AusGamers caught up with StarCraft 2 Producer, Kaeo Milker, after the launch of SC2 in Australia, and have posted a video interview and transcript.
From the interview:
"AG: With the multiplayer beta did any of the tweaks jump over to the single-player campaign at all?
Kaeo: We actually separated the data for the single-player and multiplayer so that any tweaks that we made on the multiplayer game wouldn't affect all of the balance that we have in the campaign. There's a lot of really specific tuning for various difficulty levels against the AI in the campaign and we wanted to make sure to keep that in tact, so they really were separated and kind of two separate parts of the game we were working on..."
Activision Blizzard ordered to pay $23.4M for patent infringement involving popular games.
I would read the article but the giant pop-ups from the top and bottom of the screen made me close it.
Without reading $23.4 million isn't a deterrent for a company that size.
Boss: Let's fire a few people to recoup on that loss.
Slave: Cortana has decided to get rid of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks.
Boss: Let's get those Firing Letters "Copilot Approved" and send them through the power of the cloud.
Slave: Long Live Phil !!!
ALL in the room: LONG LIVE PHIL !!!!
Well another troll company with a patent trying to extort money out of companies. Seems like they’re going to try and sue everyone.
Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."
How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.
Microsoft has 'let Blizzard be Blizzard' following the acquisition of the veteran developer according to World of Warcraft's executive producer.
Diablo 4 storefront being a cash grabbing shitshow does unironically attest to that, kudos.
Okay i will be interested if they become old Blizzard but might as well be dead.
Shame most of the people that made Blizzard what they were, have already left a while ago.
Were you expecting Microsoft to hire everyone that had left Blizzard long before they purchased the company...
Microsoft has let the Blizzard company they purchased continue to be the Blizzard company they purchased.
"You can play with some friends in South East Asia then jump over to North America - kind of have the freedom to do that. It's actually a pretty neat thing right now that only down here [Australia\New Zealand] are able to do that."
envying!
doesn't actually come into effect in AU for at least another month and a half though