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Big Download’s News Bits & Bytes – August 25

Thursday, August 26, 2010

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Filed under: FPS, Multiplayer, RTS, Starcraft II, Team Fortress 2 So we got a couple of new game reveals today and a big old fashioned internet argument about game patches and bugs. Just another day on the Computer gaming news front: Want to see your idea for a player model hat actually show up in Team Fortress [...]

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The Best of Big Download: August 16-22

Monday, August 23, 2010

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Filed under: Meta BD Last week, Gamescom hit and a ton of new Computer exclusive game announcements came with it. We were so busy we couldn’t do our usual weekly game features; they will return next week. In the meantime let’s check out just some of the many news stories and downloads we posted last week: Contests There’s [...]

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StarCraft “addiction” treated with drugs?

Sunday, August 22, 2010

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Filed under: Culture, RTS, Starcraft II Hey, we have all been there on playing games until the wee hours of the morning. But there’s still some debate on whether or not you can become medically addicted to playing games. Now Wired reports that a Korean study claims to show that game “addition” can be tempered with [...]

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Blizzard 20th anniversary book revealed

Monday, August 16, 2010

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Filed under: MMO, RPG, RTS, Starcraft II, World of Warcraft, Diablo III Founded back in 1991 as Silicon & Synapse, the development team that later changed its name to Blizzard Entertainment has become one of the biggest and most influential Computer game developers of all time. The company helped to popularize the RTS genre with its [...]

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Starcraft 2 Guide: Protoss Power

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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Filed under: Features, Multiplayer, RTS, Starcraft II The Protoss are the bruisers of Starcraft 2 with their expensive and hard-hitting units. They tend to be slow, but once they get going, it’s a nightmare for the opponent. They’ve got a lot of utility powers (arguably more than any other race) and reward excellent micromanagement. Thus, many [...]

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The Best of Big Download: August 2-8

Monday, August 9, 2010

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Filed under: Meta BD This week we had a number of game announcements but in the next couple of weeks you can expect a boatload of news to come down the pike thanks to QuakeCon 2010, Gamescom and more. While you are bracing yourself, check out this “slow” past week of news: Exclusive features StarCraft II: Check out [...]

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Blizzard deleting select StarCraft II user-made maps for “inappropriate content”

Thursday, August 5, 2010

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Filed under: RTS, Starcraft II It looks like Blizzard will be monitoring user-made maps that are uploaded via Battle.net for the sci-fi RTS sequel StarCraft II and making the decision to delete some of them if they feel they have “inappropriate content.” In a message board post on the official StarCraft II forums where a player [...]

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Big Download’s News Bits & Bytes – August 3

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

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Filed under: Hardware, Starcraft II It was quite a busy day for news but next week should also be full of game announcements (Irrational, anyone)? Razer has released a new and improved version of its Lachesis gaming Computer mouse. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick loses in a sexual harassment lawsuit. Blizzard is asking StarCraft II players their opinions on [...]

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Review: Starcraft 2

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

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Starcraft 2 is a safe bet. If there’s one thing that is ever-present throughout the gameplay of Starcraft 2, it’s that the game doesn’t want to rock the boat. It knows it has a winning formula, and it sticks to it. That’s not to say that the formula is old, contrived, or left completely alone. Blizzard [...]

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StarCraft II on top of UK sales charts in debut week

Monday, August 2, 2010

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Filed under: Biz, RTS, Starcraft II While Blizzard has yet to announced official sales numbers for StarCraft II, we have some evidence that Blizzard’s long awaited sci-fi RTS game sequel did extremely well in its debut week. MCV reports that the game debuted in the number one spot in the UK game sales list this week. [...]

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