Starting Monday, February 4, Major League Gaming will begin broadcasting the first of two invite-only events featuring top StarCraft II players from around the globe as they clash in frenzied Heart of the Swarm competition. The season opens with the Online Winter Season Showdowns, spanning the next 28 days, and concludes with the Winter Championship […]

Last week, Blizzard Entertainment welcomed guests from the media and fansite community to take an in-depth look at the progress we've made on the coming StarCraft II expansion Heart of the Swarm. Read more about what they learned at the sites below. English Gameplanet – StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm: Single player hands-on GameTrailers – […]

In this, the first of a series of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm preview videos, Community Manager Cloaken takes a look at the many features coming in the expansion designed to strengthen and support the community, relationships, and communication between players. StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is coming on March 12. You can avoid […]

Mass Destruction 2 is an appropriately named tank warfare game which pits up to 12 players against one another on a battlefield where the primary objective is to blast each other to smithereens with a variety of different weapons. As if that isn’t enough mayhem, the battlefield is also littered with power-ups to boost speed, […]

Now that those of you with Heart of the Swarm beta access have had a couple days to sink your teeth into the new features that arrived with Beta Patch 2.0.3, we kindly request your assistance in testing the leveling system. To honor your hard work and achievements during this time, we decided to create […]

If you’re eager to find out how your StarCraft II playing experience will evolve in Heart of the Swarm, we’ve got some research that should appeal to your inner Stetmann. We’ve just unveiled a new page detailing most everything that’s coming your way in the second entry in the StarCraft II trilogy. You can learn […]

This update to the beta test includes a number of new systems, polish updates, and a fix for Mac users. There are still improvements coming to Heart of the Swarm, and we appreciate your thorough testing and feedback. Please read the full patch notes, previous notes (Patch 2.0.1, Patch 2.0.2) and related articles to learn […]

Whether you play from home or on a stage in front of thousands of people, StarCraft II replays are a powerful tool for improving your game. They’re so useful that we continue to expand and improve them as much as possible. In Heart of the Swarm, we’re introducing three new replay features. In StarCraft II: […]

In this, the final part of our Q&A with a Blizzard loremaster, Brian Kindregan, co-lead writer of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and lead writer of Heart of the Swarm, answers more of the community’s most burning lore questions. Question: Are there any differences in the kind of mental/psychic disciplines the Protoss castes/tribes possess, be they martial, work-related, […]

We challenged you to submit your comic creations to the Blizzard Comic Contest, and your entries never fail to amuse and amaze us. The following comic from Linxiao Sun was selected as an honorable mention in our ongoing contest. Keep those comics coming, and you might be the next artist to take home a prize! […]