Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm Beta tomorrow?

News has just arrived (that has got us all flustered and ready to write about Sc2 again!) that the Beta for Heart of the Swarm might have been released.

It is stated that friends and family of Blizzard employees and professional gamers will be the first to get the Beta keys. And then later on the rest of the world would be added.

Here’s the info so far from what we have

1. Spanish title video with HOTS units 
This video gives an overview of the units in HOTS. The text is in English and there’s no background music.

2. Screenshots of the tempest unit from Protoss and Creep. 
Shows a lot of tempest units  

3. Video showing the tempest in action
Shows the tempest against phoenixes, against a zealot, stalker and some buildings of the protoss arsenal.

Here are the screenshots copyright baidu.

and the creep over terran buildings

Stephano to join EG?

The French man with the lovely hair - Stephano is to sign up with the Team Evil Geniuses, Slasher reports. He’s been with them forever but to greater heights means greater expenditure. One that millenium cannot seem to cope up with.

From the article,

Millenium eSports Manager Jean-Marc “Bjoran” Gaudin has confirmed with GameSpot that Stephano has declined the team’s offer, and will not be re-signing. Sources close to the situation tell GameSpot that Stephano will sign with Evil Geniuses, which was said to have made the most lucrative offer among the professional teams, with Millenium close behind. One team executive said it’s “pretty much a done deal with Evil Geniuses.

I would say that would be a good deal but I’m also curious about what the rest of Evil Genius’ team is up to.  We have IdrA, Machine, inControL with lacklustre performances. They are great guys, don’t get me wrong, but why aren’t they performing? Why did HuK go down in that fashion. Is it an EG curse? or are they spoilt with too much money? Is their practice routine bad? Or are they spending too much time marketing themselves as personalities and not players?

Source: asia.gamespot.com

ROOT Destiny Interview by Forbes Magazine!

’m sure there are a lot of gamers who would love to do something similar to you, be it streaming, casting, or going pro in Starcraft or other games. What advice would you have for someone just starting out? It seems like a pretty fun lifestyle, but what are the downsides of being a gamer as a full-time job?

Just be yourself!  I hinted at this earlier, but the most important thing about streaming is capitalizing on the one thing you can offer over anyone else: your unique personality!  The downsides to being a pro is that if you find something tedious after doing it for a long period of time, it can wear down on you extremely quickly.  I, however, enjoy this very much, and I haven’t come close to hitting that wall yet.

Source: blogs.forbes.com

Heart of the Swarm leaked trailer!

Heart of the Swarm Leaked Videos are now out on the internet!

This just a trailer doesn’t spoil anything yet. You guys can watch it here as well. Just scroll down to the video. 


Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swar - Teaser Trailer by playitlive

In case the embedded video doesn’t work watch it at these links - 
Heart of the Swarm and  one more link here and the last one here.


FXO Sheth’s interview with Wellplayed.org

One of the most well mannered guys of the game. FXO Sheth interviews with Wellplayed.org. Some snippets

Dick: You always seem to respond to fan questions in your stream after games, why is that important to you?

Sheth: It’s important to me because I know as a human being it’s important to be treated respectfully. It always seems a bit rude to me to ignore those watching you. For instance if they were all in real time by me and they wanted to ask me a question I sure wouldn’t ignore them.. so why would I in my stream? (However yes I do ignore those 12 year olds with bad questions who just want to throw rocks at me!)

Dick: You’ve been very active on community sites, even urging your fans to upvote you on WellPlayed, putting you at #2 in popularity between Day[9] and IdrA. Do you feel that community interaction is essential for pros?

Sheth: It’s not essential - a TON of players get by without it. However I really want to get involved with people and for me I feel this has definitely paid off. I have respectful mods and a respectful stream and hopefully a kind place to play and learn StarCraft II, I know that other players who don’t interact with the crowd don’t get this feel. I love that feel.

Source: wellplayed.org