Blizzcore is a fast growing gaming site and that’s why we’re always looking for extraordinary users to join our team! If you think you are up for the job, don’t hesitate to apply.

Your Duties

- Maintain the news section and write interesting news articles.
- Write guides, or other special guides/articles about Blizzard games.

Requirements

- Excellent English language skills
- Creative and clear writing ability

Application

Please send your resume to: jobs@blizzcore.com.  Add as much information as you can.

Why should I join Blizzcore?

Your main objective should be that you love to be part of something like Blizzcore. Still, we provide our volunteers benefits such as merchandise, beta access, in-game items, and other special stuff.  For us it’s an opportunity to thank you for your work, and show how much we appreciate having you on the team. Mainly, you should have a passion for Blizzard Games, and love to write about top topics.

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Finally, the latest episode of BlizzCast has been released, highlighting Starcraft 2 unit design, from concept to creation with Senior Art Director, Samwise Didier. This episode also takes a look at character creation concepts from Diablo 3. Also, find out what life is like for World of Warcraft Lead Tools Programmer Monte Krol. Last but not least, Bornakk wraps up the episode with questions from the community.

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The first Blizzcore guide has been added to the “Guides” tab!

A terminology guide has been added to the Guides tab, and includes an informative A-Z of phrases and abbreviations you will hear throughout your gameplay.  The introduction for the guide:

Have you ever sat there, clicking away at your mouse, hacking away at those murlocs, wondering what people are talking about when they say, for example, “I’ll go to TP, you go to IW”? You haven’t a clue what they mean, and you go running off to cap a graveyard.  Perhaps it’s that people are asking you if you “Want BT”? You certainly don’t want BT, their internet is terrible.  You haven’t a clue what they mean.  Have no fear, this guide shall save you from these dilemmas, and you will return to the world (of Warcraft) with a whole new vocabulary.

I hope it helps you! If you feel that anything has been left out, send an email to strands@blizzcore.com and I will add it.

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A new Starcraft cinematic has been released.

Check it out here!

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Blizzard have opened a new page on their website containing all of their tournament videos, all on demand.  You can check it out by following the link below (and of course, find out how accurate the Blizzcore coverage was.  Ha ha ha. Ha.)

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x6tence players:

Souler: Night Elf Druid, Restoration + Human Paladin, Holy + Undead Warlock, Affliction/Demonology
Falcon: Undead+Dwarf Priest, Discipline + Draenei Shaman, Restoration
Siler: Tauren+Gnome Warrior, Arms + Dwarf Hunter, Marksmanship

Nihilum Plasma players:

Carekoala: Night Elf Druid, Restoration
Paperkat: Gnome Warrior, Arms
Inflame: Gnome Warlock, Affliction/Demonology

Maps:

1. Nagrand Arena. Nihilum - 1 : 0 - x6tence
Very offensive play at the start, x6tence went for Paperkat, but Nihilum did high damage on x6tence’s warlock and priest at once.  Falcon dead, followed by Souler.  One win for Nihilum.

2. Blade’s Edge Arena. Nihilum - 2 : 0 - x6tence
x6tence went heavily on Paperkat at first, lots of damage went on Souler.  Paperkat went down a lot, along with Souler, Souler died, giving Nihilum another round.

3. Blade’s Edge Arena. Nihilum - 3 : 0 - x6tence
Paperkat and Souler went down a bit in HP, both got healed, but Souler took even more damage and died.  Paperkat almost died, but got a heal, giving Nihilum the match point.

CONGRATULATIONS TO NIHILUM PLASMA!

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The Zerg Creep was chosen as the next Blizzard community discussion topic. Karune, the Starcraft 2 community manager, had the following to say..

“One of the distinct features of the Zerg is their fast movement, quick reactions and their large numbers. With the newest changes to the StarCraft II build these attributes are bound to reinforced once more.

Here are a couple of changes to the Zerg:

Zerg units except Drones can now move 30% faster on creep

Creep Tumors are smaller and burrowed

These changes will have a big impact on Zerg strategy, since covering terrain with Creep will now be very important. We will see Overlord rushes with mass spewing of creep and Zerg fast micro on creep. The burrowed Creep Tumors will force the other races to get quick detection to push back the Zerg Creep and take their fast movement.

Keep in mind, the actual percentages and numbers are all subject to balance. The primary discussion should be about the new game mechanic, and how this could affect strategies on all sides.

Also, don’t forget that Overlords (with the prerequisite of Lair) can spread creep, and creep that touches enemy (non-Zerg)buildings, damages those buildings.”

The addition of faster unit movement on the creep adds many new strategies and mechanics for Zerg players. It will obviously be a huge advantage for a Zerg player to spread as much creep on a map as possible to allow for swift transportation of units and severe area/expansion denial against opponents.

What are your thoughts? Share in our forums.

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The past 15 months have been an interesting time for the mighty fanbase of Blizzard. With the announcements of Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, and Wrath of the Lich King it seems that everyone has something to look forward to and be excited about.

But one of the most interesting topics of discussion is that of Blizzard’s plans for what they refer to as Battle.net 2.0

With such a large community and millions of players spread across each of their major franchises, Blizzard has decided that one of their best actions they could take would be to create a networking tool that would help bring all of these players together and provide them with a wide array of great new features and resources.

While alot of information regarding Blizzard 2.0 is still under wraps, some of the new features that we know about are…

1. A chat interface that will allow players to communicate with each other while they are playing seperate games. It can be accessed in-game for any Blizzard title.

2. A wide variety of achievements that will be added to all Blizzard games along with improved stat-tracking. Your stats and achievements will be recorded to your account and displayed on your profile for all to see.

3. Friends/Ignore lists and clan support, both with advanced management options.

And many more things such as automated tournaments, improved matchmaking that will be secured against cheating, avatars and other ways to represent yourself, and so on.

Those of you who are familiar with Steam probably know what to expect with this new version of B-net. Exciting? Yes, I’d say so and with Blizzcon 2008 on the horizon and much more information to come I would also say that it is a great time to be a Blizzard fan.

What are some features that YOU would like to see added to Battle.net 2.0? Discuss in our forums!

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