Starcraft 2 to feature DRM. Would require a Battle.net account.
Blizzard has been one of the few popular videogame developers who have avoided implementing DRM to prevent piracy.
The company instead focuses on preventing games with pirated versions to connect to their online servers.
They are now going to change that stance and are now likely to [...]
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty delayed till next year
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty launch has been pushed to next year.
It was originally scheduled to arrive sometime before the end of 2009.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the game is now delayed.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is the sequel to the popular real-time-strategy game set in [...]
StarCraft II would not feature LAN game play
Blizzard has announced that they are removing LAN game play support from their upcoming videogame title StarCraft II.
StarCraft II is a real time strategy game designed for the Windows platform.
The company said that they decided to remove the LAN support from this game to combat [...]
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that tickets for its third BlizzCon™ gaming convention are now on sale. Tickets are priced at USD $100 each and can be purchased through the company’s event website at www.blizzcon.com.
BlizzCon is a celebration of the global player communities surrounding Blizzard Entertainment®’s Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® game universes. The event [...]
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and NetEase.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTES) today announced an agreement to license Blizzard Entertainment®’s StarCraft® II, Warcraft® III: Reign of Chaos™, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne™, and Battle.net® platform, which provides online multiplayer services for these games, to Shanghai EaseNet Network Technology Limited, an affiliated company of NetEase.com, Inc. Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase have [...]
