Blizzard Entertainment® Offers Players a Choice of Multiple Payment Models**【April 9, 2010, Taipei】**Blizzard Entertainment® announced today that the highly anticipated real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, in its Traditional Chinese version, is coming to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, priced at NT$1,950 (HK$488). After purchasing the game, players can join the newly updated Battle.net® for online matches at no additional cost. In addition to buying the product package, Blizzard Entertainment will also offer players a choice of other payment options so they can enjoy StarCraft II, with details of the relevant payment plans to be announced later.

StarCraft 2 is the RTS game I’ve been looking forward to most this year. Recent news says the open beta will be downloadable this month — I’m thrilled. Then I saw this: RT @StarCraft: #StarCraft2 beta will be released later this month! #SCUpdate

This afternoon halley summoned me over for a few rounds of Red Alert 3, and my craving for StarCraft 2 shot straight through the roof… Finally there’s some solid word: Q2 next year. Well, sooner than I can mentally handle, hehe.

Ten years to sharpen a single sword — guarantee the quality, not the quantity. After watching Jiaokeli’s See Through, I fell unusually in love with it. (download page portal) One person spent three and a half years pouring himself into creating a personal short film, giving up a stable job and material comfort, all for a little over 16 minutes of animation. What conviction sustained him through it? How could it not be a masterpiece?

StarCraft has a comic now too — the first issue of the Chinese scanlation re-created by the Sailian Scanlation Group: http://www.transfans.com.cn/thread-1987-1-1.html The Sailian Scanlation Group ...

News source: China Court Network. Blizzard Entertainment, the well-known American game company, applied to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of China to register the English name of the new StarCraft title — STARCRAFT: GHOST — as a trademark for esports services and other items. The application was rejected by the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board on the grounds that the name involves promoting feudal superstition. Blizzard then filed suit with the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court, asking the court to overturn the Board’s decision to reject the review of the “STARCRAFT: GHOST” trademark application. This morning, reporters learned from the court that Blizzard’s claims were not upheld.