Neowin News Feed for: Starcraft

Blizzard is hiring for an open-world shooter game, possibly set in StarCraft universe

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:00:01 +0000

It seems that Blizzard is taking a third try at creating a shooter experience in the StarCraft universe, as a job posting has revealed a mysterious AAA project. Read more...

COD Black Ops 6 leads a packed late October schedule for Game Pass subscribers

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:47:57 +0000

Microsoft has a packed second half of October ready for Xbox Game Pass subscribers, bringing the latest Call of Duty, Obsidian's South Park entry, Dead Island 2, and much more. Read more...

Blizzard may have new StarCraft shooter in the works, insider suggests

Omer Dursun — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:08:01 +0000

Blizzard may be incubating its third attempt at a StarCraft shooter, according to Jason Schreier. Previous titles were canceled after years of development as the game struggled to find its vision. Read more...

Nvidia GeForce NOW adds more Blizzard games and Manor Lords to its cloud service this week

John Callaham — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:44:01 +0000

The Nvidia GeForce NOW cloud gaming service is adding more older Blizzard games to its library this week, along with the highly anticipated historical city builder game Manor Lords, and more. Read more...

Here's when and where to watch the BlizzCon 2023 livestream and what to expect

John Callaham — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:52:02 +0000

Blizzard is holding BlizzCon 2023 starting Friday, Nov. 3 by live-streaming its opening ceremony at 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m. Eastern time), with new games and expansions expected to be revealed. Read more...

Diablo IV servers and other Blizzard games were hit briefly by a DDoS attack Sunday

John Callaham — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 14:58:59 +0000

The DDoS attack on the Diablo IV servers affected latency and connections for players of Blizzard's popular action-RPG game along with the company's other online games, but it has now been dealt with. Read more...

Blizzard finally brings back the in-person BlizzCon to Anaheim, California on November 3-4

John Callaham — Wed, 17 May 2023 17:52:01 +0000

The fan gathering for all things Blizzard Entertainment will host its first in-person event in four years at the Anaheim Convention Center on November 3-4, with more details to be revealed later. Read more...

Phil Spencer wants to revive dormant Activision Blizzard franchises like Hexen

Asher Madan — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:36:01 +0000

In a new interview with The Washington Post, head of Microsoft Gaming Phil Spencer said that he wants to revive dormant Activision Blizzard franchises like Hexen and StarCraft once the deal finalizes. Read more...

Blizzard will make StarCraft II free-to-play this month

Florin Bodnarescu — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:26:01 +0000

At its BlizzCon 2017 event in Anaheim, Blizzard has announced that it's making the original Wings of Liberty campaign and other parts of StarCraft II free-to-play later this month. Read more...

StarCraft: Remastered arrives for Windows and Mac on August 14, pre-orders available now

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:36:01 +0000

Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft: Remastered finally has a release date, with the company announcing that the real-time strategy game will be released on August 14 for Windows and Mac. Read more...

South Korean presidential candidate releases custom StarCraft maps to promote his campaign

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 10:34:02 +0000

South Korean presidential candidate, Moon Jae-in, has opted for a different promotional campaign than what we are used to by launching two custom-made maps for the original StarCraft. Read more...

Fight the Swarm once more by downloading Starcraft and Brood War for free

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:16:01 +0000

You can relive fond memories of fighting the swarm, or get depressed about losing Kerrigan all over again, as Blizzard has made Starcraft and its Brood War expansion free for PCs and Macs. Read more...

Blizzard Entertainment announces StarCraft: Remastered, releasing this summer

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:16:03 +0000

StarCraft and its Brood War expansion are getting a remaster this summer, with upgraded visuals and audio while keeping the gameplay untouched. The originals are going free later this week. Read more...

Blizzard to hold 2013 BlizzCon on November 8-9

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:47:47 +0000

Blizzard announced that it will hold the 2013 edition of its BlizzCon fan event on November 8-9 in Anaheim, California but tickets for the event are not yet on sale. Read more...

The Art of Blizzard hardcover book coming in October

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:42:35 +0000

Insight Editions will publish The Art of Blizzard in October, a 352 page hardcover book with nearly 800 art pieces from Blizzard's many game franchises, along with commentary from team members. Read more...

New Google Easter Egg "destroys" search results

John Callaham — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:53:21 +0000

A newly found Google Easter Egg "destroys" a person's search results on the site when they type in "zerg rush" in the search box, in an apparent homage to the Starcraft game series. Read more...

Blizzard: Diablo 3 hits Beta

Owen Williams — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:59:29 +0000

The next big hit from Blizzard is just around the corner, with Blizzard announcing the beta of Diablo 3. The game has been in development since 2000, and is Blizzards latest release since Starcraft 2. Read more...

World of StarCraft development continued as Starcraft Universe

Julio Franco — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:52:48 +0000

The group of modders that got impatient with Blizzard and decided to create World of StarCraft are still at it. The project has simply been reborn under the name StarCraft Universe (SCU). The focus is... Read more...

TechSpot: StarCraft II Wings of Liberty GPU & CPU Performance

Julio Franco — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:32:00 +0000

It's been more than a decade since the original StarCraft was released, but unlike a wide majority of the titles released in this time frame, the game never really faded away throughout the years and... Read more...

South Korea rocked by Starcraft cheating scandal

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:48:01 +0000

It's a well-established fact that South Koreans take their gaming very seriously. The country sports a thriving professional gaming industry, known as e-sports in the gaming world. The tournaments and events are held in lavish,... Read more...

UC Berkeley offering StarCraft course

Sam Symons — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:11:04 +0000

UC Berkeley is offering a new course for 2009 on the "art of competitive StarCraft", as well as how to enjoy the game. As yet, the course is not listed on the UC Berkeley website,... Read more...

Blizzard announces Starcraft 2 is coming

Sat, 19 May 2007 05:27:11 +0000

Blizzard WWI in Seoul, South Korea - Blizzard has unveiled that the long-awaited video game it is developing goes by the name of "Starcraft 2". That's right. Starcraft 2 is coming! They sure took their... Read more...

Blizzard 'will' announce a new game May 19th - Starcraft 2?!

Todd Tanner — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:27:12 +0000

As most of you know Blizzard is responsible for some of the biggest game franchises of all time. There is Diablo, Starcraft, and of course Warcraft. Well rumors have been flying online the past few... Read more...

Blizzard Dropping Starcraft 2 Hint?

Todd Tanner — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:55:39 +0000

Blizzard fans were out in force in London tonight, celebrating the launch of the much anticipated World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion, but another Blizzard game might have stolen the limelight. Itzik Ben Bassat,... Read more...

GC 2006: StarCraft 2 Hints Dropped?

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:37:35 +0000

While our meeting with Blizzard Chief Operating Officer Paul Sams today at the German Games Convention mainly focused on The Burning Crusade, the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, we did ask him about what... Read more...

StarCraft 1.11 patch has been released

Sat, 01 May 2004 15:08:14 +0000

Thanks xStainDx for this. On Wednesday, FileShack has reported that the new StarCraft patch version 1.11 has been made available for users. Here's the list of what's new... Changes in StarCraft 1.11:... Read more...

StarCraft, Diablo II, and Warcraft III Accounts Closed

Marcel Klum — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 12:18:35 +0000

A number of additional accounts and CD Keys have been tied to the use of a hack or cheat program while playing StarCraft, Diablo II, or Warcraft III on Battle.net. In keeping with our aggressive... Read more...