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Tychus J. Findlay was a terran marine with a larcenous attitude. He was an old friend of Jim Raynor. (more...)
StarCraft Universe
The StarCraft franchise is a series of real-time strategy (RTS) computer games developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It is similar to Blizzard's previous hit franchise, Warcraft, except that it has a space opera setting rather than a high fantasy setting. StarCraft was the best selling video game of 1998, and was so successful that Blizzard estimated in 2004 that 9.5 million copies had been sold since its release (4.5 million copies in South Korea), making it the third best-selling computer game in history. StarCraft is praised for being a benchmark of RTS for its depth, intensity, and balanced races. The main storyline of the series revolves around a war between three galactic species: the protoss (a race of humanoid religious warriors), the zerg (vile insect-like aliens who share a hive mind) and the terrans (initially, descendants of human prisoners from Earth). The sequel, StarCraft II, is a trilogy with each "chapter" focusing on one of the three species.
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StarCraft News
| For past news, see the news archive. |
| 10th May—New Balance Changes |
| Blizzard updated StarCraft II today using a new format. Instead of a patch, the changes are made when the servers undergo maintenance. See StarCraft II version history for the latest changes. |
| 7th May—Heart of the Swarm Developer Update |
| Blizzard released a developer update for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm today. Potential updates include a system to restore an interrupted multiplayer game (eg in an esports tournament), the ability to create different accounts for different parts of the world, and a clan system. |
| 11th April—Heart of the Swarm info |
| Blizzard released new information for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, such as new unit ideas and the cancellation of the replicant and shredder. Read the changes and reasoning here. |
| 31st March—April Fools |
| Blizzard "announced" several news items for April Fool's, 2012, such as the "new game" StarCraft: Supply Depot. |
| 2nd March—StarCraft Master challenges released |
| Blizzard Entertainment released StarCraft Master, a series of 30 challenges today. |
| 21st February—StarCraft II Patch 1.4.3 released |
| Blizzard released patch 1.4.3.21029 today. Added an attack range upgrade to the Phoenix and balance changes on ghost's snipe and MULE. |
| 10th February—RISK: StarCraft announced |
| Blizzard announced a RISK: StarCraft boardgame, due in the summer of 2012. |
| 9th February—Preview of season 6 maps |
| Blizzard previewed two season 6 maps, Cloud Kingdom and Korhal Compound. Season 6 starts February 14th. |
| 8th November—StarCraft II Patch 1.4.2 released |
| Blizzard released patch 1.4.2.20141 today. Few bug fixes and changes to the forge and ghost. |
| 29th September—StarCraft II Patch 1.4.1 released |
| Blizzard released patch 1.4.1.19776 today. Few bug fixes. |
| 20th September—StarCraft II Patch 1.4 released |
| Blizzard released the massive patch 1.4.0.19679 today. See the notes here. |
| 24th August—StarCraft II PTR Patch 1.4 out |
| Blizzard released a massive balance and bugfix patch on the public test realm. Read the detailed notes. |
| 3rd August—StarCraft II: Starter Edition |
| An enhanced demo package for Wings of Liberty called the Starter Edition is now available. |
| 28th July—Patch 1.3.6 live |
| Blizzard released patch 1.3.6.19269 today. Few bug fixes. At the same time, battle.net server went down for a while. |
| 25th/26th July—BlizzCon site and Battle.net season 3 starts |
| Blizzard has launched the new BlizzCon site here, and battle.net season 3 has started with a number of changes on the ladder map pool. |
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