I’ve been receiving some mail:

 
Adam:
“Just emailing you regarding a new mod that was released Sunday 20th Sept 2009 called Korsakovia (HL2). It’s the fourth instalment of projects designed by Dan Pinchbeck, creator of the award winning Dear Esther (HL2).”

 
Smurf:
“Mideast Crisis 2’s (C&C3) site has a HUGE update including a detailed postmortem on our first release, along with many screenshots and details of the new UN Peacekeepers faction.”

 
Phillip:
“I have started adding new sites [to Valve Community].”

 
Matt:
“I was wondering if you would be interested in being affiliated with my more recent project, Unconfessional Design?
Its a Starcraft 2 Modding community I’m making.”

 
Send me mail: david@gamesmodding.com

Blizzard has once again made me love modding
The new Starcraft 2 map editor is very powerful, check this BlizzCon vid:

Have you been keeping up-to-date on your BlizzCon 2009 news?
If not, here is a re-cap of Day 1:

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Expansion

Another WoW expansion, adding 2 new races: Goblins and Worgen.
They also plan to add some much requested features: Flying in old places, Heroic Deadmines, Gnome Healers.
Check the WoW: Cataclysm site for more info.

Diablo III: Monk Class

A new class was announced: Monk, holy warrior.
Check the Monk’s page for info on Sanctuary’s newest champion.

And now Day 2:

Starcraft II and Battle.net

Battle.net will be Blizzard’s new social network for gamers. This sounds cool:

“After the launch of StarCraft II, we aim to add the StarCraft II Marketplace to Battle.net, which will create a vibrant ecosystem of user-generated content, including multiplayer maps, single-player scenarios, challenges, themes, and more.”

Read the whole Battle.net page here.

The latest batch of StarCraft II questions and answers focuses on the map editor and has some insight into Starcraft 2 modding:

Q. Does it still use the JASS language, or perhaps an upgraded version of JASS?

A. StarCraft II uses an entirely new scripting language, which we’ve called Galaxy. This language is very similar to C, and anyone familiar with programming in C will have no trouble picking it up.

Read all of the Q&A at Battle.net

Blizzcon 2009 was announced for August 21-22, 2009.

Blizzcon is a Blizzard (Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft) convention, and this year they are featuring:

• Hands-On Play with upcoming Blizzard Games (!)
• Discussion Panel with Blizzard devs
• Tournaments (Casual and Competitive)
• Community Contests with Prizes
• Commemorative Merchandise
• Silent Auction
• More….

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