Bushnell describes this game as a mash-up between StarCraft and Starship Troopers in which players will choose between playing the game as an RTS or an FPS.

Below are his comments on the game attributing its creation to wanting to game with his 5 sons:

They’re all avid gamers and like first-person shooters. The problem is, as you get older, you lose some reaction time, and as a result, I’m getting slaughtered by them. A real-time strategy [RTS] game, however, is more my [preference], a good resource game is what I love. Battleswarm is both an RTS and a shooter, a mash-up between StarCraft and Starship Troopers, if you will. You can switch sides, too, if you feel like an RTS instead of a shooter, or vice-versa.

Sounds pretty awesome, can we get a release date?

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Those hoping for World of Warcraft 2 or World of Starcraft to be Blizzard’s new MMO are met with a sad day — Zarhym, Blizzard community manager, has recently confirmed via the official World of Warcraft forums that the new MMO will be based on a “brand new franchise”.

That’s all we have to go by for now but Joystiq is reporting that the game is being developed using the World of Warcraft engine for the time being. Whatever the new franchise is, Blizzard is sure to be rollin’ in the dough by the time it rolls around.

It was recently announced that CEO of Vivendi, Jean-Bernard Levy, will replace Rene Penisson as Chairman of Activision Blizzard.

According to Joystiq, Vivendi is the majority owner of Activision Blizzard, just to give you a whiff of the company’s scale.

Let’s see, Activision Blizzard has Warcraft, Starcraft, Guitar Hero, Diablo, and Call of Duty; all colossal franchises. Vivendi, hower, has Activision Blizzard and Universal Studios. Yeah, big companies.

One of the gamers, 22-year old Jae Ho ‘Moon’ Jang, just signed a $470,000 dollar contract to play WarCraft 3 for the WeMade FOX team. Another famous FOX team player Yoon Yeol ‘NaDa’ Lee, got a similar deal (of $490,000) in 2007 to play StarCraft.

There’s no news on how long the contract will run, but since it’s usual for players to “retire” at the age of 23-24, Moon’s contract likely runs 2 years.

In another stint that makes Koreans look cooler than everyone else, a Korean Starcraft fanatic who goes by the roughly translated name of Krabby Patty has taken advantage of Spore’s vast content editor.

What you see above, however, is just a small glimpse at what this user has done. Included in his (her?) gallery is a bunch of different Spore created Terran structures and vehicles that any loyal Starcraft fan will recognize.

This should hold you over until Starcraft 2, right? But seriously, imagine running into these guys while online in Spore. Yikes.

(Via: Ruliweb.com) (Feel free to ignore Google’s crude translation.)