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3 May 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; If you haven’t heard already, StarCraft II will drop on July 27th of this year. That’s for many places, including the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Yes, Macau gamers, get ready. [...]
For a video companion to our new hands-on preview of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty’s single-player campaign, this seven minute long video of hot SCV on mineral action and giant laser drill management is just what the doctor ordered. More »
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2 Mar 2010Yesterday, Valve issued an update to its 2007 first-person puzzle game Portal, adding exactly one new Steam achievement and 26 audio transmissions that players could listen to via in-game radios. So started an impressive puzzle. Instead of listening to those transmissions in-game, members of various web forums, including the Steam, Facepunch and Something Awful forums—who [...]
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1 Mar 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Valve’s brilliant first-person puzzler Portal has just been updated. Not normally a big deal, but when that update adds a new, mysterious Steam achievement and some hidden radio transmissions and this is Valve we’re dealing with, we’re right to be curious. Today’s Portal update, officially, features the following addition: “Changed radio transmission [...]
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20 Feb 2010If you’re unlucky enough to not be in the StarCraft II Beta, or unwilling to pay $300 to get in, here’s a two minute clip showing what you’re missing – in this case, the Zerg clobbering some holier-than-thou Protoss ass. This is the latest GameTrailers video on the subject; five other gameplay videos were posted [...]
Earlier today, I became one of the first people in the world to fire up Starcraft II’s beta. And while it’s too soon to share my impressions of the game with you, it’s not too early to share some screenshots. I’ve tried to get a nice balance of races and terrain here, to give you [...]
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16 Feb 2010The Fast Finger keyboard was made for people, mainly children, who are not yet comfortable with the QWERTY layout of most keyboards. It’s also made for people who’d love to use just one button to type TTYL, L8R or BRB. I saw this keyboard at Toy Fair 2010 in New York City yesterday in one [...]