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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Blizzard's "StarCraft" Takes Off



"StarCraft" is the multi-million selling military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment.


Created by by Chris Metzen and James Phinney, the first game in the "StarCraft" series was released for Microsoft Windows in 1998. With more than 11 million copies sold worldwide as of February 2009, it is one of the best-selling games for the personal computer.


A Mac OS version was released in March 1999, and a Nintendo 64 adaptation co-developed with Mass Media Interactive Entertainment was released on 13 June 2000.


With its storyline adapted and expanded through a series of novels, "StarCraft" has three expansion packs and a sequel, "StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty".


"...Set in the 26th century, the game revolves around three species fighting for dominance in a distant part of the Milky Way galaxy: the 'Terrans', humans exiled from Earth skilled at adapting to any situation; the 'Zerg', a race of insectoid aliens in pursuit of genetic perfection obsessed with assimilating other races; and the 'Protoss', a humanoid species with advanced technology and psionic abilities, attempting to preserve their civilization and strict philosophical way of living from the Zerg..."

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