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StarCraft 2 map editor turns supply depots into Tetris blocks
If you need further proof of the StarCraft 2 map editor's versatility, look no further than a map, recently designed by Battle.net user ArcadeRenegade, titled "Supply Depot Tetris." As you might imagine, the map bends the rules and controls of Blizzard's uber anticipated strategy game, turning it into a fairly simple (albeit a tad buggy) version of Alexey Pazhitnov's blocky brainchild, Tetris. Check out a video of the map from YouTube user HuskyStarcraft just past the jump. We're looking forward to getting our hands on the map -- you know, so we can take breaks from SC2 -- for which we lack the strategy and reflexes required to play adequately -- and play a few rounds of Tetris ... for which we lack the strategy and reflexes required to play adequately. Oh well.
Map editor coming to StarCraft 2 beta this week, Mac beta a few days later
Tired of all that free StarCraft 2 beta you've been playing lately? Blizzard's upcoming patch should help to stir you from your pit of doldrums, adding the "Galaxy Editor" (read: map editor) for beta users. According to a report at Shacknews, we could be seeing the release by as early as today and as late as this Friday. Three or four days after the patch's release, lead producer Chris Sagaty says, the Mac Beta client will become available. Unlike in the retail release of SC2, beta users won't be able to upload their maps/scenarios to Battle.net 2.0 for sharing with other users. However, maps created during the beta will presumably be sharable when the game arrives on PCs and Macs sometime in the first half of 2010. [Via BigDownload]
