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According to Fomos (via Team Liquid), Blizzard has announced some of its marketing partners in Korea, the most notable being Korean Air. It revealed that two Korean Air planes have been branded StarCraft 2 and feature art from the game.

Having witnessed StarCraft being pirated to hell and back over the last decade, the developers decided to crackdown on the rampant issue…

Games Workshop has a bit of history in crushing fans and their Internet fan pages based on Games Workshop IP’s.  WarhammerAlliance.com is yet one more example of the bully coming to the bus stop.  WarhammerAlliance.com is one of the larger fansites for the MMO Warhammer Online.  Games Workshop is taking the operators of WarhammerAlliance.com, Curse, Inc to court.

The Cliff Notes version of this battle is due to Curse making money off of advertising while using Warhammer and warhammer trademarks on the WarhammerAlliance.com website.  This is a weak argument from Games Workshop.  Curse also has a World of Warcraft site up that brings in way more traffic than the Warhammer site.  We don’t see Blizzard coming in to be all big an douche baggy.

Listen Games Workshop, you make more money selling your desktop gaming items than Curse is making off of advertising.  Taking on a big fansite like WarhammerAlliance.com is ridiculous.  They help spread the love of your brand around the net.  Taking out one of the bigger fan sites so you can line your pockets only makes you look like Asses.  How about you look the other way and let fans enjoy their beloved site?

You can read the full 13 page legal complaint right here.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

As Blizzard announces that the Battle.net servers for Starcraft 2 will be split by region, Classy Gamer elaborates on the problem of "Gamer Segregation".

We interact and play on a globalized internet that allows us to connect with other gamers all over the world in a matter of seconds, but some game developers still stubbornly split their communities with antiquate regional barriers.

Blizzard has released a new cinematic trailer from StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

“Take a left at the Orc statue, then go straight to check in at the reception desk,” says the Blizzard security officer at the entrance gate to the infamous Blizzard Campus. That’s probably the only time I’ll ever have a security guard give me directions with an Orc statue as a landmark. Needless to say, I know I’m at the right place. This is my first time to Blizzard, and my first time to try out the single-player campaign of the upcoming Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, so I finally have a chance to ask Chris Sigaty, Lead Producer on Starcraft 2, the one burning question on my mind: What took so long?

“It wasn’t until we were done with the Warcraft 3 expansion in 2003 that we had a chance to even start looking this way. World of WarCraft came out and a lot of resources went into that to help it accomplish all that it has done, which has been great; whole teams were brought into that game at certain times. We also wanted to define exactly what StarCraft 2 is. We wanted to hearken to the legacy of the multiplayer game but also be able to bring a lot into [StarCraft 2] as well. It took us a while to settle on the campaign and ultimately what it was; we knew we wanted to do something new, so hopefully people will be blown away by it.”

Kotaku: "The game of StarCraft is kind of a big deal in Korea, the country in which Blizzard opted to announce the highly anticipated StarCraft II in May of 2007. Shame, then, that the PC game has been rated adults only."

GamerZines: Remember that Starcraft II petition we reported on last year which only had around 3,000 supporters? Well, it has swelled a bit since then with the signatures numbering close to a quarter of a million.

249,074 people want Blizzard to put LAN support back into Starcraft II – at time of writing – with the first part of the sequel, Wings of Liberty, to be released over the coming months.