No patch for you! Yet.

Blizzard tossed this up on their Starcraft II patch notes page:

Update (July 29 6:45 p.m. PDT): After deploying Patch 2.0.10 to the Southeast Asia region of Battle.net today we've discovered an issue that's going to require us to delay the patching process in all other reed out to everyone worldwide as soon as possible!Sit tight! We'll have more news on this as the issue is resolved.gions by a day or so. We're hard at work resolving the issue and will be getting the patch rolled out to everyone worldwide as soon as possible!Sit tight! We'll have more news on this as the issue is resolved.

So yeah, it's still coming. "Soon." Full patch notes are available here.

Gearbox outbid Stardock for Homeworlds rights

In fairness, Borderlands 2 is really quite good.

So... Stardock was one of the companies in a bidding war with Gearbox over the rights to the Homeworld series. Look, I know, bigger pockets win and Gearbox is riding high on their Borderlands franchise. But I mean, ouch.

Stardock's Sins of a Solar Empire is a nearly perfect space opera RTS. It is well designed, balanced and plays wonderfully. You can zoom in and watch your ships battle it out in real time. Though, keep in mind if you spend much time actually ogling the battle field at one planet the rest of your galactic empire is probably being pounded into dirt.  That's war people. No time to smell the charred roses if you want to win.

By comparison, Gearbox... and let me preface this by saying I freakin' love Borderlands 2... gave us Aliens: Colonial Marines. A game that has been pretty heavily panned. Now full disclosure: I haven't played it. If someone wants to toss me a copy I'll happily offer my own thoughts. But I still haven't forgiven Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof for what they did to the Aliens universe with Prometheus.

I mean really? They made us and just were all of a sudden, screw those guys, lets make a goo that makes xenomorphs, eventually, through a process that makes sense to no one. Oh, yeah, spoilers or something.

Anyway Gearbox head Randy Pitchford explained the bidding war at their panel at Pax Australia. Play.tm has the story.

Blizzard's next endeavor? The Lord of Mediation.

I'm not really sure which of the Prime Evils the attorneys work for directly.
Image from a Diablo III wallpaper available here.

Activision Blizzard Inc. is headed for arbitration with a group of gamers upset about a security breach last August, according to an article by Jeffrey Benzing at Main Justice. Both parties have a Sept. 15 deadline to reach a settlement, which is far sooner than Blizzard's usual timeline of "Soon."

At the time, user account data was stolen and scrambled. It's possible an intern broke into tears and shook his fist toward an uncaring god.

The suit alleges that Activision Blizzard didn't do enough to protect player data. Oh, and maybe they weren't so hot at letting folks know some was playing tiddlywinks in their servers.

In fairness, Activision Blizzard's attorney's have pointed out that an increased risk of identity theft is not itself enough for a negligence claim. They also note that none of the aggrieved gamers have shown proof that they were actually harmed by the breach.

In, short, Activision Blizzard is saying if the gamers  want to see the money, then they need to show where they lost it.

Regardless, according to Benzing's article all parties will be going into mediation in order to reach a settlement.

EA tells players, "Whoa there big boy, you've got the wrong guys"

Leading into EA's annual stockholder meeting on July 31, they are calling for a dismissal in the lawsuit brought by current and former NCAA football players concerning image rights. The players contend they were never compensated for the use of their likeness in EA Sport's popular NCAA series.

According to an article over at Gamasutra, EA contends that the player's complaint is with the NCAA and it's governing rules. In otherwords, "not our problem, dawg."

EA's stock on the NASDAQ was up 2.32 percent at the close of regular trading on July 30, 2013, finishing the day at $26.07.