Starcraft II by end of 2009, Call of Duty expanding to new genres

E3 2009: Activision Blizzard kicks off this year's marathon investor call tipping hand on RTS date, PSP Guitar Hero, and new James Bond, Tony Hawk, Spider-Man, and Transformers in 2010.

http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6210427/starcraft-ii-by-end-of-2009

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StarCraft 2 Death Animation

New Death animation added from Blizzard.
Enjoy

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Stracraft2 Graphic Card Requirement

There will be no problem with graphic card above Radeon HD4670.

At Korea Starcraft 2 demontration, Computer System set-up was AMD Phenom II X4 955 with Radeon HD4870. Graphic option was set in max level and detail option was secret.

AMD persons concerned that you will be able to play well on HD4670 and below graphic cards with options change or graphic card HD4670 or above without any problem.

Still, game is in testing period that I can't discuss well at this point. I believe Starcraft 2 will be fine with low-end system like Blizzard announced it before.

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New Observer Mode in StarCraft II

In Observer mode menu located at left top corner. If you clicked this, you will see 7 menus, None, Resource, Spending, Units, Production, Army, and APM.

Resouce - You can check player's mineral, gas, and number of units.

Spending - has 3 other sub catagories, Economy, Technology, and Army.

Units - Show how many units player's have

Production - Show buildings and units player is producing

Army - How many resouces did player used for units he produced.

APM - Action Per Minutes, show how fast this player can do.

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Starcraft II Demontration pictures

Here are some more picture of Starcraft II demonstration in Korea, including game snap shots.

The blizzard PR manager Bob Cole said " Units are development stage still and changing everyday. so compared with the previous version is meaningless," and "Indeed, the latest version changed, which was originally scheduled to be in this demonstraion two weeks ago removed," told him.

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SC2 Demonstration in Korea

One of my Korean friend could play most recent updated Starcraft2 for 45 minutes. Demonstration held in Apgujeong, South Korea on May 21st (Korean time).

It wasn't alot of time but it was enough time to find out the overall feeling of the game.

He had played Protoss and here are some pictures and his thought.

First of all, graphic was not best quality like heavy graphic games like warhammer40k but refined and bright color makes games look luxurious. Units motion and animation also very smooth that makes easy to control. Overall color tone was brighter than before, think they used more bright color other than black and gray.

Most impressed me was game speed, there is no loading speed that I worried before since it is 3D game now. I can't even feel it and game speed also fantastic. I felt that it was 1.5x faster than original starcraft.

Weak part was blowing(?), hitting(?) and exploding(?) effect. I don't know what to say in English sorry for that. Physical and visual effects were too light that makes game little boring to me.

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Another Lego model

Terran battle cruiser LEGO model

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