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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

BlizzCon 2011 Tickets On Sale May 21 and 25 4/13

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BlizzCon 2011 Tickets On Sale May 21 and 25

April 13, 2011 at 7:27 AM

Mark your calendars! Tickets for BlizzCon 2011 will go on sale at on Saturday, May 21 at 10 a.m. PDT and on Wednesday, May 25 at 7 p.m. PDT through the official BlizzCon website (www.blizzcon.com). In addition, a limited number of tickets to an exclusive pre-BlizzCon Benefit Dinner will go on sale Saturday, May 28 at 10 a.m. PDT. BlizzCon tickets will be available at $175 USD each, while tickets to the BlizzCon Benefit Dinner (which include admission to the show) will be priced at $500 each, with proceeds going to benefit Children's Hospital of Orange County. Tickets to previous BlizzCon shows have sold out within minutes, so be sure to synchronize your hourglasses.

If you can't make it to the show in person, the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket will once again allow you to watch the event live from the comfort of your own home. The Virtual Ticket will be available as multi-channel Internet stream around the world and also via DIRECTV in the United States.

See the full press release or visit the official BlizzCon website for more information, and we'll see you at BlizzCon!

Grandmaster League Now Available

April 13, 2011 at 7:00 AM

StarCraft II's highly-anticipated Grandmaster League is now available! To see the top 200 players in your region for the current season, head on over to the Leagues & Ladders page in the game client and then click on "Grandmaster."

More information and answers to the most frequently asked questions about this prestigious new league can be found here. If you missed the 1.3.0 patch notes, be sure to check them out here.

Patch 1.3.2 Now Live

April 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM

We recently deployed a patch for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, correcting several minor issues. To update to this new version of the game, please run the StarCraft II Launcher.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Patch 1.3.2

Bug Fixes

General
- Fixed an issue where maps would not appear in the Single Player vs. AI screen (China only).
- Fixed an issue where the Leagues & Ladders Friends page would stop displaying information if a player had more than 100 ranked friends.
- Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur when players received an alert in-game while 3D portraits were turned on.
StarCraft II Editor
- Fixed a crash that could occur on Editor startup if players had improperly configured variables.
- Fixed an issue where the Editor would display incorrect cliff height on ramps facing directly N, S, E or W; this issue prevented proper unit vision in game.
- Fixed an issue where the pathing visualizer in the Terrain Editor would sometimes display incorrect pathing.

Blizzard Hashtag Twitter Campaign

April 13, 2011 at 4:43 AM

We love communicating with Blizzard gamers through as many mediums as possible, so it's 'bout time we kicked our Twitter pages... into overdrive. We're starting a new campaign with unique Twitter hashtags to cover a variety of topics on our Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo Twitter pages. Follow us and be on the lookout each week for random questions or interactive tweets from your favored game universe, or universes. (Universi?) Check our tweets with the #WoWTag, #SC2Tag, or #D3Tag hashtags and tweet your best response. Your replies can range from ridiculous, to awesome, to ridiculawesome, but don't forget to include the hashtag. We'll be sharing some of our favorite responses on Twitter, in our official community sites, and around the table in 'Coffee with the Devs'.

This campaign is already in progress, so buff up your Twitter account now and join the battle of wits, words, and whimsy!