StarCraft also marked the creation of Blizzard Entertainment's film department the game introduced high quality cinematics integral to the storyline of the series. The game debuted at the 1996 Electronic Entertainment Expo and used a modified Warcraft II game engine. It has grown to include a number of other games as well as eight novelizations, two Amazing Stories articles, a board game, and other licensed merchandise such as collectible statues and toys.īlizzard Entertainment began planning StarCraft in 1995 with a development team led by Metzen and Phinney. The series debuted with the video game StarCraft in 1998. The series, set in the beginning of the 26th century, centers on a galactic struggle for dominance among four species-the adaptable and mobile Terrans, the ever-evolving insectoid Zerg, the powerful and enigmatic Protoss, and the godlike Xel'Naga creator race-in a distant part of the Milky Way galaxy known as the Koprulu Sector. StarCraft is a military science fiction media franchise created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney and owned by Blizzard Entertainment. Pick up my sci-fi novels Herokiller and Herokiller 2, and read my first series, The Earthborn Trilogy, which is also on audiobook.

Perhaps with Vicarious Visions on board, that will start to change, we can hope.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. Blizzard has been exceptionally silent in general for a long while now.

The same goes for the full release of Diablo Immortal, now in alpha, Diablo 4 or Overwatch 2. Like with all Blizzard projects, we currently have no timeline for the Diablo 2 remake’s arrival, which VV has already been working on for some time. As for how Vicarious Visions is feeling about this, we have no idea, as the developer has not tweeted since the news was first reported in yesterday. Though with how hollowed-out Blizzard has seemed to be lately, perhaps this is the emergency blood infusion they need.

But I think the main point is that after all the work Vicarious Visions has done for Activision over the years, they deserved better than to be a perma-Blizzard support studio and probably should have been given entire projects and IPs to themselves.

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