Google's 'Zerg Rush' Easter Egg Celebrates Starcraft Game

Atari Breakout deflects all productivity with Google Images Easter egg

Tucked away in the Google Images Search is Atari Breakout, a game that is celebrating its 37th anniversary this year. This time-eating Easter egg features a familiar movable blue paddle, a bouncing grey ball, and colorful layers of bricks just like the 1976 arcade original. But there aren’t ordinary bricks - opaque Google Image results fill the about-to-be-busted bricks,...

techradar.com (1 month and 6 days ago)

Google Easter Egg Turns Image Search Results Into Breakout Game

Google's latest playable Easter egg stirs up nostalgia by commemorating 37 years of Atari's Breakout.

pcmag.com (1 month and 5 days ago)

Google celebrates Atari Breakout anniversary with an 'Easter egg'

Google likes to sneak in hidden gems onto its websites every now and then, and this week it added a new one: a mini-game of Atari Breakout to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the arcade video game.    

latimes.com (1 month and 5 days ago)

MLG Winter Championship: Day Two Recap

March 16 – The Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm (HotS) expansion may focus on Zerg, but the Terran clearly dominated today’s play at the Major League Gaming (MLG) Winter Championship in Dallas, Tex.Protoss and Zerg players...

examiner.com (3 months and 5 days ago)

EGG ON GOOGLE'S FACE?Site's Doodle Celebrates Cesar Chavez Over Easter

foxnews.com (2 months and 20 days ago)

Blizzard Entertainment Developers Launch Gamers Into StarCraft II: Heart Of The Swarm

Around the globe, PC gamers are already battling it out in Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. The new game from Activision Blizzard Publishing had launch celebrations around the world, including at the Irvine GameStop just down the road from Blizzard’s studio. With many gamers still locked out of Electronic Arts' SimCity, the PC world will turn its...

forbes.com (3 months and 10 days ago)

Review: Heart of the Swarm a big step in StarCraft II's evolution

Just as the Zerg are always evolving, so too is Blizzard’s iconic real-time strategy series. StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm doesn’t just upgrade and expand the exceptional StarCraft formula—it also hacks, cuts, and refines the core gameplay. The good news: With series antihero Sarah Kerrigan as its star, this expansion pack to 2010’s Wings of Liberty makes the original...

pcworld.com (3 months and 5 days ago)

Google Celebrates Cesar Chavez’s Birthday on Easter

If you’re one of the roughly 2 billion Christians celebrating Easter today and you haven’t yet tried the Bing vs. Google challenge,...

townhall.com (2 months and 21 days ago)

Google’s Pixel Chromebook Has a Konami Code Easter Egg

At least one person on the team behind Google’s new Chromebook Pixel is a big-time videogame nerd. That’s because the laptop has an easter egg that’s unlocked after you type in the Konami Code.

wired.com (3 months and 27 days ago)

Easter 2013: Supermarket Easter egg costing just £5 beats Harrods and Hotel Chocolat in blind taste test

A £5 supermarket Easter egg has beaten luxury rivals costing up to £70 in an annual taste test. The Chokablok American Dreamcake egg sold at Tesco scored 84/100 to take the title of Good Housekeeping Easter Egg of the Year.

dailymail.co.uk (3 months and 23 days ago)