Blizzard announces StarCraft Remastered. Makes the original free, too.
Blizzard is bringing classic StarCraft back, making the 1998 RTS and its expansion freely downloadable while teasing a high-definition Remastered release for summer. Blizzard has announced it is bringing back its classic sci-fi real-time strategy (RTS) StarCraft in ‚Remastered‘ form, boasting new graphics and support for 4K resolutions – and to help build hype it’s making the original release available free of charge.
Launched in March 1998 and expanded with the Brood War add-on in November that year, Blizzard’s StarCraft puts the player in charge of one of three species – Terran, Zerg, or Protoss – in a clash of high-tech and bio-inspired weaponry. A massive critical success, StarCraft languished as Blizzard concentrated on its Diablo action role-playing and World of Warcraft massively multiplayer on-line role playing games; in 2010 the story continued with StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first version to include a 3D engine, followed by the Heart of the Swarm expansion in 2013 and Legacy of the Void in 2015.
