An Upcoming StarCraft 2 DLC Story Will Focus on Nova
BlizzCon 2015 is in full swing now, which means lots of incoming announcements about Blizzard games -- such as this one about an upcoming StarCraft DLC story expansion pack called "Nova Covert Ops."
Read MoreVote Now For The Winner Of The Mary Sue and Calgary Expo’s Ultimate Cosplay Contest!
SO. MUCH. TALENT.
You've submitted your entries for The Mary Sue and Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo's Ultimate Cosplay Contest, and the finalists have been chosen! And whoa are they ever amazing!
Read MorePro Star Craft 2 Player Makes Rape Comment About Female Opponent, Gets Booted From Tournament
10/10. Would boot again.
I don't know where people get the idea that the gaming community, despite many of its incredibly polite and welcoming members, is an uninviting place for women. Ha! Just kidding. It's things like "one of the common ways to say you're going to obliterate someone is still by using the word 'rape,' as though that's somehow acceptable behavior." As it turns out, this StarCraft 2 tournament isn't accepting that behavior.
Read MoreYou Can Make Millions Playing MOBAs
Gaming tournaments are hardly a new thing. People have been playing video games against each other, tournament-style, since the dawn of time, or at least since the dawn of competitive multiplayer video games. You know what is new though? Offering a million dollars and upward to the winners. No, these aren't Call of Duty tournaments or some other kind of twitch shooter, we're talking MOBAs. If you aren't familiar, MOBAs are Multiplayer Online Battle Areas, a style of game born from the Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients. For the launch of DOTA 2 (which is a confusing topic in and of itself), Valve is holding a DOTA 2 tournament (streaming live here) and handing out 1 million buckaroonies to the champ.
This isn't the first time a video game tournament has had a "big" payout. Last year, GSL (Global Starcraft League) offered the equivalent of $500,000 U.S. in prizes, but that was over a series of tournaments where each grand prize was around $85,000 and runners-up around $25,000. Needless to say, this DOTA 2 tournament (which is based on an unreleased game no less) blows GSL out of the water when it comes to largest lump prize. But that's not even the half of it.
Read MoreLego Starcraft II Siege Tank [Video]
This. Changes. Everything. (via /r/starcraft)
Read MoreGenetic Algorithms Used to Find Optimal Starcraft 2 Zerg Build Order
A poster on the TeamLiquid Starcraft 2 forum named Lomilar has devised a program, called Evolution Chamber, that uses genetic algorithms to find the most optimal build orders for the Zerg race. As indicated by the above video, the build method seems to provide a fairly large winning percentage, making the strategy nearly unstoppable for the time being.
Read MoreGeekolinks: 9/19
The Video Games of Today Reimagined in 8 and 16 Bits
StarCraft, With LEGOs
KEKEKEKEKE: 7 Epic Zerg Rushes
StarCraft 2 dropships, hatches, spawns, or ports in at midnight tonight, and although our Power Grid won't go up until Thursday, we'd like to pay tribute to one of the longest lived popular games in history with a little collection of our favorite Zerg rush videos.
Ah, zerg... a noun, and a very very dangerous verb.
Geekolinks: 7/24
Hellboy Hoodie, Not Bad (Fashionably Geek)
5 Comments Not To Make In Your Code (RepeatGeek)
StarCraft 2 Didn't Actually Cost $100 Million (That Videogame Blog)
How To Turn An Inkjet Printer Into A 3D Printer (Shapeways)
Tarp Surfing Is Back (RuseEntertainment)
LEGO Light (Neatorama)
The Eisner Awards (Comic Book Resources)
(picture via Marvel.)
Read MoreGeekolinks: 7/23
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