The World Championship Series (WCS) has a Fantasy League. ESL is adding StarCraft II to their line-up, and you can now draft your very own six-player teams with professional players from WCS Europe, WCS America, and GSL Code S. Your unique teams will go toe-to-toe until only one remains and is declared the WCS Global […]

Over the past few weeks, we’ve updated our Balance Test Map with different changes aimed at addressing Terran and Zerg balance concerns. After gathering and reviewing feedback on these changes, we’re ready to move forward with a new balance update. You can expect to see the following adjustments applied to Heart of the Swarm multiplayer […]

We’ve just published a new version of the Balance Test Map to the StarCraft II Custom Games list titled " MerryGoRoundLE (2.1.2 Balance v1.0)". In this new version, the previous Hydralisk and Spore Crawler changes will be reverted, and we'll be testing some changes to the Brood Lord. During this testing phase, please keep in […]

We’re entering the final stretch of our Blizzard Arcade “Rock the Cabinet” contest, so join us live as we play some of the awesome StarCraft II custom games that have been submitted. This Friday, May 23 from 18:00-20:00, members of the Blizzard EU Community team will welcome some special guests for a Rock the Cabinet […]

StarCraft II Patch 2.1.2 is being distributed to all regions throughout the week, and may not be live in your region yet. Please read on to check out the full patch notes. StarCraft II 2.1.2 Patch Notes Bug Fixes Your Friends List should now sort correctly based on friend type. Players set to ‘Busy’ will […]

Welcome to another StarCraft II Arcade Workshop. Today we present Titan Emergence, a cat-and-mouse game where one player takes the role of one of three massive creatures called titans, each one having several abilities that can lay waste to its enemies. The remaining team plays the defenders of the city. The city defenders must either […]

We’ve just published a new version of the Balance Test Map to the StarCraft II Custom Games list titled " MerryGoRoundLE (2.1.1 Balance v1.1)". This new version has some additional Zerg balance tweaks in Heart of the Swarm multiplayer that we’d like to test alongside the previous Terran changes. During this testing phase, please keep […]

Welcome to the latest edition of Plugged In. This is your round-up of Arcade content and news to help keep you in the 'know'! If you have any suggestions about things you would like to see or if you have content that you’d like featured, drop us a line in the comments! Rock On! Bonus […]

Far from home and without a psionic link to Aiur, your mission — should you choose to accept it — is to restore power and be spunky while doing it. In Additional Pylons, you take control of AP, a sassy probe who uses well-placed pylons to get Protoss structures back into full operation. The clever […]

When we first announced the Rock the Cabinet contest, we knew we’d get some amazing submissions, but we were not prepared. We're overwhelmed by the diversity and quality of the games we're seeing during our Arcade Night play-tests. As we’ve been sharing these entries around the office the excitement surrounding the contest has multiplied. Some […]