We’re playing StarCraft II – LIVE!
To celebrate the release of StarCraft II (and to serve as a sneak peek for any among you waiting to play it), we’re playing and talking through as much of the Wings of Liberty campaign we can possibly push through at the office today. Work is hard.
Click within for an embedded video player, or just hop to our Ustream here.
Tuesday giveaway: SteelSeries StarCraft II Action Pack!
As part of our Week of Starcraft, we’re giving away awesome StarCraft II Action Packs from SteelSeries all week long! The action pack includes the StarCraft II-themed Zboard and the looks-tough-feels-soft Terran Marine mousepad.
Congratulations to Monday’s winner, Josh Littell of New York!
We’ve got more Action Packs to give away, so read on to enter in today’s giveaway.
Community heroes: StarCraft commentator Husky
This week on the site, we want to celebrate some of the heroes of the PC gaming community. People who’ve devoted huge amounts of their free time to making something awesome for the rest of us to enjoy. Today we’re talking to Mike Husky, whose commentary on competitive StarCraft 2 matches makes the bewildering action understandable, exciting and often funny for millions of gamers.
StarCraft II launchblog: plastic Kerrigan nightmares
StarCraft II happened, and it happened hardest in the Oxford Street branch of GAME at midnight last night. Tim and I were there to document the game’s launch event.
Melt your golden wrench for charity
The guy that holds golden wrench number 31 is melting his wrench for charity. He’s getting together with some of the other wrench holders and doing a sponsored Australium-melting session on the 31st of August, and the 20 highest-rolling chariteers will get to join him in the server. Here’s a video that sums it up nicely:
Valve ban 12,000 people by mistake, apologise
Steam had a little hiccup over the past few weeks. For about 12,000 people, it confused an out-of-date dll with some sort of elite hacking tool, and VAC-banned those unfortunate gamers. Valve apologised by reversing the bans and, as a peace offering, giving each person two copies of Left 4 Dead 2.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine announced
It’s got a Space Marine in it, he fights Orks, it’s a third person shooter, it’s being made by Relic, and THQ have confirmed that it’s coming to PC. You may now open the envelope marked “excite.” We’ve got some screens and a trailer below, but if you’re some sort of Ork-rights activist, you should probably sit down first.
StarCraft II released, new trailer
Some sort of space game was released today? I can’t believe this slipped under the PCG radar. Apparently it’s quite popular in Korea, although I can’t see it’ll have much impact over here. I’ve embedded a trailer of it below, and I must say, those video-smiths have certainly come on since I was a lad! It looks amazing! Still, I’m sure “StarCraft 2″ looks nothing like this:
Monday giveaway: SteelSeries StarCraft II Action Pack!
As part of our Week of Starcraft, we’re giving away awesome StarCraft II Action Packs from SteelSeries all week long! The action pack includes the StarCraft II-themed Zboard and the looks-tough-feels-soft Terran Marine mousepad.
Congratulations to Sunday’s winner, Riley McGee of California!
We’ve got more Action Packs to give away, so read on to enter in today’s giveaway.
Community heroes: Garry Newman, for Garry’s Mod
This week on the site, we want to celebrate some of the heroes of the PC gaming community. People who’ve devoted huge amounts of their free time to making something awesome for the rest of us to enjoy. Some of them, like today’s hero, were so successful that they’ve been able to go professional. But all of them started by doing something for nothing, and this us doffing our journalist caps to that. Today we’re talking to Garry Newman, the creator of the amazing physics and face-posing playground Garry’s Mod.
StarCraft II launch day guide
Why do big games always come out on Tuesdays? Don’t publishers know that most of us have work or school then, and that now we have to weasel our way out of multiple obligations so that we can enjoy the game as quickly and thoroughly as humanly possible?
Despair not, fair gamer, for here is PC Gamer’s guide to launch day gaming, full of tips and tricks for ensuring that come tomorrow, you’ll be able to enjoy StarCraft II to its fullest.
Pixel Breakout returns: psychedelia below
This is variously auto-translated as “destroying particles,” “particles breaking,” and “breaking particle.” It’s Breakout, but with two important differences: each block you break becomes another ball you can bounce back up, and the blocks are only one pixel wide. It starts off slow. It doesn’t stay like that.
StarCraft II Q&A: Everything you need to know
StarCraft II launches tomorrow, but we’re still hearing lots of questions and uncertainty about the game and Blizzard’s new Battle.net mutliplayer service. We’re here to tackle those questions head-on. Read on to find the answers to every question on your mind, from LAN play to Real ID to custom maps and more.
Avert disaster: prep your PC for StarCraft II now
Picture it: you’re holding a box containing StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty in your hands. You’ve waited 12 years for this day. You feel the weight of it, the crispness and shine of the freshly-printed cardboard, the sweet scent of the Best Buy stock room. You gingerly peel off the sticker sealing the top of the box closed (you wouldn’t want to damage that box, now would you?) and spill the contents on your PC desk. The DVD goes in the drive. You can barely stand the anticipation as you watch the install bar fill up. It’s done. You double-click the desktop icon.
The last thing you want to deal with at this exact moment is a problem you could’ve headed off the day before. Now’s your chance: let’s go through five quick and easy steps to ensure that tomorrow’s launch is everything you’ve just imagined it could be.
Alien Swarm update nerfs Tesla Cannon
Look, there’s something you should know. It’s about Tesla Cannon. Valve did something to her. It’s not nice.
