http://starcrafting.com Starcraft 2 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:14:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kaiba has been streaming live gameplay for a couple years now and has recently moved from streaming World of Warcraft towards streaming Starcraft 2. He streams about 4 nights a week, typically as Terran, and does everything from 1v1, to 4v4, and FFAs.  He rolls with the ECG clan and loves ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/ecg-gaming-does-starcraft-2-livestreamed/ The first day of the gomtv gsl season 2 qualifiers are complete. Now we know the first 16 players that are going to be taking part in the broadcasted part of GomTV's Starcraft 2 GSL Tournament. A couple of names, particularly IdrA, have made it in among the ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/gomtv-gsl-news-first-preliminary-round-complete-for-season-2/ This Sunday, we'll be getting in some major Starcraft 2 Tournament action.  A 16-player Diamond level tournament is planned for this Sunday evening.  The spots will be filling up fast.  So, if you're playing at the Diamond level and want to get in on some live streamed action, be sure ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/starcrafting-16-player-tournament-on-sunday-october-10th/ He is a legend of Brood War and now he's making the move to Starcraft 2 progaming official.  Nada has signed a contract with Korean team oGs.  As his first event as oGsNada, he'll be taking part in GomTV GSL Season 2.  No doubt that this is huge for the ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/ogs-has-acquired-nada/ There has been a lot of speculation about when the date in question might occur.  Heart of the Swarm, the second part of the Starcraft 2 Trilogy, still has no real confirmation on anything resembling a release window, as per Blizzard's 'It'll be released when its done' strategy for release ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/blizzard-project-director-hints-at-2012-release-for-heart-of-the-swarm/ Lots of ProGaming News today after a bit of a post-GSL lull, but we're getting back into full swing this month.  If you guys are looking for some quick Starcraft 2 Tournament action right now, there is one ready and waiting.  The Intel Extreme Masters event for the American Championship ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/esl-news-starcraft-2-tournament-live-at-new-york-comiccon/ In the off chance that you don't find yourself in the DC area next weekend, you still have a chance to get in on some pro-level Starcraft 2 play next month.  The passes for the MLG Dallas event went on sale today for participants in the Starcraft 2 Tournament.  The ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/mlg-news-dallas-passes-for-starcraft-2-go-on-sale-today/ Over the course of September, we had a look at what the best of the world can bring to Starcraft 2.  Epic games, awesome comebacks, and incredible dominations were all the for us all to enjoy.  From the preliminaries to the grand finals, millions around the world tuned into the ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/gomtv-gsl-news-starcraft-2-tournament-season-2-preliminaries-begin-tomorrow/ When it comes to competitive gaming on any level, it seems that there are always imbalances in one way or another.  Well, Blizzard Lead Developer Dustin Browder is still concerned about how Starcraft 2 Zerg players are faring in the Ladder.  This should come as a sigh of relief to ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/blizzard-developer-blog-takes-a-look-at-balancing/ Everyone loves explosions.  This is especially true when its your opponents that is exploding.  While Starcraft 2 Zerg lack the certain overkill flair of a Tactical Nuke, they have their own impressive explosions in the form of Zerg Banelings.  These little mutated Zerglings ram head first into their target and ... http://starcrafting.com/zerg/starcraft-2-zerg-strategy-baneling-guide/ In the world of competitive gaming, the term "different, but equal" may never be true.  This is also true in the case of the maps that Blizzard has created for the 1v1 map pool.  Some maps favor one race's style while another map favors another race.  Sometimes the differences are ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/blizzard-makes-some-changes-to-the-1v1-map-pool/ If you keep tabs on the international Starcraft 2 Tournaments such as the GSL Tournament, then you know that different styles of gameplay emerge in different sort of ways in different regions.  On top of that, Korea is known as the holy ground of Starcraft gameplay.  Most of the top ... http://starcrafting.com/protoss/starcraft-protoss-build-strategy-korean-4-gate-all-in/ When it comes to Account Administration, Blizzard does things in bulk.  This is certainly reflected when they announced that 5000 Starcraft 2 accounts were banned for using cheats and hacks.  The announcement came down about three weeks after they sent out a warning concerning the use of hacks and cheats. ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/blizzard-bans-5000-starcraft-2-accounts-for-cheating/ Now, that we're in a lull between GSL seasons, its the perfect time to catch up on whats going on in other competitions around the world.  Today, we're going to be looking at some info for the next big MLG Starcraft 2 Event.  We're just a couple weeks out from ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/mlg-news-official-washington-dc-player-list-release/ Well, we're just a few short weeks away from Blizzard's biggest event of the year.  The Blizzard Entertainment BlizzCon 2010 begins October 22nd and they've made the schedule of panels and events available for you all to peruse.  There are a total of five panels dedicated to all things Starcraft ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/blizzard-releases-blizzcon-2010-event-schedule/ The way that players identify themselves in Starcraft 2 has changed a bit from the beta phases of the game. A lot of the changes were prompted by the advent of Battlenet 2.0, Blizzard's one-stop social stop for all things Blizzard. The system is integrated in all aspect ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/blizzard-implements-new-battle-net-realid-privacy-options/ When it comes to Protoss opponents, the Stalker can be quite the handful to deal with.  The unit is armored, shoots fair-far, and even has the ability to Blink forward.  This can be quite the challenge to deal with, especially for Starcraft 2 Zerg players.  Stalkers do quite well against ... http://starcrafting.com/zerg/starcraft-zerg-strategy-zerg-anti-stalker-guide/ Normally, when we see Starcraft 2 tournaments posted, they're usually restricted to the North American Battlenet servers. This is especially true for tournaments of this scope. However, this one is special. This upcoming Starcraft 2 Tournament is for the Europeans. This is the Zowie Gear EuroCup. A ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/eurocup-512-player-starcraft-2-tournament-october-9th/ *Spoiler Warning: Results are revealed in this story* Its been a long month getting here. We're finally going to take a look at the GomTV GSL Starcraft 2 Tournament Finals for Season 1. The original pool of players numbered in the thousands. Among them are the best Starcraft ... http://starcrafting.com/starcraft-2-news/gomtv-gsl-news-starcraft-2-tournament-grand-championship-final-results/ Following his look at taking out Terran air units, one of our forum go'ers set out to make another guide to help out Zerg players.  Papp's last guide has helped new Zerg players take out Terran players with even greater ease.  So a huge thanks to Papp for giving us ... http://starcrafting.com/zerg/starcraft-zerg-strategy-zerg-vs-zerg/