Blizzcon 2010 - ticket sales started last night!

Blizzcon 2010 will take place in the Anaheim Convention Center (California) on October 22-23 later this year.

Tickets started selling last night at 19h00 Pacific Time.

Each ticket is worth 150$ and you can buy a maximum of 5 tickets per billing address.

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New starcraft 2 beta patch - patch 14!

StarCraft II Beta -- Patch 14 (version 0.16.0.15580)

The latest patch notes can always be found on the StarCraft II Beta General Discussion forum.

Balance Changes

• PROTOSS
  • Archon
    • Build time decreased from 17 to 12.
• TERRAN
  • Viking
    • Ground damage decreased from 14 to 12.
• ZERG
  • Corruptor
    • Corruption energy cost decreased from 100 to 75.
  • Infestor
    • Burrowed move speed increased from 1 to 2.
    • Peristalsis upgrade removed.
  • Overlord/Overseer
    • Pneumatized Carapace cost increased from 50/50 to 100/100.
  • Overseer
    • Infested Terran energy cost decreased from 125 to 100.
  • Roach
    • Organic Carapace upgrade removed.
    • Tunneling Claws now also increases burrowed regeneration rate from 5 to 10.
  • Ultralisk
    • Anabolic Synthesis upgrade removed.
    • Health increased from 450 to 500.
    • Speed increased from 2.25 to 2.9531.

Bug Fixes

• Map Publishing: the default Battle.net host now points to the correct server.
• Time Expiration notices that were added for testing of the Guest Pass functionality have been removed.
• Fixed a crash when trying to open an old replay by double-clicking it in Explorer.

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Cool video showing the possibilites of the starcraft 2 galaxy editor

Blizzard just tweeted this to show the possibilities of the Starcraft 2 Galaxy editor, the official SC2 Map editor.

It looks very promising, check out this video to see what I'm talking about:

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Starcraft 2 beta extended until 7th june!

Starcraft 2 Beta Phase Extended

Originally the current Starcraft 2 Beta phase was going to end this weekend and be offline for several weeks before being turned back on prior to the July 27 release.

But Blizzard just decided that they wanted another week of testing, so they extended the current beta phase until the 7th of June.

What does that mean? More beta playing for all of us! Great news indeed :)

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Starcraft 2 beta key contest on starcraft replay via twitter - the winners

Starcraft 2 Beta Key Contest - Winners Announcement

Hello everyone!

Now is the time for us to announce our 3 winners for last week's SC2 Beta Key Contest. There were 30 participants in total, and 3 of them will be playing Starcraft 2 Beta in a few hours.

How we determined the winners

All the participants were associated with a number from 1 to 30.

We then used a true number generator: http://www.random.org/ 

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