In a bit of a departure from the past, it sounds like Blizzard has been working harder to ensure that innappropriate maps are not uploaded on Battle.net Their statement: While players are encouraged to share the maps they create through Battle.net, published maps are subject to review to ensure that they promote a fun and safe environment for all players... If a map is found to contain inappr... more.

After almost 5 miserable years of playing the highly addictive game World of Warcraft, I have quit for good. Here is the proof... ... more.

Based on this rather interesting interview, Blizzard seems pretty open to expaning into other platforms and operating systems in the future...as long as we all promise never to bring up Ghost 64. They state: "We don't focus on the platforms so much, especially in the early stages of creating a game, we really focus on what the game experience ought to be, what the gameplay should be. Once we... more.

Critics are a bit concerned over Blizzard's retail release of a game some claim to have been far from finished.  The battle.net forums are a buzz over a number of bugs, including: Multiple installations A particular problem for Beta modders, the Blizzard installer apparently is allowing for multiple copies of SC2 to reside on the same machine.  Previous installations are not checked for, which... more.

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Blizzard has announced that they will not be requiring World of Warcraft forum players to reveal their names.  This announcement has brought a great deal of relief to the entire community, as many Blizzard gamers viewed the company's shift to Real ID as a terrible idea that would lead to a large loss of privacy by gamers. Over 20,000 posts angrily rebuked blizzard on their forums, and thankful... more.

With a number of game launchers broken after version 10, Blizzard has broken basically all of them with patch 11 of the SC2 beta. On a brighter note, we have some interesting balance changes.  Any thoughts? StarCraft II Beta – Patch 11 (version 0.13.0.15250) The latest patch notes can always be found on the StarCraft II Beta General Discussion forum: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?to... more.

Pricing has been announced for SC2 version being sold for Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil.  Gamers there will pay $299 MXN, $119 ARS, $13,900 CLP, and $49.90 BRL for a version of Wings of Liberty playable for 6 months.  While costing half to a third the retail price, the 6 month time limit will make it so gamers that plan to play for more than a year could potentially pay more for the game ... more.

On April 12th Blizzard sued six of the people behind Starcrack, alleging they had created multiplayer technology that allowed multiplayer games of SC2 on 'rogue' battle.net servers. The basis of the suit was the DMCA (digital millenium copyright act) and further alleged copyright infringement, as well as purposely circumventing copyright protection systems. One week later, on April 19th the ... more.

Blizzard released the beta version of StarCraft II for Mac users just before May began, a couple of months after the PC beta began. As in the Windows beta, Mac users will need a beta key to get in on the early action. The surprising early Mac release supports the likelihood of Blizzard releasing Mac and PC versions at the same time come release date.... more.