Starcraft II Poll

Please cast your vote and we'll let Blizzard know what their customers think!

Blizzard on LAN gaming

Just in case you were excited about the new Starcraft II game and playing with your friends and family, Blizzard's official stance is they have no plans to include LAN play at this time. Click here to read the article over on Kotaku. For most of us out there tired of joining online multiplayer servers is the players who have pirated or hacked the game kick our butts, making the game absolutely terrible to play. Most of the time the multiplayer games I play, I play with my close friends and family. That's it. So while I have enjoyed the Starcraft series, I will say I will most likely NOT be purchasing Starcraft II. I'm sorry Blizzard, but you can never stop piracy, and this move hurts the people who honestly purchase your software. Pirates and hackers will always find another way and those of us who pay to play the right way are now penalized. Thanks a lot.

Blizzard Beta Testing

If you are interested in trying out the latest games for Blizzard, you have to sign up for a Battle.net account.

If you have a World of Warcraft account, you can merge that with Battle.net in order to sign up for beta-tester status - you have to have at least one game associated with your Battle.net account. After you have created your profile, under the section Manage My Games, click on Merge a World of Warcraft® Account. Follow the instructions and make a note that you are changing your login for World of Warcraft to your email address.

On your Battle.net home page click on Beta Profile Settings. Accept the user agreement and download the appropriate system profiler software which sends your system specs to Blizzard to help them determine if they want you to help beta test a specific game. Make sure that you have check marks to all the universes you want to be in the beta pool for. These include Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo.