Blizzard Creative Writing Contest [Write An Epic!]
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Posted by on March 15th, 2009Ever dream of writing an epic story of a battle between the Orcs and Humans, or the on going animosities between the Tauren and Night Elves?
Well, then here’s your chance with Blizzard’s Creative Writing Contest!
Writers can submit their entries at the link above and have the chance of winning one of the following:
Grand Prize
- “Trip to Blizzard Entertainment headquarters in Southern California to meet and eat with the Blizzard writing staff, and a Frostmourne sword”
Runner Up
- “Seven runners-up will receive prize packages consisting of signed copies of the Diablo Archive, Warcraft Archive, StarCraft Archive, and the Warcraft War of the Ancients Archive. “
The rules are simple: To enter, submit a 3,000 to 10,000 word story written in English and set in the Warcraft, StarCraft, or Diablo universe by April 12 and earn your chance to visit the Blizzard Entertainment headquarters and meet the writers and staff behind the lore seen in the games and books.
See below for additional prizing details, or check out the official rules for more information.
5 useful tips for a gamer!
Posted by on January 31st, 2008
Gaming in modern day is something more than fast mouse clicks and good graphics. A gamer today earns and competes like a professional athlete and there is very less being said in against this. The demands off a modern day gamer are much, much more and there are things that need to be coached to a gamer - that they cannot learn on their own.
If I were to give a gamer 5 of my top tips, they would be:
E-Sports is about Darwinism!
Posted by on January 30th, 2008
This is not John Carmack of the id fame. But this is another known and informed naming in e-sports, a writer from SK-Gaming Website who talks about how gaming is about staying fit for the long haul. He talks how proper planning and foresight can help companies and teams last longer, and I couldn’t agree any more. Read on.
Many big names in e-sports are not doing so well these days. We talk in the past tense about others. It would be very easy to put various failures of teams, websites and tournaments down to the infertility of e-sports. E-sports is bad, it is business suicide, Ninjas in Pajamas and the World Series of Video Games would say.
But if this is so, how come companies like SK Gaming, Meet Your Makers and ESL are not dying with them? Why are yesterday’s kings today’s paupers? (carmac / SK-Gaming)
Read full post here.
What are the Protoss? Devs explain!
Posted by on October 31st, 2007
I beg to be reporting so late yet again, but there was some matter that need my attention and I couldn’t post here in the last few days. But here I am.
Today I decide to talk about the latest set of questions and answers that the Blizzard Development team has released. This was number 19, and they have answered a question that has sent waves of confusion amongst the pious StarCraft fans.
SC2Blog.com reports on a question, that seems dumb at first, but has a lot of mater underneath. Starcraftcz.com asked,
“What do the Protoss eat? (where do they get energy and mass?)”
That IS a really good question since it has remained unanswered through out the last game and expansion. The dev team had this to say,
Protoss gain nutrition from sunlight, or at a pinch, moonlight (which is just reflected sunlight anyway) by absorbing through their skins. They can go for extended periods without absorbing sunlight. What little moisture they need is also absorbed through their skin.
SC2Blog argues that these are plants since organism that need sunlight to convert gases like CO2 into sugar are hence Autotrophs. Or they could be fairies, or ethereal or magical? I however believe that the sunlight cannot carry so much heat energy across space and the reflected light from the moon isn’t that hot either. What they do rely on probably are the radiations from the celestial objects and use them to generate electrical energy (just like in a solar cell) or Psi. A lot of people on other blogs and forums believe them to be more plant like. Which is hard to believe since no plant like creature has had been known to sustain intelligence, grow limbs, or be psychic communicators. Hence they are some sort of humanoids crossing over into mechanicals machines or robots.
Blizzard needs to clarify more on this subject, and perhaps they need a detailed storyline to this series too, like the one they had for the WarCraft Universe. Check out other discussion between developers, fans and followers here with your own SC/Battle.net cd-key.
Cheers, till I get around to extracting the essence of the entire set of questions all the previous batches.
For the Legion of the Undead?
Posted by on October 21st, 2007
The other day I had the weirdest dream, and you will call me weird for this. I was looking at the Talent Build feature in the World of WarCraft for the Mage class. There are three major talent categories for them. Arcane, Fire and Frost.
It is a settled fact that both the Undead and the Human factions from the WarCraft 3 are masters of two different elements. Fire is for Humans or humanoids, and Frost is for the Undead. Arcane falls as a neutral set of skills that both these factions are a master of and those that abet their major spell specialization.
The Archmage however is a master of the Frost element! Blizzard, and Water Elementals are what is from the Frost talent’s tree.
The Undead Legion, also known as ‘The Scourge,’ in WarCraft 3 has a hero called the Lich. And the Lich are masters of the Frost talent. Spells like Frost Nova, Dark Ritual, Ice Shards, Frost Armor give the intelligent Lich Magi immense destructive power.
This master of the Frost is what is beginning to be the base of the next World of WarCraft installment ‘The Wrath of the Lich King.’ The Lich King is the great fallen Alliance hero, Arthus himself.
‘The Alliance,’ of which the Humans are a part, have another hero in WarCraft 3 that is from the nationless Blood Elves. The Blood Mages. These Blood Mages are a master of Arcane and Fire elements.
However, in view of all this discussion, we should remember there have been huge hints of usage of Fire at the Undead side, which leads one to think that there might be possible cross-over of skill amongst these two arch-enemies.
Which leads me to ask the Blizzard developers if they are hiding the fact that they have a plan of ultimately bringing the aloof man on the horse to the Undead?
I had a lot of time on my hands so I typed this out -.-
