StarCraftWire.net reports on a possible slip-up from a Korea Gaming Conference keynote. Nova from StarCraft: Ghost might still be alive and kicking inside Blizzard HQ.
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23 Oct 2008
PC News from N4G | Starcraft: Brood War
PC - Starcraft: Brood War - StarCraft Beta in 2009 During the BlizzCon 2008 show, a StarCraft II Q&A session was held with the long haired and rockin' Chris Sigaty and Samwise Didier. Among the answers they give, we are informed on what changed with Blizzard after the Activision merger (free Guitar Hero boxes to all employees), the reason for the trilogy (if you had not already heard about that lot already) and a confirmation that the StarCraft Beta will start in 2009!
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