It's awesome that Blizzard made a game so flexible, even FPS shooters are possible. ... more.

For years now, Starcraft players have complained about players from other regions playing on North American servers (West more often than not).  This was criticized as leading to teammates not speaking a common language, and pings being particularily high. Blizzard has announced that they will encourage cross server play, stating: North American Server Access for Southeast Asia/Australia/New ... more.

Starcraft II Bêta Custom Map Patcher is a tool created by Daimakaicho and designed Coldragon which allow you to patch easily your .s2ma/.sc2map to play custom map with friends. It's based on an original discovery of one of member of sc2mapster. Now, it's compatible with Vista and Seven. We don't know fo XP. Please report bugs you're notice Custom Map Patcher is a tool that allows you t... more.

A Japanese developer has released the early pieces of a working Battle.net simulator.  As players cannot currently play games with it, it's of limited use but of interest in that it provides a proof of concept.  Full details (in Japanese) are available at: http://bbs.replays.net/showtopic-1979758-1.aspx A rough translation can be found at: http://darkblizz.org/Forum2/sc2-tools/primary-starcra... more.

While not far away, the recently released screenshots showing a functional battle.net emulator are fakes.  Hopefully we won't have to wait until next april for a working battle.net enabled beta!... more.