Archive for the ‘StarCraft II’ Category

Blizzard at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2015

We’re delighted to announce our return to the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice this year! Poland’s biggest eSports event will take place in the futuristic Spodek arena and newly re-opened International Convention Center from March 13-15. Last year’s IEM Katowice was a huge success, with 73,000 on-site visitors and more than 10 million unique viewers tuning […]

Community Commander Portrait

Since the launch of StarCraft II in 2010, we’ve seen countless encounters waged across a diverse landscape of battlefields. From exciting games on the StarCraft II ladder, to grand tournament ceremonies crowning the greatest players in world, StarCraft II has been full of epic experiences. And through all of these experiences, passionate members of this […]

Legacy of the Void: Multiplayer Development Update – February 12, 2015

We’d like to give you guys another update on the current state of Legacy of the Void Multiplayer. This is a chance for us to provide a glimpse at what we’re currently working on and gather feedback on our current direction. Please keep in mind that none of this is final (we aren’t even in […]

Death from Above: Protoss

Our team of Protoss analysts has been hard at work digging through the information on that Protoss data drive we told you about a while back. It’s essential to understand our enemies in order to overcome them, so this week, we’ve gathered high-tech details on some of the deadly units produced by the Protoss Stargate. […]

Warcraft III Assets Now Available on the PTR

We’re excited to announce the models and assets that made Warcraft III an amazing universe to explore are now available in the StarCraft II PTR. This brings over three thousand new materials for the amazing Arcade development community to work with, including new hero models for the 4 primary races, all of the original Warcraft […]

Arcade Highlight: Gridfall

Gridfall is a twitchy action-arena game where you’ll need split second reactions to stay solid ground. Up to 10 players can play in a free-for-all or team based setting, where the last person standing wins. The controls are simple, the spell list short, and the action tight. Check out our full highlight. Read our interview […]

Call to Action: January 29 Balance Testing

We’ve just published a Balance Test Map to the StarCraft II Custom Games list titled “Deadwing LE (2.1.8 Balance v1.0)”. In this test map, we’ll be testing major changes to the Swarm Host as well as a reduction on the duration of the Point Defense Drone. These changes are more significant than any we’ve tested […]

Team Liquid Map Contest

Team Liquid is at it again with a new 1v1 map contest to kick off the new year! For this contest, we are committed to including at least two of the finalists into the official 2015 Ladder Season 2 map pool. Last year, we saw finalists Deadwing and Catallena added to the map pool, as […]

The Crème de la Zerg

Greetings listeners! Our Zerg infiltrator has done it again—this week we’ve received data on the biggest, baddest, and most important creatures in the Zerg Swarm. We’re talking about the deadly units of the Hive, and you won’t want to mess with them. Dominating both ground and sky, the hulking Ultralisk, the vicious Viper, and the […]

You’re Going in With the Big Guns

Lock and load, space farers! The Raiders are here, and we’re back to give you the scoop on the biggest and baddest battlefield implements in the Terran arsenal. When it comes to fighting on the ground, the fearsome Hellbat, stealthy Ghost, and mighty Thor can go toe-to-toe with any foe. But look to the sky […]