Beta Sign-Ups for WarCraft III

Alcachofo writes "Blizzard Entertainment has announced the long waited Beta Sign-Ups for their newest game: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Individuals residing in the USA or Canada will be able to register for a chance to be one of the 5,000 players chosen. The beta signup is scheduled for a 24-hour period, beginning on January 7th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8) and ending on January 8th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8)." I couldn't even count the number of great hours of fun WC2 provided us back in the day. What an absolute classic. I wonder if WC3 will be reboot worthy.

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Gamespot preview

[DeadBugs]

As always Gamespot has a good preview including screenshots

Re:What I'm interested in...

[Wind_Walker]

If you're interested in not having tons and tons of units, with the focus more on strategy (you know, the "S" in "RTS"?) then I suggest Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns. Here's the reviews over on gamerankings.com. And guess what? If you don't like booting out of Linux (if you boot *into* Linux), it's even been ported over there by Loki!

It's a very good game, with heavy focus on flanking units, configuring well-balanced troops, and actual STRATEGY, with an innovative and streamlined resource management model. It's highly recommended to anybody who wants to play a strategy game.

Dear Blizzard

[Xerithane]

Please choose me to be a beta tester. Not only have I purchased about 6 copies of Warcraft 2 (For me, for friends, more for me after first two copies were stolen at a lan party, one more for battle.net), 1 copy of Warcraft 1, the Warcraft Battle Chest (Just cause) and Starcraft, and the Starcraft Battle Chest but I have an unhealthy addiction to strategy games. I require little sleep, and have submitted a bug report for starcraft already.

I promise to give you my first born child for a chance to be a beta tester.

Warcraft III info

[proxima]

I've already seen a few simple questions that are answered in the Warcraft III FAQ. Some highlights: Yes, there will be a Mac version. No, there won't be a Linux version.

From the looks of things, WarCraft III will continue the age-old tradition of requiring decent hardware to run well. Fortunately, they apparently are making a full-featured map editor (probably similar to Starcraft's, which was VERY impressive, unlike Civ II/IIIs).

Also, they finally are providing high resolution support, while still (somehow) maintaining lower resolution support for those of us with not-so-good video cards.

Looks like it's going to be another addicting Blizzard game for me, but I'm glad it won't compete with my Civ III playing time for awhile.

I certainly hope they kept the most important ...

[wo1verin3]

... aspect of WC II.

Clicking on a character multiple times of course!

Click 1 starts with Zug Zug.
yes...
what?
stop bothering me
don't you have anything better to do?
I would not do such things if I were you
my tummy feels funny
BURRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP@#@##$@#$@#$@
Say hello to my little friend...

I spent more time clicking on characters then playing.

Beta Period Moved!

[jmoriarty]

I know a guy who has a brother whose girlfriend has been sleeping with someone at Blizzard in an attempt to get him on the Beta list. She said that there is a typo on the Beta page and signup really isn't until the January 9th.

That's right, as a service to all of my fellow /.ers I am passing on this invaluable piece of information. So none of you should waste your precious time trying to register on the 7th. Spend that day downloading patches to your favorite OS, or go see LOTR for the 12th time. Don't go anywhere near the Blizzard site.

I appreciate... uh, I mean Blizzard appreciates your support.

Warcarft III - LotR redux?

[WillSeattle]

Hmm. I looked at the screens and the first thing I thought was - someone's been reading too much Lord of the Rings recently.

I mean, they added:
magical cloaks
rings
spell books

Oh, yeah.

Now if I could just locate that nice ring I got for my birthday present ...

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