StarCraft II, the Heart of the Swarm Expansion set was announced some time ago, but now finally has a concrete release date of March 12, 2013. Which is all fine and dandy because I am looking forward to this game very much and I will definitely play it… But will I buy the Collector’s edition [...]

An interesting announcement, indeed. It looks like Blizzard has teamed up with USAopoly to produce licensed versions of two of the most iconic and well-known boardgames of our culture, Monopoly, and Risk. I collect Monopoly sets and memorabilia, I have over 50 different sets. Of course, I will be compelled to add this to my [...]

I hope you are all enjoying your Catacallisms and Worgens out there. Sadly, I have not been able to play World of Warcraft for months and that saddens me. I may miss out entirely on this expansion (thanks, day job!) Anyhow, this link was sent to me by one of our fine readers and I [...]

It has been a crazy past couple of weeks so I am a little behind on the latest and greatest. As far as informational updates go, I have been at the doctors office and hospital lately way more times than I care to, for both myself and for my wife who should be giving birth [...]

From the Press Release: Blizzard Entertainment Begins Closed Beta Testing of StarCraft® II: Wings of Liberty™ Blizzard Entertainment announced today that the closed beta test for its highly anticipated real-time strategy game, StarCraft® II: Wings of Liberty™, has begun. Thousands of gamers around the world have started to receive invitations from the company to participate [...]

Well, since I haven’t relented on my WoW hiatus, I decided to download and fire up the shiny new Dungeons and Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited. Allegedly the “unlimited” is to represent how the MMORPG is now free to play for as long as you wish, no purchases required, CD-key or otherwise. Before playing, I steeled [...]

This past weekend has been amazing. Blizzcon ’09 was an awesome overload from start to finish. The amount of energy in Anaheim was indescribable, so many great things were happening and awesome people were everywhere. I hope you all enjoyed the pictures and twittering we did on-location. If you missed any of it go back [...]

We got our first hands-on experience with Starcraft II Earlier this evening, and it was beautiful. The game looks and feels ready to go. A nice dude with Q/A named Jon talked with us for a while, but he wasn’t allowed to discuss release specifics with us, but apologized because he would “go on for [...]

Not that anyone should be SURPRISED, I figured at least you all should KNOW. From the press release that went out today: >>Hey everyone, Just wanted to make sure you were aware of this message that we just posted for players regarding StarCraft II and Battle.net. Today we announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty [...]

Dragonkitty found This article earlier today, and it got my attention because how truer to the spirit of a “Gamer’s University” could this possibly be? “Students in UC – Berkeley can take up StarCraft studies for college credits.” What? Seriously? Yeah. “Course Description: UC Berkeley students with an interest in real-time strategy games and the [...]