What Do Girl Gamers Want?
I added a new editorial to the features page in response to PCGamers article, "Inside a Girl Gamers Head". Always interested in ppl's opinions so if you feel like a debate go check it out :)Chapter 6
Wargasm has added chapter 6 to " Wargasms Tale " ! Great as always Wargy :) If u feel like laugh, give it a read :)Tomb Raider Fans
Ian Livingstone, chairman for Eidos let it slip in an interview that Tomb Raider III would be released this November and Tomb Raider IV in 1999. He states they will release a high-quality action figure soon also. For more go here.New SC Cheat Code
Type noglues in the message area and it disallows the players enemies to use spells.Chat With Bill Roper
Bill Roper will be in a chat session on Wednesday, April 8 at 5pm PST at the Games.net Chat Server discussing Starcraft. For more info go here.New Scums
SC Tech Base has put up 3 new scums. Grab The Zerg Migration (47 KB) , Team War (44 KB) , and Battle for the Middle (116 KB) here.StarCraft Installer Patch
If your having problems installing SC and getting install.exe Error 21 drop by the Tech Support Section and download the patch.Are you Duke enough??
If your a Duke Nukem fan why not enter the Virtual Casting Call Contest.Did u say Beta??
There are several betas now that u can sign up for. Go here for a list.GreetBot
GreetBot is like the Hal9000 "bot" Blizz has hanging out in channel 'The Void'. If you'd like to try programming one of your own, download GreetBot, he's a freebie from Blizz.New SC Cheat Code
Type operation cwal in the message area and u get build fast. These codes only work in single player mode.New Sections Added
I added the Keyboard Shortcuts and the Single Player Cheat Codes to the Gameplay section. Check em out !Starship Titanic Released
I usually find these type games just plain frustrating (remembers Return to Zork *shiver*) but this one does sound funny. You can check the game out in detail at Starship Titanic.Worlds Worst Pirate
Some crooks are so dumb u just have to LOL !! Read the NGO article here.Inside a girl gamers head - what do girl gamers want??
Well, being one I can answer that question....we want great games! duh!?!? And personally replayability is very important to me. Amy Ng, editor of PC Games, wrote an article on what it takes to attract female gamers. While this is probably obvious to most ppl, it's still eludes some. I mean, do we really need more Barbie stuff?? Read the article here. If u have any comments on this, mail me. I'd love to hear them.Public Beta
Eidos new RTS game, Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3, is available for download as a public beta test. Grab it here.Keep Those CD Keys Safe People
Gamespot reports there is a site advertising to send u the cheats for SC if u send them your cd key # . Not a good idea since only one person can play with a cd code at a time, u could find yourself blocked from b.net. Read the article here. Luckily not too many ppl fell for this scam.TC Patch #6 Released
The latest TC WarCraft2 patch is out. Download it here. Requires TC WarCraft2 v1.4 or higher and all 5 previous patches. Download #1-5 here.A Sad Sad Post
Area S made a not so funny April fools joke and posted that they were shutting down because Blizzard was suing them. I guess several ppl took this serious. One person even sent his StarCraft game back! Well at least thats what he posted, I hope he really didn't. Read the post here. and Bill Roper's response here. Seems Blizz missed the humor in AreaS's post, and i have to agree with them.Ratings Correction for StarCraft
StarCraft has an official "Teen" rating, but all the collectors boxes say Mature "M 17+" rating. Future boxes should have this corrected.Mac StarCraft
I'm not even going to get into posting release date rumors for Mac SC but Bill Roper did make a forum post on it. All i have to say is I'll believe it when I see it. He does state the same team is working on it that worked on Mac Diablo. WORKED ?? Funny, I didn't know Mac Diablo was done and shipped?? (sarcasm intended) :pSC Cheat Code
Hit enter and type Show me the money in the message area. This will get u an additional 10,000 minerals and gas.Official opening of Yahoo! Games
Users can play the free, Java-based games with anyone connected to the Internet, and can keep up with the world of games through news and info offerings on the site. Yahoo! Games requires no extra plug-ins and offers multi-player, multi-level access to some classic, casual card and board games like Bridge, Backgammon, Checkers and Chess.Station 17 Hacked ?
I was just doing the morning surf when i went over to Station 17 and all the sudden was "magically" transported to someplace called Flemerks's AOE Pages. Hope they get it fixed soon.Starcraft Gold Disc Disappears!
Gamespot got into the April Fools spirit when they posted an article saying Blizz lost the master gold! That's kinda sick ya know?? hehehe ;) View it hereFeedback
I posted new emails in response to the "Does Sex Sale?" article. You can view them here.Sorry for the lack of news yesterday but
I got the game and well, u know, on to bnet :) The game looks great and the Zerg look awesome!! Think I'll definitely start with them, they killed me so well yesterday :) hehehe Oh! and if anyone is intersted the cd and manual cover to the game both feature the Protoss regardless which box you choose. Looks just like the Protoss box cover art.StarCraft Now In Stores !!
It's official, Blizz updated their page last night with this announcement :
Blizzard Entertainment announced this afternoon that Starcraft, the company's highly anticipated real-time strategy game, is now starting to hit stores in the United States and Canada.To read the entire announcement and just so u know it's not some lame April fools joke click here. Well I'm off to try and get my copy now. Cya on b.net :)
Babbages Expecting SC tomorrow !!
In fact they are getting 2 seperate shipments in, and another on Friday! Bnet here I come !!Congrats to T'kron are in order!!
Seems not only did he make the ladder rankings but he was also one of the lucky 20 chosen from the beta to recieve a free copy of StarCraft!! Great job T'kron :) and pssst, over here ... think u can get me in the Diablo2 beta now ?? hehehe :)Blizz confirms shipping date!!
PC Gamer has this news blurb up:Electronics Boutique says that it will have copies of Starcraft in stores tomorrow, despite the fact that the game only went gold master last Friday. A spokesperson for Blizzard verified this, indicating that Cendant Software has a very quick turnaround from gold master to retail shelves. Other stores should have copies this week, as well. Still, call ahead.Ladder Results and Chat Commands
Blizz has updated the announcement page with the Battle.net Chat Commands and The Beta Test Ladder Results. The top 5 players in order are
- Blacklizard
- EnoYls
- Silentbob
- Proteus
- Liquid
T'kron came in #436 !! Congrats to all :)
STARCRAFT SHIPS! ! !
It's true I guess. I just saw this over at EB World :March 30 1998 - Blizzard Entertainment has announced that STARCRAFT will be shipping tomorrow.NO APRIL FOOLS JOKE HERE FOLKS
Our contacts at Blizzard tell us today that STARCRAFT is shipping from the distributor tomorrow and will be in ALL EB stores by Wednesday April 1stBlizzard's putting the shrink-wrap seals on
Blizz is shrink-wrapping the first batch of Starcraft boxes and Gamespot is reporting Blizz received the first shipment of SC and some stores could have StarCraft today! Blizz is showing SC as "currently available" so maybe it's true, although I'm sure not everyone will receive it today. Here's the article :Starcraft Rumors Check Out
The Torrence, California, office of Starcraft publisher Blizzard Entertainment is a busy place today. The Starcraft team received a little over 600 of the precious Starcraft disks from its Utah duplication facility. As GameSpot News went to press on Monday, Blizzard said finishing touches were being put on the disks that had come back from the duplication facility that day.In the best of all possible worlds, retail locations will see Starcraft boxes on Wednesday. But Blizzard is cautioning gamers to remain realistic: It's very likely that even if some retailers receive games on Wednesday, it will be a small number of locations.
Gamers will want to call their local retailers before gassing up their cars or revving up their mountain bikes and heading out to the mall.
HAL9000 Invades Bnet
Sta17 received an email from Venom that's kind of interesting. Seems a bot calling himself Hal 9000 has invaded b.net. HAL9000 was the super computer that went a little nuts in 2001: A Space Odyssey :) Here's Venom's emailOn Battle.net in channel "The Void" there is some sort of bot named HAL9000. You can whisper to him and he gives patterned responses back. If you use the /whois command it tells you he is logged on from a gateway, and someone said his IP is 0.0.0.0. If you ask him who he is, he says, "Who I am is not important...". If you swear at him he squelches you. It is kinda weird, thought you might wanna post it and see if anyone knows what it is.SC Review
Rocketdownload has a review of SC up. Covers game description, campaign editor, scoring, storyline, unit and race descriptions for all 3 races, and more. Read it here.Blizz Gets in the Gold Spirit
Blizz updated their main page with a new pic when SC went gold. If u never saw it check it out here. If u never saw the official Blizz announcement my sympathies, u must have been in a coma, but now that your awake u can still see it here.In Stores When?
On a totally useless note I decided to check out some of the game store sites to see when they said SC would ship. EB World and Cyberian Outpost both say March 31st. Blizzard Sales simply says " now available. " When i called Babbages to see if they were still expecting the game in tomorrow, they said it had been pushed back to April, and they didn't have an exact date yet. ah well, i knew it was a waste of time when i started :) heheheDiablo2 preview at OGR
Covers character classes, monsters, storyline and blizzard addressing the cheating/hacking issues on bnet. only new info i found in this article was that blizz is thinking of supporting 8 player games and that they have increased the viewing screen area, and that diablo2 should be 4 times the size of diablo. The game will consist of four separate acts," says Roper. "The first act is roughly the same size as all of the original Diablo."Starstats Opens
theHutt, the guy who makes all those statistical analysis posts, has opened his own page Starstats.It will, and I quote " provide the most comprehensive battle.net stats to date."Statbox v0.9
Rob has finished the latest version of The Statbox. Download it here. Visit the Statbox site for more ingo.You like Diablo??
Wargasm's Tale has been updated with a couple new chapters! if u hate Wirt your going to love the new additions. heheheTomb Raider Gold In Stores
Contains four new levels for the original TR game. If u have the original TR u can download the levels at: hereShareware RPG Released
Spiderweb Software has released their new shareware RPG Blades of Exile. The game contains three full-length adventures and comes with the Blades of Exile Scenario Editor, a program which lets anyone create fully featured Exile scenarios, complete with custom monsters, graphics, dialogue, and special encounters. These scenarios can be placed on the Internet and played by anyone. This site is worth a look.Total Annihilation Map and Scenairo editors Released
Download them here. Get more info hereGameLaunch3D Released
The latest addition to the Gamespy3D family is live. Download GameLaunch3D now. Get more info here.Quake Help
Hone your Quake 2 multiplayer skills with Eraser Bot.STARCRAFT GOES GOLD !!!
It's March 27th and she's officially GOLD !! The game should begin hitting stores nationwide within 7-10 days. Read Official Blizzard Announcement. Babbages/Software Etc. are expecting to recieve their copies on March 31st. Pre-orders guaranteed. Lets Rock People !! Man am i glad i looked one more time :)Blizz Puts Stop Rumors
After all the rumors yesterday Blizzard officially stated that it will make the post at THEIR site first, so if u don't see it there don't believe it. Here's the announcement:
As a point of clarification, Blizzard Entertainment has not authorized any web site or on-line magazine to make any product release announcement before it appears on the Blizzard web site. While we fully expect most on-line sites to post their announcement very soon after ours goes up, we want you to hear about our games here FIRST. - Blizzard EntertainmentAnyone else wonder if Susan Wooley really puts her foot in her mouth that often or do the gaming "news" sites just make this stuff up ?? :\ ( see yesterdays news )
New StarCraft Forum
Blizzard added the SCM Development forum yesterday. People have allready begun posting. Check it out!Update - StarCraft has NOT gone gold.
I can't say that came as a surprise :\ This from OGR :OGR has confirmed with Blizzard spokesperson Susan Wooley that Blizzard is "still testing gold master candidates". Wooley went on to say that all major gaming sites will be notified an hour before Blizzard makes the official announcement themselves. [1:35 PM ET]Oh goodie, I know i feel better now.... I mean all those gaming sites never get it wrong... LOL And on the tacky side Gamecenter took down their original post from this morning and changed it to read :
Susan Wooley, spokesperson at Blizzard Entertainment, shared this news: "StarCraft will go gold in the next day or so." Gamecenter will report back when the game is ready to ship.Yep my confidence is restored ....NOT!
SC Strats
Blacklizard, the #1 rated player in the Ladder System has made a forum post "Some Strats and general analy. of SC". If u haven't read it yet this one is worth the time.SC Finger
Shafes has put up a little thing called the SC Finger. You type in a SC username and it will give you their stats. Sounds ok, but its a little buggy. They're working on it though.Rumors start again
Gamecenter is reporting that an inside source at Blizzard told them SC is done and will ship today or tomorrow. Hmmm would be nice but I wouldn't bet the house on it. Read the article.Looking for a new soundcard?
Gamecenter reviews 11 sound cards. They put them through the meatgrinder and tell u which is worth it and which belongs in the scrap heap. Read the Review.New Game Releases
PC Gamer reported that F-15 from Jane's Simulations, the Dark Reign expansion pack, and the re-release of Wolfenstein 3D should all have hit the stores yesterday.Everything you ever wanted to know about StarCraft
OGR has posted a huge article, "Inside the StarCraft Beta Test". Theres complete coverage of all the races as well as general impressions of the game, some strategy tips, and dozens of new screenshots! Get comfy, grab a coke, pop a beer, whatever peels your banana, and read this thing ;)SC Release Soon
Gamesmania spoke with Blizzard's PR rep Susan Wooley. She states that they are testing candidates for Gold Masters. She also said although multiplayer is great the " single player stuff rocks " as well. Read article here.Features Section Added
I added a new Features section today. This section isn't Starcraft related, it's mainly a personal section for me where I post articles I find interesting and ask for feed back. If I get enough responses I'll post them, so take a sec and check it out. Feel free to send me articles that u find of interest also. Hey, SC isn't everything. *gasp* Did i just say that ?? :)
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