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Play Multiplayer Maps on Battle.net by Daimakaicho and Coldragon

We can't yet upload maps on battle.net so we can't officially play multiplayer custom maps. However we have found a way to bypass the system long time ago by changing the game cache files. As this is a really annoying process, Daimakaicho and Coldragon made a simple program that does it for you.

Do this process for all the friends you want to play with:

• Create the map "Lost Temple" on Battle.net and everyone join it
• Launch the map patcher
• Select the map you want to play and click "Patch"
• Go back to SC2 and start the game

Battle.net map upload is going to be released before the end of the Beta within a few weeks. This technique is a temporary workaround that should let you start doing multiplayer maps right away!

Contest Result by Tehwildcard

Tehwildcard contest to make a loading screen for his Kitty Run map has ended. GardenOfAiur won it thanks to an amazing loading screen and is being rewarded by a beta key! shaotang and ThisIsSpoofed are granted an honorable mention and we will make our possible to find them beta keys. I would like to thanks agweber for its contribution.

Bob the Zergling by MachinimaMat

The second cinematic is already there! MachinimaMat give us little fun with Bob the Zergling. If you've got more cinematics done, please contact me, I would really like to push the Starcraft II machinimas in front of the scene :)

MPQ Editor by Ladik

Ladik since the release of Starcraft II Beta has been working hard making his MPQ Editor and releases a beta of the version 3. All the Starcraft II maps and MPQ files are not fully editable without bugs. You can even increase the number of files a map can contains. If you are using Ladik MPQ Editor, I strongly suggest you to get the latest version.