Gaming tournaments generally cater to the best of the best, the gaming elite; those gamers who’re not only blessed with supernatural talent, but also the time to level up their skills to the realm of the ungodly. We’ve already told you how Deviation Gaming’s Academy will help players become better at all facets of eSports – and now they’re launching a StarCraft II tournament for those who’re good, but want to be better.
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StarCraft II Profile: Robert ‘PandaTank’ Botha
Robert Botha will face off against Silviu "NightEnD" Lazar, a Protoss player from Romania currently playing for world renowned gaming organisation Fnatic, in an officially sanctioned MSSA match at the StarCraft 2 Invitational Tournament hosted by Megarom and Internet Solutions. This match will be the Feature Match of the event which our country's twelve best players will attend an 16 March. Let's take a look at one of South Africa's most prolific StarCraft 2 player's profile.
Rain dominates Flash in MLG semi final
In a gruelling Protoss versus Terran battle, Rain has secured his spot in the Major League Gaming Tournament of Champions finals.
SC2 Heart of the Swarm release date confirmed
Blizzard has confirmed the release date of StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm and detailed the Deluxe and Collector’s Editions.
Global Play coming to Starcraft 2
Blizzard has announced that they’ll be adding Global Play in an upcoming patch in the coming months. This means that players will now be able to access game servers in other regions, expanding the possibilities for eSports.
eSports Wrap-up: PandaTank arrives in Paris, Bravado dominates in Dota 2
As you can imagine, I wasn’t quite as excited to do the eSports Wrap-up today because u no love them and I’ve gotten strike two for it being the least popular and if I get strike three the team is going to make me do unspeakably horrifying things! So I just might be sealing my fate with this article, but hopefully you’ll be super awesome and help me escape this terrible doom.
eSports Spotlight: A look at local StarCraft II superstar PandaTank
Robert ‘PandaTank’ Botha has made name for himself by persevering in his StarCraft II career, taking the leap to competing internationally and putting S.A on the map of international pro gamers.
Pro gamers gone wild: Here we go again
Another week, another eSports scandal. The international spotlight has been heavy on professional gamers lately, from developers focusing their new games on eSports to cheating in world championships, all eyes are on professional gamers. StarCraft II pro gamer Ilyes “Stephano” Satouri, a member of well-known pro gaming clan Evil Geniuses has been suspended for the rest of October for saying he had “abused” a 14 year old during a livestreamed game.
StarCraft II expansion 99% complete
According to Blizzard, the middle of the three slices that make up the entirety of StarCraft II is nearing completion. Lead designer Dustin Browder, speaking to Kotaku, confirmed that Heart of the Swarm Is 99% complete.
FFD: Should sequels really try to innovate?
In videogames, sequels to hit games are pretty much an inevitability. there’s a certain expectation that gamers have of sequels. To paraphrase Epic’s CliffyB, gamers expect sequels to be bigger, better and more badass. One the one hand, you have games like the annualised Call of Duty which is, without fail, criticised by many for being nothing more than a glorious exercise in the wonders of cut and paste. Even the incredible Starcraft II was lambasted by many for being too much like the first game, just with the application of a shiny coat of paint.
On the other, you have releases like Metroid Other M, Max Payne 3 and Diablo III - which while excellent games, have been blasted by some fans as straying too far from the established formula - and just not “feeling” like their predecessors.
If Max Payne 3 doesn’t feel like Max Payne, and Diablo III doesn’t feel like Diablo II, should the whiners then just go and play Max Payne I and Diablo II respectively - or should developers pander to fans, keeping things as they are - just updating them for newer hardware?
Activision wants more from Blizzard in the next three years
Do you remember in the summer of 2010 how PC gamers got excited about the leaked Blizzard release schedule? Well the rumour mill is again starting to churn.
GamesCom 2011 – Interview with StarCraft 2’s Jonny Ebbert
I had the chance to sit down with Starcraft 2’s Senior Designer, Jonny Ebbert, for an interview at GamesCom, and what a pleasure it was. A genuinely nice guy who is always looking out for gamers, we started chatting about what to expect with the next StarCraft 2 expansion, Heart of the Swarm.
Win actual money in Polarfluke’s StarCraft II Tournament
Fancy yourself as a bit of of a proficient StarCraft II player? Think you’re good enough to take on not just South Africa’s best, but a host of International players as well? Now’s your chance – and you can do it for more than just pride; the tournament winners will actually walk away with a real-life wad of cash.
Want to know why StarCraft Ghost died?
Yeah, we know, it’s a slow news day today - just give us a break. Still, this is somewhat newsworthy as the mere mention of StarCraft Ghost is enough to get bucket loads of Blizzard fans in a tizz. The head of Blizzard, Mike Morhaime, gave some insight into the methodologies the developer utilises when it comes to producing multiple titles at once: if things get too hectic, titles die. This happened to StarCraft Ghost.
Ghost was supposed to be a third-person stealth game where players took on the role of Nova, a Terran Ghost. Nova’s game got shelved in 2005 after it was announced in 2001, but Nova herself made an appearance in Wings of Liberty. The reason StarCraft Ghost got put on hold indefinitely was because another Blizzard game became way too popular.
Gameloft are now blatantly.. and I mean blatantly.. ripping off Starcraft 2
Gameloft are no strangers to claims of plagiarism and over the last while have ripped pretty much every AAA title that you can think of into mobile format.
However in this latest step I do think that they may have bitten off more than they can chew. Their latest title called Starfront: Collision is a 4 player iPhone RTS title which doesn’t only take some cues from Starcraft it pretty much copies the game entirely and changes a few words.
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