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Starcraft News for Dec. 31st

Map of the Week
Blizz released the new map, Christmas Rush for StarCraft or Brood War! It's a trigger driven map with special victory conditions and modified units for 2-4 players. Sounds cool and in the spirit of things it's shaped like a Christmas tree. Print the Enlarged Map View now. Enjoy :)

Hearken back with us to those fond memories from childhood when unwrapping presents was a manic and enjoyable time laden with excitement and suspense. Now, imagine placing that joy and enchantment smack dab in the middle of Blizzard's .scm of the week! The result -- Christmas Rush, where you compete to see who can open the most presents. The best part about THESE presents is that they're both fun and functional since you can use them to stop the other players from taking more of YOUR presents! To top it all off, keep a sharp lookout for jolly old St. Nick who just may be stopping by to see if you are being naughty or nice. Happy Holidays from Blizzard Entertainment!
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Myth II Recalled
Bungie made an official announcement to recall Myth II: Soulblighter due to a problem with the Uninstaller. Short version - If you've installed it in a directory other than the default(/Myth2) don't UNINSTALL it using the Unistaller, it could be very nasty for you. Expect a new uninstaller to be released soon. Read the official announcement Myth II Installer Problemsto get more info and instructions on how to uninstall it if you have to. There's also a little more info up at CGO [news source - Blues News and CGO]

New Wallpapers
Blizz put up a couple new ones. Samir Duran and a shot from the Zerg Bonus mission available in the Christmas version also.

Brood War FAQ Updated
Shlonglor has posted he updated the BW FAQ. Here's the post to help you decide if it's worthy of a click :)

The Brood War F.A.Q. has been updated. Many questions and answers have been reworded and it has been made more current after the Brood War release.

GFraizer(Shlonglor)
Web Designer

USA vs Canada Tournament
FuzzyBear has started a BW tourney with a little twist. He's created a US team and a Canadian team from some top notch players and will report on the games and etc. Kind of a drag it's not open to the public but it could be fun to read the reports. Here's his post on it. The team captains are Zileas(USA) and Stratus(CAN). It starts today and ends Jan 1st. All battle reports will be posted at FuzzyTheBear's StarCraft Excellence Page.

Y2K Stuff
Shlonglor's Everything But Games page has some cool info up on the Y2k bug. There's an article at ABC News that looks at how different countries are preparing for it. Here's a quick look at expected failure rates of major companies.

USA 15% Taiwan 33% Germany 50% Saudi Arabia 50%

India 50% Japan 50% China 66% Russia 66%

Read more at ABC News or check out Shlonglor's page for some interesting comments from Wynns and Mutant.

Kali for Brood War
Kali released ver1.60 last week. This one adds support or NBA Live 99, the Ancient Conquest Demo, SC Brood War and more options. Grab your upgrade here.

Star Trek TC
Camelot Systems is hosting a StarTrek TC. You can view a couple screens here to see if it interests you. I have to admit it looks pretty cool :) They're currently working on a Borg Cube and Klingon Vessel. Check out the Star Trek TC homepage for more info.

Changes to SCM of the Week
With the addition of Brood War maps (which will be .scx) Blizz is changeing the SCM of the week to Map of the Week. Get more info on the changes in this post.

Starcraft News for Dec. 29th

As you probably noticed the page was hacked. I was finally able to speak to someone at Angelfire tonight and get it back. Sorry for the inconvenience and annoyance this caused you. Thanks to everyone that mailed and msg'd me, your support was/is appreciated.

Chaplin, the guy whose page this one was redirecting to, mailed me. I thought I'd go ahead and post his email so you can read what he has to say about it.

After several complaints accusing me of hacking into some starcraft, I managed to get your url. I saw your page today and it redirected me to my page. I can only assure you that I haven't done it.

I'm really sorry about all this and I hope you get your page back.

Good Luck
Chaplin
chaplin_hack@hotmail.com
https://www.angelfire.com/id/chaplinhack

I guess you can stop flaming him now. If your wondering where his page went, Angelfire deleted it. I didn't ask them to do that, I guess it's their policy.

Starcraft News for Dec. 24th

I've decided to take a break and enjoy the holidays. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and that the New Year is your best ever! Now go hug someone you love....

*wink*
~ tender fury ~
p.s. here's two last tidbits for ya b4 I go :)

CorrectionI recived this in email about the Secret Zerg Mission in Brood War. Sorry for the mistake. Thanks to Anperson for the info :)

The secret zerg level can be activated only if destroy the protoss base within 10 minutes on zerg level 9 and the next level should be called "Dark Origin"

Radio Free ZergKing Arthur at Camelot Systems has the Radio Free Zerg Music Track up. Here's the email on it.

I just wanted to quickly inform you all that I extracted, compressed, and uploaded the 3 new music tracks for Brood War and have posted them on the site. In addition I also put up the new Zerg bonus track - Radio Free Zerg. Thanks.

Download them at Camelot Systems now :)

Starcraft News for Dec. 23rd

Something to Laugh About
This page by Lame King is lol funny. Check it out! Thanks to gAMBITT at SS for the heads up on this page :)

New Wallpapers
I guess Blizz is in the Christmas spirit :) They updated the Wallpaper page with many many many new wallpapers. Go pick your poison and decorate the old monitor. Seriously tho, there's some awesome scenes here.

Secret Level in Brood War
Blizz stuck an extra Zerg level in Brood War. According to SC.Org if you take out the Protoss base in 30 min you'll activate "The Reckoning".

Brood War Cheat Codes and Secret Theme Music
Game Sages has the cheat codes for BW up allready. Guess what? They're the same as for SC ;) BUT they also say that there's a secret Zerg Theme Song. To hear it you must be playing Zerg, then press ENTER, type "radio free zerg" and press ENTER again.

That New Map Hack has a Little Bonus
I find this soooo funny :) Here's something Mick posted concerning the map hack...

Can't connect to battle.net? read on
This is for all of you who have always been able to connect to battle.net, but now mysteriously cannot. Or, if when you do connect, there are only a few people online. I only have one this to say...stop using the map hack you cheater! Some versions of the new 1.04 map hack tweak your server list and will force you to connect to a private, non-Blizzard server. So, now because of your lack of sportsmanship; your username, password, and cd-key has been compromised. Have a nice day.
Mick
Blizzard Entertainment

Mick did post a fix for this but also warns the hackers are probably stealing your cd-key, username and password.

Brood War Screens and Review
SC Legacy's Death Viper has put up a slew of BW screenshots. After your done with those, you can read their review by EnforcerMan here or Chapter 9 in Aeon of Strife.

Episode IV, Protoss Campaign
Episode V, Terran Campaign
Episode VI, Zerg Campaign
New Antioch, Shakuras
The UED Fleet
A Battlecruiser brawl. (Yes, this is part of a mission)
Zerg infested Tarsonis
Devastated Korhal
A few Star Wars references in the Sand tileset
Goodbye, Edmund Duke
Beautiful planet Shakuras
A good look at Char
Bonus Level!!!
Zerg casualties calculated in the billions

Why Santa! I didn't know you carried weapons!
Blizz put up a new Christmas Scene at their site. It's pretty cool, give it a peek.

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