Breaking News: Starcraft II announced!

Blizzard announced the next release to its popular game catalog, Starcraft II, in Seoul today.

The prequel, Starcraft, is a massively popular Real-time Strategy game, which is part of the World Cyber Games competition.

If you have been visiting Blizzard official websites, you will notice that they are lining up their previous games in a time line. Today on the front page, of the web site, you see “Hell, it’s about time”. We have been waiting for the sequel to Starcraft, and here it is!

The Starcraft II website, is the superb designed web site, please do visit it.

Starcraft II featured the 3 original races from Starcraft, the Zerg, Protoss and Terran. It will feature a new graphics engine, but possibly better than World of Warcraft and Warcraft III. It also featured Battle.net for online multiplayer games and not forgetting the World Editor which makes custom maps.

Well, this game will take months to release. At least we have something to look forward to. Cheers!

Blizzard to announce new game on 19 May!

Yes! The long await game from Blizzard is coming. There are several discussi0ns on the net about this upcoming game. Speculations about this new game are hot in gaming forums and game sites. People are thinking whether it is a new MMO, or a RTS. No to FPS, after the failure to launch Starcraft:Ghost by Blizzard.

Projected titles include Diablo III (RPG), Starcraft II (RTS), World of Starcraft (MMORPG), World of Diablo (MMORPG).

As Blizzard has been posting on their website on job vacancy for next-gen MMO, this upcoming game may be a MMO, to compete with the popular World of Warcraft.

Well, we have to wait till 19 May for Blizzard to announce the game. Till then.

Crisis Core Jump Festa Trailer

For the Final Fantasy VII fans, this is the jump festa trailer for the upcoming PSP game, Final Fantasy VII : Crisis Core.

Are you excited by it? I am!

Command and Conquer 3 : Tiberium Wars Demo

The popular series, Command and Conquer, the sequel, Tiberium Wars is due to release on March 26, that’s 3 weeks from now. If you enjoy the Command and Conquer series, this will be a must-buy for you. It has been years since EA releases the sequel or games from the C&C series, so this new game will feature attractive graphics as well as gameplay.

This new games features new race, the Alien. Yes, Alien. This is the first time Alien is featured in the C&C series, playing alongside with Brotherhood of the NOD and GDI. The new graphics engine will stun you too.

EA has released the demo for this upcoming new real-time strategy game.

You can download the demo from the following locations:

Filefront
Fileplanet

Check it out now!

Supreme Commander Demo

Supreme Commander, designed by Chris Taylor, creator of a very popular strategy game decade ago, Total Annihilation. This new real time strategy game is set to release on 20 February. For those who can’t wait to touch on the game, you can download the demo from the link below.

Download the demo here. The file is 1.05GB in size, so it may takes some time to download it.

Halo 3 release date

An executive in Microsoft has leaked the release date of the much anticipated sequel to the Halo series, Halo 3.

According to this source, Halo 3 is set to release on November 15 2007, exclusively on Xbox 360.

This is the pending box art of Halo 3. Looks photoshopped to me. I believe a more stunning box art will be revealed in time to come.

Halo 3 may shipped in 3 editions, the Legendary edition, the Limited edition and the regular edition.

The Legendary edition will includes three bonus discs of extra content and a collectible replica of a Spartan Mjolnir Mark VI helmet (below).

The limited edition will includes special content and while the regular edition just gives you the game.

Pricing of the the Legendary, Limited and regular edition may be at 99.99, 69.99 and 59.99. Weird pricing, but I guess if there are 3 editions the pricing should be around these prices.

World of Warcraft : Burning Crusade gone gold

Yes, 2 more weeks to go to the release of the hated (for some) and the beloved and much anticipated Burning Crusade, the latest expansion to World of Warcraft. And Burning Crusade has gone gold, according to Blizzard Poster at the WoW Forum, source.

Here is the preview to the new features for Burning Crusade

• Level cap increases to 70.
• 2 new races, Draenei (Alliance) and Blood Elves (Horde)
• Arena-based PvP Ladder System; Improved PvP Honor System
• New Continent: Outland
• New Profession : Jewelcrafting; item socketing
• New flying mounts for new races and Outland
• New Dungeons
• New spells and skills
• New mobs and quests

World of Warcraft : Burning Crusade is set to release on 16 January 2007, after a delay.

World of Warcraft v2.0.3 is set to be the new patch for Burning Crusade. The patch is already available for download.

Let’s hope the Taiwan fibres will be fixed asap, so that the Asians WoWers can enjoy Burning Crusade when it comes online!

Halo 3 trailer online!

The new Halo 3 trailer is released online by the game developer, at Xbox Live Marketplace. The trailer is on the game page of Halo 3. You need to enter your birthday in order to watch the video. I think this is due to the ESRB rating on the game.

here is the video! Enjoy

Registration for Halo 3 beta is now on, at Halo Official Website. Currently the beta is for North American gamers only. The European Halo 3 beta will start next Spring.

These are the requirements for Halo 3 beta:

• An Xbox 360 Pro console or an Xbox 360 Core console with hard drive
• A Xbox Live Gold subscription
• A Microsoft. NET Passport account with a Xbox Live gamertag tagged to it

Halo 3 Screen

This is one of the screenshot for Halo 3, the sequel to the popular Xbox series Halo.

The screenshots are from www.1up.com, you can see more screenshots from this site.

Gameplay is expected to be the same as Halo and Halo 2. That is the plus point of this game. Graphics wise will be better, because Xbox 360 has better graphics chip than the Xbox. GameBlog will cover more when there is news on this game.

EA’s Crysis

EA’s Crysis is one of the first DirectX 10 games to be available in the market. This game boosts superior graphics. The screenshots are absolutely stunning. You can see them here. The ultra-realistic graphics will be the next generation of games, where the looks and feels are important. You have seen the screenshots and there is a shocking news for this game, its system requirements.

The requirements are as follow:

Minimum (Pls take note that this is MINIMUM)

• CPU: AMD Athlon64 3000+ or Intel Pentium IV 2.8 Ghz
• Graphics: nVidia GeForce 6200 or ATi Radeon X1300 (At least models that support Shader Model 2.0)
• RAM: 768Mb for Windows XP and 1GB for Windows Vista
• HDD: 6GB
• Internet: 256k+
• Optical Drive: DVD
• Software: DirectX 9.0c with Windows XP

Recommended

• CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 or Intel Pentium D
• Graphics: nVidia GeForce 7600GT or ATi Radeon X1800GTO (Models that support Shader Model 3.0
• RAM: At least 1.5GB
• HDD: 6GB
• Internet: 512k - 128kbps upstream
• Optical Drive: DVD
• Software: DirectX 9.0c with Windows XP

Well, do you have the recommended specs for this game? The era of single core CPU will be over soon, Dual-core and Qual-Core will take over the job and here come realism.

Crysis will be able to run on both DirectX 9.0 and 10. So Windows XP users are able to play this game, however you are unable to experience the power of the DirectX 10. Will Crysis be the benchmark for next-gen games?