{"id":51652,"date":"2013-03-11T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T09:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=51652"},"modified":"2013-03-11T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T11:22:50","slug":"starcraft-2-heart-of-the-swarm-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/51652-starcraft-2-heart-of-the-swarm-what-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm: what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highly-anticipated Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is on the verge of release and in preparation of the big event, Blizzard have put together some videos showcasing the expansion\u2019s new features.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Heart of the Swarm social systems<\/h3>\n<p>In the first StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm preview video, Community Manager Cloaken takes a look at features designed to strengthen and support the community, relationships, and communications among players.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JwS5t2SLsDo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Heart of the Swarm new game modes<\/h3>\n<p>Cloaken also takes a look at some of the many ways that players may choose to explore the coming expansion, its new campaign, game modes, and other features.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ffLwJuj8ZbI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Heart of the Swarm eSport features<\/h3>\n<p>Competitive gaming will obviously play a big role in Heart of the Swarm, and Cloaken takes a look at how eSports looks to be evolving with the coming expansion, the look and feel of the multiplayer game, ladder play, and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zn3-O4jYO7g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Heart of the Swarm single-player gameplay features<\/h3>\n<p>You can also get a sneak-peek at some of the new features and systems coming in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, including a few shots of the new single-player campaign.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cLZNJ1Bl2jo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Are you excited for Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm? What new feature are you most looking forward to?<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More StarCraft II news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Heart of the Swarm Vengeance trailer builds tension\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/51130-heart-of-the-swarm-vengeance-trailer-builds-tension.html\">Heart of the Swarm Vengeance trailer builds tension<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Starcraft 2 SA Wild Card Qualifier tournament announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/51085-starcraft-2-sa-wild-card-qualifier-tournament-announced.html\">Starcraft 2 SA Wild Card Qualifier tournament announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50630-bt-games-heart-of-the-swarm-launch-event-stores-confirmed.html\">BT Games Heart of the Swarm launch event stores confirmed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm invitational tournament announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50518-sa-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm-invitational-tournament-announced.html\"><strong>SA Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm invitational tournament announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49662-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm-opneing-cinematic-revealed.html\">Heart of the Swarm opening cinematic revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch up with all the new features for Starcraft 2&#8217;s expansion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":51653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[665,21,4154,2219,4155,1289,9221,723,183],"class_list":["post-51652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-blizzard","tag-headline","tag-heart-of-the-swarm","tag-megarom","tag-starcraft-2","tag-starcraft-ii","tag-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm-video","tag-trailer","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51654,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51652\/revisions\/51654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}