Liquid Taeja Wins Dreamhack Valencia

LiquidTaeja has once again proven that he is currently the best Starcraft 2 player in the world, by taking down this third international SC2 tournament, the prestigious European Dreamhack Valencia held on 22-23 September 2012. The Terran player came back after being down two games against another Korean Terran player and ex Brood War pro gamer ForGG from team Millenium. Taeja's win here adds another Euro 7,850 / $10,400 into his bank. His road to the finals seems to be a walk in the park by taking down Bly, Sase and Targa without dropping a single game from the Round of 16. The Terran player took down Warcraft 3 legend Grubby and even

Stephano Wins WCS European Finals

Stephano from team Evil Geniuses has proven once again why he is the best foreigners has to offer representing the west. Dub the best player outside Korea, Stephano took down WCS European Finals with ease. His domination was proven once again with him going undefeated in match series heading all the way into the Grand Finals. His only game loses was against the 2nd and 3rd place finisher and brothers, Vortix and Lucifron. The French player added another fat paycheck of $24,000 into his now fat piggy bank. Who knows what the actual amount he was offered to join EG.

First look at SC2: HOTS Beta

SC2: HOTS, Heart of the Swarm Beta has been released by Blizzard. However, at this stage, only a selected number of players are able to participate in this Closed Beta. Those invited include most of the professional SC2 gamers and random players that signed up for the Beta Trial in your Battle.net account profile. If you are one of those lucky few managed to get your hands on this piece of treasure, congratulations. However, most people like me are not able to get into the beta at this stage, until Blizzard plans to release it to the mass public before actual release of the game itself. If you want to know the actual release date for HOTS, you will probably won't find the answer so soon as this is Blizzard here we are talking about. The awesome gaming company will only release the retail version after it has been perfected and they do not fear to prolong the date. (I predict it to be released during Christmas time or early next year)

Lets, come back to the actual first look at SC2 HOTS at this release of Beta. If you cant get your hands on the Beta trial key, you can always watch the live streams available as well as VODs. There are even tournaments for HOTS beta currently.