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Various competition organizers hold regular online tournaments in which you can compete against other players and maybe even win some prizes! Most of these contests are open to everyone. In addition, there are professional tournaments taking place like the 2012 GSL Season 1 Code S, the North American Star Team League, the IPL Team Arena Challenge 2, the 2012 GSL Team League Season 1 and the 2012 MLG Pro Circuit Winter Online Qualifiers which you can follow via video stream.

With the introduction of the BattleTag system, we’re in the process of evaluating how they might be integrated into StarCraft II, and how they may impact character names in the future. Instead of making everyone wait until we know how that integration could affect a name change system, we’ve decided to provide an additional free character name change for StarCraft II players eager to pick something else.

When referring to eSports nowadays, one can’t say Finland without mentioning ASSEMBLY and ASUS ROG. Finland’s largest LAN party, ASSEMBLY Winter 2012 in Helsinki, serves as host to one of the most prestigious StarCraft II tournaments in Europe – the ASUS ROG tournament. From February 24 to 25, a battle for glory, fame and a fantastic prize pool of $20,000 USD will be fought by 32 of the world’s finest players!

The sixth StarCraft II League season has begun, and Team Dignitas’s Shaun “Apollo” Clark recently posted in-depth analyses of both of the new Season 6 maps: Cloud Kingdom and Korhal Compound.

We understand that picking out the appropriate desktop wallpaper to fit your tastes and complement your décor can be an arduous task. To that end, we’ll be offering you help every Tuesday (...roughly) by featuring a new downloadable Diablo III, StarCraft II or World of Warcraft wallpaper image on our community sites.

The sixth StarCraft II League season has arrived!

Players have fought hard for eight grueling weeks in the ESV TV Korean Weekly to earn the right to compete in the first ever ESV TV/Twitch TV Grand Prix. Over $2,000 in prizes are up for grabs, along with a spot in the ASUS ROG tournament in Finland later this month.

We’re pleased to announce a partnership with USAopoly to release fresh takes on two classic board games. Monopoly®: World of Warcraft® and RISK®: StarCraft® combine tried-and-true foundations with new visual designs inspired by our popular gaming universes.Those who dare to engage will discover a new chance to claim supremacy, both over their friends and over the battle-torn lands of Azeroth and the Koprulu Sector.

These games will formally debut at the 109^th annual Toy Fair this Sunday, February 12 in New York City.

We’re pleased to bring you the latest StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty situation report. In this edition, we'll be discussing some of the most notable changes in patch 1.4.3 and shed some light on the design philosophy behind this update.