Alphabet Inc.’s DeepMind Working on StarCraft II AI
Blizzard and DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014 and is now a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., have just announced opening up StarCraft II...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Nov 4, 2016 | General Tech | 8
Blizzard and DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014 and is now a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., have just announced opening up StarCraft II...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Mar 20, 2016 | General Tech | 0
Blizzard is adding three new mini-campaigns to StarCraft II, with three missions each, to give more content for fans of single-player. The first one, StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops, puts players in…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Oct 7, 2015 | General Tech | 4
And oh boy is it a big one. Turning on the Battle.net launcher automatically downloads about 14GB worth of StarCraft II code and...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Oct 4, 2015 | General Tech | 6
Third time's the charm, unless they plan another release at some point. The StarCraft II interface isn't perfect. Even though it is interesting and visually appealing, some tasks are unnecessarily difficult...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jun 18, 2015 | Shows and Expos | 0
While StarCraft II is known for its multiplayer component, some of us are mostly interested...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 18, 2015 | General Tech | 0
Get your twitch reflexes back to their peak over the next few weeks as the multiplayer beta for the third instalment of StarCraft 2 kicks off on the 31st. On that date…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Nov 9, 2014 | General Tech | 8
Blizzard has been reconsidering what constitutes "a game sale" with StarCraft for quite some time now. They have been slowly carving out its mod platform, StarCraft Arcade, into a standalone,...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Sep 12, 2014 | General Tech | 2
The StarCraft II World Championship Series is Blizzard's official method of conglomerating numerous tournaments, including their own, into a canonized ranking system. Players get points for winning various Intel Extreme Masters, Red…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Feb 7, 2014 | General Tech | 1
Movie studios are beginning to take video game tournaments seriously. MLG secured an ad deal with Relativity to promote their movies across its channels. Lionsgate, a more scrappy company known mostly for…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Dec 21, 2013 | General Tech | 11
Update: The main series prize pool was increased to 14 BTC in addition to 1 BTC for the intro match. So Bitcoins are becoming popular and a legitimate currency. TotalBiscuit decided to create…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Dec 16, 2013 | General Tech | 3
Bitcoin Starcraft Challenge is a show match between Scarlett, the Zerg player from Canada, and NaNiwa, the Protoss player from...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Nov 5, 2013 | General Tech | 1
The last match to decide the 16 StarCraft II players competing at Blizzcon is starting just about right now. This match-up, a best-of-five series between NaNiwa and Revival, was not an…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jun 6, 2013 | General Tech | 2
Big news for fans of Blizzard titles, as if we did not have enough news items. While the majority of this news pertains to fans of StarCraft II, Diablo and…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Feb 4, 2013 | General Tech | 1
So March is looking like a packed month for us PC gamers: SimCity, Bioshock Infinite, maybe some Tomb Raider are all vying for our time. Even looking past the number…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jun 9, 2012 | General Tech | 0
Blizzard has released a new video to get us all excited about the upcoming expansion pack for Starcraft 2. Most of the changes announced at Blizzcon have been once again...
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