Video Games

Blizzard has officially announced, after much speculation, that it’s currently developing Starcraft II, a title that fans around the world hope will meet their ever-increasing expectations.

The president of Blizzard, Mike Morhaime says, “With StarCraft II, we’ll be able to do everything we wanted to do with the original StarCraft and more […] We recognize that expectations are high following the long-running popularity of the original game, but we plan to meet those expectations and deliver an engaging, action-packed, competitive experience that StarCraft players and strategy gamers worldwide will enjoy.” And, judging from the in-game screens, it looks like Starcraft 2, if nothing else, will adhere to the sort of visual and gameplay standards that Starcraft established.

Here are some of the official Starcraft II screenshots and concept art. Check out the official website for more Starcraft II multimedia (including official trailers) and downloads.

We can’t wait for this to drop!!!

If you’re looking for cheats and hacks for your dota game, or a Warcraft 3 scrimmage, you need to check out the incredible stash of utilities that shadowfrench has:

MapHack
NameSpoofer
NameSpooferPro
StatHack
VisionHack
1vs1Hack
1vs1MsgHack
FakePlayer
GameSeeker
CustomKick
CustomConfig
PassGrabber
CdKeyGrabber
IpSniffer
LossBot
SpamBot

The chance of getting banned is high, but then again we see things like Custom Kick used all the time to kick lamers. The Name Spoofer also gets used by a lot of players to change the colour of their Battle.net names. Hack away!

That’s right.  WoW: Burning Crusade, the official, and long-anticipated, expansion to World of Warcraft, is being released at many GameStop locations at midnight on January 16th, 12:01 AM.  Certain stores are pulling out all the stops for WoW: BC’s launch, with “costume contests, card game tournaments, screen-shot character judging, and more! Events will vary by location, check with your local store for more information.”

With more tweaks, including WTF mode becoming vote-only now, DotA 6.37 has been officially released.  You can download is here.  Now all that we have to wait for is DotA 6.37b or DotA 6.37 AI.  The change-log is as follows:

6.37
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* Fixed a big exploit with waveform
* Medusa’s Purge now deals 600 damage to summoned units, instead of instantly killing them
* Rebalanced Alchemist
* Reduced the Kobold Endurance Aura from 17% ms to 15% ms
* Hand of Midas IAS from 35% to 30%
* Cyclone on creeps from 20 to 10 seconds
* Reduced Primal Roar cooldown and Call of the Wild manacost
* Treads from +60 to +65 ms and from +30% ias to +35%
* Land Mines can now be properly seen on minimap
* WTF mode now requires voting
* Added a better cancel icon for Pulse Nova
* Increased Enchantress’s Intelligence per level
* Fixed a bug with -ar and -random that allowed you to get two heroes

So the two newest heros that were released in Dota 6.36, the Alchemist and the Warlock, have been officially nerfed. Still, check DotA Allstars 6.36b (not ai) out here.  The official change log is as follows:

6.36b
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* Fixed a Static Field bug and tweaked effect
* Nerfed Chemical Rage
* Reduced Gravekeeper’s Cloak a little bit more
* Less damage/armor on Acid Spray and a little more cooldown
* Slight base damage buff to Drow
* Reduced the max gold Greed can stack up to
* Soul Assumption early levels given a cooldown similar to the rest
* Fixed Purge tooltip
* Added status icon for Fatal Bonds on heroes
* Nerfed Fatal Bonds from 6/12/18/24 to 5/10/15/20
* Reduced Agility/Level on Spectre
* Lowered the recent XP deny changed a little
* Radiance damage reduced from 40 to 35
* Lowered Shadow Word damage on enemy a bit
* Nerfed Infernal a bit
* Added Shadow Word status icon
* Minor base damage nerf on Alchemist