Scums Wanted
SoundsAV over at The Game Cage wanted me to pass along that he's starting a scum section and would like your scums :) There's 2 new scums posted, War Games and Run for the Border. They sound pretty cool :) Grab them and get more info here.Resource Management: The True Test of a Jedi
This is StarShacks latest SC Strategy tip from Chaplan. Looks like another good one.Unofficial Expansion Packs
Saw over at SC.Org that some guys have made some unofficial expansion packs and they're up for download. Here's the blurb they put out.Genius Soft's Expansion packs released two new packs this week. Rise of the cerebrates contains 9 missions unlike Wars of the Alliance that had 15 and Reality Twist has 5 missions for Multiplayer purposes only. Reality Twist has been tested on Battle Net. Black Gargoyle(Keep in mind that we are not official) http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Ring/3909/index.htm
I went to this site, and none of the links work. I find this strange... However if u really want them... I viewed source and got the links :) Use them at your own risk, I don't know these ppl. If anything goes wrong with these, don't mail me .. mail them at gsoft@altavista.net
Reality Twist Version 1.00
Rise of the cerebrates Version 1.00
Wars of the alliance Version 1.02Urban Assault Beta Signups
If u want to beta test it u better hurry. Sign up at : Microsoft or scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll see links to about 20 other sites to sign up from. Read the little blurb there, it says that the beta program sign up will appear randomly at the sites and only 10 ppl from each site will get in. Good luck :)For Netscape browser business, suits may be too late
Blizzard Sues Micro Star
Blizz announced today that it is suing MicroStar, the company that released the SC expansion pack Stellar Forces. Here's the announcement :
"Today, in an effort to protect our brand and to ensure the quality of products purchased by our customers, Blizzard filed a lawsuit against Micro Star Software in connection with the sale and distribution of Stellar Forces, an unauthorized Starcraft add-on product. Blizzard believes that by using Starcraft's campaign editor for commercial purposes, Micro Star has violated the end user license agreement and is in breach of contract.We believe that we must aggressively combat the sale and distribution of unauthorized add-ons associated with our properties. In our opinion, Stellar Forces meets neither Blizzard's standards nor our customers' expectations. As gamers ourselves, we feel obligated to prevent the sale of unauthorized add-on products that do not add value to the Starcraft experience."
OGR spoke with Susan Wooley (uh oh girl) about this. She states Micro Star, and others, was warned not to do this. Read what she had to add to the announcement here. Hmmmm, I'm starting to wonder whats in the water in California.... yeah yeah I know they got a right to sue, but i'm getting sick of all these lawsuits.
New Poll
Sort of on the same subject :) - Gamers Alliance asking Are Mission Packs worth the time and money? Several answers to choose from. Take the poll.Nintendo Acquires StarCraft
Nintendo of America Inc. announced today its acquisition of exclusive console rights to StarCraft(TM), the best-selling new PC game from Blizzard Entertainment. Read the Infoseek article here.Little Chat with Bill Roper
Troilus was lucky enough to run into Bill Roper and asked him a few questions. He asked about the StarHack issue, Zerg superiority, Disconnects vs. Losses, and what his Favorite Race is. Read the post here.StarEdit Tutuorial
Shiva of Scum.net has written a tutorial on how unit creation works in StarEdit. View it here. [source - SC Org ]Cool Site :)
Majestic View is a site i find hard to catagorize. And despite the name it's not a graphics page, although I would view it with the graphics turned on. NezziR emailed me and I noticed he had a web page, so I thought why not check it out :) This page has nothing to do with SC and NezziR's got a totally in your face sense of humor so if your offended easily, maybe u should skip it.Paintball Tourney Update
The Anti Cheaters Guild (ACG) has opened registration for the paintball tournament. The tournament is going to be played on the Laser Tag v4.2 map. Anyone can play, teams will be four player, one of whom is the Captain. Head over to ACG for more info, map downloads and to register.TechBase Tournament Update
Techbase still has 30-40 slots open in it's SC Tournament. They're giving away two Riva 128 video cards, one for the winners of each of the brackets. More info and sign up here.Secret Missions in SC ?
I heard from Gaming Zone that there've been rumors of secret missions in SC with other races.. yeah i thought what the heck and clicked the link. Yep of course it's a joke but i'm sure there are ppl that will be looking for these secret missions a year from now. The secret cow level still sucks in newbies for Diablo :) hehehe View it here.For the X-Files Fans
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, star as FBI agents Mulder and Scully in Fox Interactive's forthcoming live-action adventure game, The X-Files. Virtual Cinema technology allows you to team up with Agents Mulder and Scully along with other featured characters from the television series. THE X-FILES will be available in June 1998 for both Windows 95 and Power Macintosh versions. [source - UGO]EverQuest Preview
OGR has an preview of EverQuest up. It's an online RPG that is paying extreme detail to 3D graphics. EverQuest is currently in closed beta testing, but Sony Interactive predicts that an open beta testing period will begin sometime in the first quarter of 1998. Read it here. [source - Lanhdanan's Billboard]Unreal is Gold
Unreal has gone gold and is in manufacturing now. It should be in stores by Memorial Day Weekend.
Sin's on the Web
Activision opened it's Sin Website today. This is a first person action game where the plot and it's characters change according to your actions. Multiplayer deathmatches powered by an enhanced Quake II engine. It sounds kinda cool and there's a lot of new screenshots. Is it just me or is that a very sexy pic on that box ? :)SC hits #1
PC Gamer reports that SC moved from 3rd to 1st place in the PC game charts for April sales. "These figures are courtesy of PC Data, and are based on units sold by forty-two retail chains, representing more than 70% of the U.S. market."SC Font Pack
I've added the SC Font Pack by EXoDuS to the Downloads section for permanent downloading pleasure. View the font here. Download all the fontshere.Printable Map Page Moves
Lazlo has moved his map page to TWoS, so you might want to update your bookmarks. These maps are printable. Get them here.TheGeneral's 51-Game Winning Streak Ends!
Saw this over at StarLadder and thought i'd pass it on. 51 straight wins... I'm impressed.The top-ranked player, TheGeneral, ended his amazing fifty-one game winning streak late Sunday afternoon when he lost to Villert in their first match together. The match took place on "The Lost Temple" and lasted only six minutes with TheGeneral losing twenty Zerg units while Villert lost seven.If u want more info on the game, head over to StarLadder.SC MP3's for Download
Matrox has SC music in MP3 format for u. You'll need WinAmp to play it. (it's free) Go get the MP3's now :)For the Quake Fans
Got this in my news letter today and thought it might interest some of ya'll.QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero is published by id Software, distributed by Activision, Inc. and designed by Rogue Entertainment. This same creative team created QUAKE Mission Pack No. 2: Dissolution of Eternity. QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, designed for Windows 95/98 and NT machines, offers gamers a chance to blast new QUAKE II monsters in 15 new levels with new weaponry, new units and new power-ups. This official mission pack for QUAKE II is expected to be available this summer.Making Headlines
Microsoft talks collapse, antitrust lawsuit likely
*** Related: As Microsoft power grows, so do legal battles
*** Related: Gates says will continue to seek settlementMore Updates
Cellular Dweller has released BattleChat ver2.0 and Heretic has released a new upated file for the MPQ View. This one will also allow u to extract the single player mission .wav files. I've added these to the Downloads section. Also added Rabid Mouse's Greetbot, Winbot. Grab them all here.MPQ Extractor Update
Heretic has released an updated data file for MPQ View. Here's the post from StarHack on it :The author of MPQView has released an updated data file. It is available in the Files section. The new data file contains the campaign maps, which are the .chk files. These can be opened with StarEdit. Also, to extract the raw maps from the .scm files, try adding staredit\scenario.chk to the data file.Get MPQ View here. Updated file - sc_data.zip here. Check out StarHack's Files section for more info.
Unit Viewer
Sta17 has removed the link for the unit viewer from their site. They don't have time to support it, so for now the link will stay down. You can still get it here, but if u want the viewer I'd grab it now, just incase they decide to remove it permanently.TA vs. SC
Gamecenter has an article on the longstanding debate. They compare graphics and sound, terrain, realism, scenarios and stories, multiplayer, and units. They give SC the win but it looked like a tie to me (3 to 3) eh, i've never played TA anyway :\ Read the article here.Lan joins StarShack
Lan will now be posting news for StarShack in addition to Lanhdanan's Billboard. If u haven't seen Lan's site yet, you really should check it out. It covers general and gaming news from all over the web and can save u hours of surfing.New Strats
The Game Cage has updated their Zerg and General Strategy sections. You can check them out here.White Lightning Clan Moves
They're being hosted by Lord Vader's Hangar and can be reached thru that site or go directly to them here. Thanks for the info Sgt Dawg :)Kali 1.45 Released
Kali has released a new version, download it here. [ News Source - The Game Cage ]QuakeWorld 2.2 is out!
Head over to Quake World to download it from one of their many sites, and for all the latest info on it. [ News Source - Lan's Billboard ]First Contact canceled by MicroProse
Sorry Trek Fans, PC Gamer reports that MicroProse has " decided not to continue development of Star Trek: First Contact in order to direct our development and marketing efforts on [the] two Star Trek: The Next Generation titles," a spokesperson for MicroProse told us, referring to Klingon Honor Guard and another Star Trek game, the strategy title Birth of the Federation. Read the article here.Make 'em but don't sell 'em
Seems Blizz isn't too happy with the Stellar Forces Add-On. Jeff Strain (Blizzard) states that it wasn't authorized and they don't intend to let it slide. *sniff sniff* can u smell lawsuit #...?... eh, I lost count ;) Read the post here.StarCraft Font!
Exodus has made a SC font available for download. Each letter must be a seperate gif. For more info check out his page, SC Archives.SC BUG !
Lanhdanan emailed me about this bug. Sorry it's so late but I didn't get around to checking email till today :(I've talked to some people, and found something interesting: A way to log onto battle.net (without being a spawn) while never having bought the game. And heres how: (I am posting this in hopes blizzard sees it) If you take a real SC CD that has been bought, and spawn it on another computer, and enter in its reg code, and then dupe the CD using a CD-R and reinstalling the game, the game will still have the reg code locked away in the registry, so once you start up battle.net on a duped CD, it will read that reg code, think you bought the game, and since you didnt install it as a spawn, allows you FULL access to b.net.
[source - S|U]Panet StarCraft Closes
It's true :( Drop by the site to see the farewell, it's worth a look :) Best of luck to ya Gargantua.New Fan Art Arrives
TWoS recieved 5 new entries in the Fan Art contest. View them here. I just gotta say tho, some of those pix were up b4 the contest started... They also recieved a new Windows 95 background by Diesel. No info on what it looks like but u can download it here.StarCraft on LinuxThis guy says it can be done. All the info here. [News Source - TWoS]
SC Icon Site
If your into icons, u should like this site. StarCraft Icon GatewayURBAN ASSAULT CONSUMER BETA-TEST
Got this in my news letter - "Microsoft announced today that on Wednesday, May 20, gamers will be able to go to http://www.microsoft.com/games/urbanassault/ to sign up for the chance to be beta testers for Urban Assault. In total, two hundred beta testers will be signed up from the Microsoft site, the Internet Gaming Zone, and several participating sites worldwide. Beta testers will be selected based on a first come, first served basis, and must have the proper system requirements." Gamepen will be having sign ups too. More info here.Two Protoss walk into a bar
One Protoss says to the other, "Why do Terrans hide in bunkers and Zergs cower underground?" The other Protoss looks at him and shrugs his shoulders. "Because they have to." hehehe This is the intro to the GamePen review of SC. You can read it here.Who is Donald Driscoll
Plaything has an article on Donald Driscoll, the lawyer that filed the lawsuit against Blizz on the registry affair. He see's himself as "the consumers' David fighting corporate Goliaths". (hmmm..dellusions of grandeur??) You can Read the article here. [source - SC.Org]SC Touney
The National SC League is having a tournament May 15th. You can register now for $2.95 First Prize is $100. For more info and to register go here. [source - Sta17]Very Cool Site !!
Scum Runners sent me an email saying he had put a blurb about my site up (Thanx!) So I of course went right over to see it. ;) Well this site looks pretty cool !! Lots of info and scums, very nice layout too. One of the cooler things about the site is it's scum forum, help section and sound archive!! I'll definitely be adding it to my morning surf. Check it out!SC Patch 1.02
Blizzard's Jeff Strain has posted about a new patch in the works. Says it will add some new AI Scripts, address the dissappearing trigger bug and other fixes for the game itself. Read the post There'a another post by Jeff on StarEdit and the FAQ Update. View it here. [source - Scum Runners]Strategies
CGO has some strategy tips up for SC. These cover some fundmental "common" strategies that work for either races, with race specific strategies to come later. Read article here.Still can't connect to b.net?
If u downloaded Jeremy Rule's Battle.net Fix but your still unable to connect to b.net here's some more info that might help you. Good luck. [source - Shafe]Bibles Updated
Gamers Extreme has updated their Strategy Bibles for Quake 2 and SC. The SC Bible now has the Protoss SP Walkthru in addition to the Terran SP Walkthru. Check it out here.Keyboard Shortcuts
SC.Org has mad a listing of Keyboard and mouse shortcuts. View it here or print it out here.Diablo2 Chars Reviewed
Gamecenter has an article on all 5 classes for Diablo 2 and their unique skills. Read it here. [News Source - Landhanan's Billboard]Activision Game Fan?
This was in my news letter and thought i'd pass it along. Activision On-line Store is currently making available several of its newest and most popular games at significantly reduced prices. check it out.My Brother's Keeper ?
German court starts CompuServe porn case What is it with lawsuits lately. Prosecutors alleged Felix Somm, 34, former head of the German division of CompuServe on-line service, should be held responsible because CompuServe provided access in Germany to illegal pornographic pictures and Nazi texts that were available via the Internet from computers in other countries. While this is dispicable subject matter, wouldn't it be more just to go after the webmasters themselves?Apple touts new system, to retain MAC OS core
Good news for mac ownersAppeals court sides with Microsoft on Windows 98
Does anyone else feel like they're watching a tennis match? Lawsuit this side, countersuit that side, appeal filed, new suit, new appeal...... oh well :/Previous Week
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