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September 4, 08

The upcoming massive BlizzCon convention has attracted the attention of many of
us loyal Blizzard fans. As it approaches, Blizzard has offered a way that everyone who didn't win in the ticket drawings or purchase a ticket can still partake in the fun. They have teamed up with DirecTv to create an offer that would allow everyone at home uncut coverage of the event from the Anaheim Convention Center. Everything you could possibly want to know about current events in the Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, and World of Warcraft / Burning Crusades / Wrath of the Lich King world. As is BlizzCon tradition, there will be a Goody Bag with much coveted loot inside. For those WoW players, you will find the 16” inflatable divine shield ball with a “hearthing” Paladin inside as reminder of just how annoying they can be. There will also be Diablo health and mana stress balls, Pandaren Brewmaster Bottle Openers, Zerg Creep, and much more!

The much anticipated World of Warcraft addition, Wrath of the Lich King will bea hot topic of debate amongst convention goers. The discussion panel will bedelving into the role of the necromantic Death Knight, the first HERO CLASS ever in the game. The level cap will be raised to 80 allowing for even more extensive talent builds, and the Inscription profession has been created allowing players to uniquely alter spells. There will also be an entire new continent as well as epic siege warfare, where players will use siege engines to destroy destructible buildings that lay in their path.

However, with these ever advancing worlds and graphics, you need the equipment to keep up with the competition. After much researching for the ultimate gaming machine that won't make you go broke, our staff has come up with some potential solutions for you gamers out there. Dell has taken on a partnership with Alienware so now you can own one of the coolest most powerful machines on the market and not go broke doing it. The Alienware Auroroa utilizes the power of AMD Phenom X4 quad-core CPU technology, and is fueled by the AMD 790FX motherboard that allows for system longevity and upgrading capabilities. With ATI CrossFireX Dual graphics card and high performance Radeon graphics also available, this computer is definitely worth taking a glance at if you are in the market.

Dell XPS computers are also worth taking a look at if you want to have a system powerful enough to handle the explorations of the Sanctuary and beyond in Diablo 3, or the vast expanses of Northrend in Wrath of the Lich King, or combat the Zerg masses in Starcraft 2. They support both Crossfire and SLI cards, and the ATX design allows for easy upgrades to your computer, and with a Bios optimized, or overclockability, how can you go wrong. These are just a few great options, and be sure to check back for the next article which will include our editor's pick for great mobile gaming power laptops

August 6, 2008. New StarCraft 2 Q&A

In the latest Q&A Batch, a major macro related game mechanic has been modified, the refining of Vespene Gas. This entire procedure has been revamped, and here at Starcraft 2 Zone, we have broken down the process for you to understand.

In the original Starcraft, players would generally put 3-4 miners on their vespene gas and then forget about it for the remainder of the game. However, now players start with 2 gas geysers at their starting location. These geysers will begin with X amount of gas (currently 600 but at this stage of the game this is very subject to balance). Then whenever the player should choose, they can purchase additional gas inside their geyser for X minerals (currently 100). Each time they purchase more gas, it increases by that 600 factor and shutdowns for 45 seconds to apply the upgrade. Upon depletion, workers can still gather gas, but rhe rate is reduced down to 2 gas per return.

This new game play mechanic provides players with a much broader array of strategies to choose from when creating their economic strategy. Players will now have to pay more attention to their resource gathering, rather than the previous "set it and forget it" method. This provides even more important decision making as players have to choose between massing Tier 1 units, teching
gradually with 1 gas refinery, or teching very aggressively employing both of their gas refining outputs.

This new aspect will make the game better not only at the Professional competition level but also for the average player as they have a whole array of new teching vs massing strategies now available at their fingertips. With the new relationship between having to spend minerals to mind more gas, players may think twice before fast teching as they could fall victim to more aggressive Tier 1 players would spent all of their potential teching resources on a massive Tier 1 army and then easily overrun their tech hungry opponents.

July 30, 2008.
As you all know, Starcraft 2 will be incorporating many of your favorite heroes from the original game. In a previous article, we discussed the exploits of the die-hard, adventurous Jim Raynor. In todays article, we are covering the Protoss Dark Templar hero, Zeratul.

Zeratul in the original Starcraft proved himself to be a mysterious, yet tactful leader of the Dark Templar Protoss sect and used his countless years of experience to know when to be diplomatic, or when to be a cold blooded killer. This fearless leader has kept his people alive through the countless treacheries threatened by the Zerg, and his role in the Starcraft story line is just as
important in the upcoming sequel.

Zeratul through his hard work and experience reunited the Protoss, who under the conclave had repulsed the Dark Templar as impure and not worthy of their mighty race, simply because they didn't want to submit to Khala, or the communal mind meld of the Protoss, but rather they wanted to live as individuals. However, through the work of Zeratul and Tassadar, the oppressive Conclave Protoss government was overthrown and the Protoss race has been reunited, in time to
stem the never-ending offensive of the Zerg.

In attempting to reunite the Protoss however, he made some very grave discoveries indeed. While tracking down Protoss power signals throughout the galaxy, he ran into a former agent of Kerrigan, Zerg Queen of Blades. A former Terran Ghost now corrupted by her, Samir Duran was heading a breeding facility that was combining the Zerg and Protoss races in the hopes of creating a super
unit to help the Zerg in their quest for global domination.

However, upon destroying the breeding center and questioning Duran, Zeratul stumbled upon far graver secrets. Duran revealed that he never really served the Queen of Blades, but rather that he had been around the galaxy for many millennia under many different aliases and that he served a truly greater power than anything Zeratul could imagine.

This twist of events really enhances the Starcraft story line and leaves in question as to what this greater power really is. Previously, the Xel Naga were responsible for the creation of the Zerg and Protoss races, but the last remnants of this race was supposedly destroyed by their experiment, the Zerg, who became far too ruthless and violent. However, the Xel Naga could have
survived or maybe an even greater power exists somewhere out there. More will be revealed as the story line progresses!

June 24, 2008. Diablo 3
Can anyone say Diablo 3?! While traversing the Internet, I stumbled across Blizzard’s website and noticed that it had a special new cover screen. This struck me as odd because Blizzard very rarely does things like this unless they are giving us a sneak peak. Upon closer examination, I discovered the Diablo “Hel” and “Shael” runes embedded within the graphics.

The stone looks to be of the same material as that of a Soul Stone. This appears to be a massive stone of great power that is cracking open in the center depicted by the piercingly bright light emanating from it. Perhaps the prison is struggling to withhold the most despicable of all evils, Diablo, the Lord of Terror himself. Perhaps it holds some unknown monster never before unleashed upon the world of mortals, dwarfing Diablo’s evil powers, and ready to unleash his fury upon an unsuspecting realm.

Although this is not a definitive Diablo 3 release date, we may hear more news about it this weekend at the upcoming Blizzard conventions.

With Starcraft 2 production progressing steadily and possibly Diablo 3, this leads us to wonder what will happen to Blizzard’s cash cow; the World of Warcraft (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game).

It seems as though Blizzard has grown large enough to handle multiple full scale projects at once, as they released their highly successful Burning Crusade Expansion, and are in the process of developing the Wrath of the Lich King World of Warcraft MMORPG expansion set. We will keep you updated as to news of Diablo 3 this weekend!

June 15, 2008. The Decay of RTS Games. Hacking.Following in classic Blizzard behavior, they have let yet another of their once highly competitive and skillful games succumb to the vices of hackers. This is a growing trend in Blizzards games; they are incredibly successful upon debut and develop a loyal following who will continue to love the games long after their popularity passes, but Blizzard forgets about these people. They are a corporation, and they have their mind on money. Money comes in the form of new games, new productions, such as World of Warcraft, where users pay a monthly fee and generate enormous revenue.

I have witnessed the demise of past hit titles such as the Diablo series, the original Starcraft, and now unfortunately, Warcraft 3. It is unfortunate that Blizzard could care less if there is no longer the potential to reap income, but this is one of the sad realities of life. Peruse the top 20 of any realm and it is a safe bet to assume that over half of them are using map hacks and/or disconnect hacks. No longer is it a close knit community where player tags are recognized and respected as skillful top ladder players. Now, it is a bunch of “no-name” parasites who abuse hacks to make their way to the top. This creates an increasingly frustrating environment for players who still enjoy playing the game the way it was meant to be.

Blizzard promised a patch, months ago, another unfortunate trait of theirs. They probably have forgotten they even made such a statement, as there has been little to no update on the progress of such patch. It is likely that titles such as World of Warcraft will receive multiple patches before they even make another post on the progress of a Warcraft 3 patch.

Basically, if you are a Warcraft fan, Blizzard is showing you the door. They really do not care if anyone plays this title anymore, as they have their eyes set on bigger money. Hopefully Starcraft II Beta will be released soon enough and the RTS fans of the Blizzard community will have a game that is hacks/cheater free. Until then, tough luck.

Jun 9 , 2008.
For those of you that really enjoyed the important role that casters played in Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2 will not leave you disappointed. In addition to including the smartcasting system, they have also revamped several units including the ghost to counter them to prevent imbalance. The ghost can currently see units in the fog of war that have energy so he serves as a good detector for incoming caster raids. This gives players plenty of time to get their ghosts in position and subsequently utilize their snipe ability to take out the threat. Another aspect that they have decided to carry over from their previous RTS venture of Warcraft 3 is the concept of destructible obstacles such as rocks. These will most likely be implemented to block off valuable resource deposits forcing a player to expend considerable time to access them or find an alternate route. In previous testing periods, if you played Protoss, you could also be creative and use the Anti-Gravity spell to lift them into the air and sneak in some probes to start up your expansion. Then after the duration of the spell has expired, the barrier crashes back to the ground providing a natural defense for you. However, the development team has titled this as a bug and terminated this option.

The Nullifier (Anti-Gravity unit) still is a formidable unit when used en masse. As the same suggests, they are able to “nullify” the effects of powerful enemy units such as Siege Tanks and Ultralisks by lifting them into the air and effectively taking them out of the combat field. This should definitely be looked at closely for balance issues, because the ability sounds very similar to the Warcraft 3 Druid of the Talon’s Cyclone ability which Blizzard made far too powerful in certain matchups.

More information on the Terran Reaper’s Detonation Charges that were mentioned in the previous article: These mines are visible upon their deployment, but a skilled player might deploy them in the midst of an enemy mass where it would be difficult to target them during a skirmish; which could prove to be fatal to their entire unit. They are extremely small and it would take a player of extreme skill to be able to micromanage well enough to focus fire kill them before their detonation. They damage enemies and friends alike so caution should be used rather than randomly throwing them out. Unlike the original Spider Mines, they do not detonate other mines when they go off. Instead of having a limited supply of mines, the ability has a 30 second cool down, and they currently do 30 damage plus an additional 30 to armored units/buildings.

May 29, 2008. For those of you who were fans of the Terran Vulture’ Spider Mines from the original game, it must have been a devastating blow when you received news that the Vulture got scrapped. However, fear not! Blizzard has equipped the Terrans with more than sufficient means of showering opponents in shrapnel. The Reaper, the Terran jet-boosted super infantry unit, comes armed with D-8 Demolition charges so you can blast enemy units and buildings alike to your hearts content. They have some nasty splash damage on them also; so if you are into team killing or just sadistically enjoy seeing your troops get ripped apart, this is the unit for you.

Due to popular demand, Blizzard attempted to bring mines back into the Terran game strategy by giving the Nomad the ability to deploy stationary Mine Drones. However, this has been scrapped and in the current build, the Nomad can now deploy Spider Mines of its own. Yes, this means that a flying unit can now deploy mines all over the map, look out melee units! A few details on these revamped Spider mines, their movement behavior is the same, but now they do 50 damage as well as an additional 50 towards armored units; and instead of being limited to only 3 mines, they now cost 15 energy a piece, so you can plant limitless amounts of mine fields pending sufficient energy resources.

Although this is still undergoing relentless testing by the development team, it appears that Blizzard has every intention of keeping this minefield based warfare in the game. This should prove to be an excellent counter for smarter players to tech to in order to counter masses of weak Tier 1 melee units.