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Starcraft II : Heart of the Swarm First Glance Review

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More than a month after it was released I finally find the time to check this Starcraft 2 Expansion : Heart of the Swarm. Though I did not stopped playing Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty I just could not squeeze in installing the expansion not until today. This would be my first glance review of the game.

After installing the setup file from the DVD the game still requires more than 200MB additional updates from Battlenet. Other than that update everything seem to be smooth and ready playing.

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Starcraft 2 Heart Of Swarm Opening Cinematic

The Starcraft 2 Expansion is really near and the fans of the game are soo excited. Now with this latest development we (yeah that includes me) will become more eager for the March 12, 2013 release. This Opening Cinematic of Starcraft 2 Heart Of Swarm is definitely one the best Game Cinematic openings. Check it out below and tell us what you think.

Coming Up – Starcraft 2 New Season 2013

Starcraft 2 Season 2 will soon come to an end as 2013 Season 1 will start on January 3, 2013. I got promoted to Silver once few weeks ago but demoted back to Bronze since I had a lot of loses at one time. Currently on Rank 2 Bronze. Meanwhile Starcraft 2 Heart of Swarm will be available by March 12, 2013 and can be pre-purchased now.

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MLG Spring Arena 2 Starcraft II results

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And the Champion who bested other Starcraft 2 players is Empire’s zerg Dong Hwan “Violet” Kim   or just simply Violet.  He defeated some known SC2 players such as  Alicia, Grubby then he met with Leenoch then Polt and on the championship match against Symbol. He will got the 1st Place money of $10,000.  His final opponent was another Zerg Player Symbol.

Final Results:

1st Place, $10,000: Violet
2nd Place, $6,000: Symbol
3rd Place, $3,600: Stephano
4th Place, $2,200: MC
5th/6th Place, $1,400 each: Heart, Polt
7th/8th Place, $900 each: Inori, Dream

Starcraft 2 Season 6 now online

I logged in to battle net early this evening and I was surprised that Starcraft 2 Season 6 was already activated. With some few automatic updates everything is set. Like the previous season you need to play 1 game for placement of your division. Again I went to Bronze division meaning I’m not that good in playing the game. It doesn’t matter as my goal this season is to climb to top 10 in this division.

StarCraft II is a sequel to the real-time strategy game StarCraft. It was released back in July 27, 2010. I got my copy a week after and since then Im hooked to this strategy game.

Starcraft 2 Updates

My purchased of Starcraft 2 last year really worth every cent of it as until now I’m still playing the game on BattleNet with friends against its AI or against other players on my Division league. And Oh I’m on Bronze Division and still hoping to climb more to the next division. Right now I’m #2 in my league.

Few days ago BattleNet released its StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Trailers – The first expansion for StarCraft II. So check it out :

Level Up PH will distribute Starcraft 2 Prepaid Load

I first read this news from GMTRISTAN himself through his facebook fan page that Level Up Philippines will be distributing or handling the Starcraft 2 Prepaid Load here in the Philippines. My first reaction was WOW.

Many MMORPG gamers today doesn’t care much about Starcraft 2 but for us gamers who grew up with PC/LAN strategy game we are happy that the fun can be pass to the new breed of gamers who was first introduced with hack and slash type of game. What we can be proud of is that we able to experience the LAN Strategy game era and of course MMORPG and 3D games as well.

By the way LU also announced that there will be a FREE play of Starcraft 2 starting November 19 until 21, 2010. This is your chance to try SC2 over at Battle.net. Check this link out http://www.facebook.com/StarCraftSEA for more details. SC2 cards can be purchased on selected internet gaming cafés, convenience stores and gaming retail shops nationwide. As of this writing we don’t have the exact name of the outlet.

Prepaid Cards for Starcraft 2 in the Philippines

Starcraft 2 : Wings of Liberty was launched here in the Philippines last July 27, 2010. Unfortunately only those people who are willing to shell out PHP 3500 for the starcraft Box with DVD installer and other freebies who can play the award winning title game.

Now the good news, Blizzard Entertainment Inc announced that SC2 Prepaid cards or Game Cards will be available to gamers who are wanting to play SC2 in Hong Kong/Macau, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thail and the Philippines starting on the 18th November 2010.

For Philippine Based Starcraft 2 Players here your options :

PHP 50.00 – 3 Days game play
PHP 100.00 – 7 Days game Play
PHP 350.00 – 30 Days game Play

You can download the Starcraft 2 DVD Installer at the Battlenet website or just buy it for PHP 170.00 and you can have DVD starter Kit with 7 days trial.

You were dropped – SC2 error

Starcraft 2 got this You were dropped error which I don’t know the cause of it. Out of 150 1 on 1 games I played I just experience this twice. I think in the long run this could be annoying as like in my case I’m winning the game but because I was dropped that chance of getting another win was not recorded due to the error.

Playing Starcraft 2 on Bronze League / Division

I’ve been occupied with playing Starcraft 2 for couple of weeks now. I finally skipped the practice mode and went to the Leagues and Ladders Matches. During my first 5 placement games its 3 to 2 and I was placed by the BattleNet system to the Bronze Division. According to some info a Bronze division is a division for Starcraft 2 Players that belongs to the 70%-100% of Global Ranking (or SC2 SEA ranking). From there if a player will do good he might be promoted to the higher Leagues Division. Check it below.

# Diamond (top 10%)
# Platinum (10-25%)
# Gold (25-45%)
# Silver (45-70%)
# Bronze (70-100%

So, if you belong to the bronze league don’t worry as if you are really good and keep on winning you eventually reach silver and climb to the Diamond League. Currently I have 40 Wins and 44 Losses. I know not the best records out there for bronze player but isn’t the worst too. My early objective is to make the Wins and Losses even.

I believe putting the player on a certain division that matches to the rest of the SC2 expertise on that Division would make the game fun. This is because you will be playing against those within your skills. So there….