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  • Don’t Have A Starcraft II Beta Key? Pre-order At Gamestop And Get One

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    I guess I will be doing this since Awesome Radical Gaming, a massive powerhouse with it’s 10 (max) readers and completely random updates, isn’t good enough to get one through Blizzard. You can reserve online and wait 24 hours for the code through email, or go into a store and get the code immediately. The…

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  • Command And Conquer 4 Cinematic Trailer

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    I’ve never really been a fan of the Command and Conquer series. Maybe it was the horribly cheesy cutscenes. Maybe it was lame units from previous entries in the series, such as the armored attack bear units, or the transforming mechas and ninjas. Something about the whole series just doesn’t sit well with me.

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  • Preorder The Dawn Of War II Expansion, Get Saints Row 2

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    I can’t think of two more dissimilar games…if you pre-order The Dawn of War II expansion, Chaos Rising, you’ll get a copy of Saints Row 2 for free. I wonder who came up with that idea. Regardless, free is always good and apparently you can sell sex in Saints Row 2 for respect, which is…

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  • Blizzard Official Begins Starcraft 2 Closed Beta

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    After what feels like years of waiting, Blizzard is starting the Starcraft 2 closed beta. I beta that I won’t be getting a key for because Bob at Blizzard’s PR department noticed I’ve only updated the site like 3 times since last year. He was harsh, harsh but fair. I’ve been slacking, but no more.…

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  • Starcraft 2 – Open Beta May Be Coming

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    Blizzard’s Korean community manager Kicho has hinted of a possible open beta, saying that the StarCraft II beta will be available for “all fans of the franchise”, not just press and VIPs. We know that all of you are very curious about the development of the Beta with the release of many Starcraft 2 Beta…

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  • Dawn Of War II: Chaos Rising Trailer

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    I really liked Dawn of War II, I’m pretty excited to see more of the expansion.

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  • Starcraft II Map Editor Can Do RPGs, FPSes

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    Starcraft’s map editor allowed users to create their own maps and just generally do a lot of cool things with the game (this mostly resulted in the creation of about a million different Starship Trooper maps). Well, Starcraft II’s editor is going to be even cooler. At BlizzCon’s StarCraft II gameplay panel, they showed off…

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  • Starcraft II Campaign Videos

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    So, I totally want to play this game. Kotaku also has a nice write-up of the first seven single player missions (it has spoilers).

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  • Starcraft II Delayed Until 2010

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    Today Blizzard officially announced that Starcraft II will be delayed until sometime in 2010, citing the development of the newly improved Battle.net as the major reason why we won’t be seeing the game in 2009. I think everyone kind of, sort of, knew that Starcraft II was going to be delayed, it’s Blizzard after all,…

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  • More Halo Wars DLC Coming July 21st

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    Halo Wars latest downloadable content, “Historic Battles”, will be available July 21 for 800 Microsoft points and offers 4 new multiplayer maps: • Barrens (1v1 Map): Difficult terrain channels units into killing zones. The side that controls the Forerunner artifacts will have the advantage.

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  • Starcraft II’s Tech Trees

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    I think I want to play as Terran, no other unit looks as radical as Thor. And now I know exactly what buildings I need to create them…6 months ahead of time. The Terran and Zerg trees are below…

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  • BattleForge Community Update 01/29/09‏

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    In the latest BattleForge (an upcoming PC card based RTS by EA Phenomic) community update a new card is revealed, Ice Guardian, and a free desktop wallpaper.

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