Blizzard Announces New Starcraft Game

About a zillion readers wrote in to tell us about all the commotion over at the Blizzard site. Following a countdown, they've announced the latest Starcraft game, Starcraft: Ghost. Note that this game will be console-only, and the FAQ is very adamant that this is not a Starcraft 2.

Comments

Bleh

[dswensen]

A couple years ago or so, when many were heralding the imminent doom of PC games when the next-generation consoles (X-Box, PS2, Gamecube) came out, I sneered and jeered along with the rest of them. PC games, affected at all by these upstart consoles? Ha-ha, ho-ho, it is to laugh!

Now comes Starcraft Ghost, and I'm no longer laughing. Sure, they may turn it out for the PC at some point (maybe), but it's obvious the console gamers are now getting first pick at Blizzard's new titles. And this isn't some new Mario title or kart-racing game that I couldn't give a tinker's damn about -- this is Starcraft. That's a big deal.

Not that it will be a selling point for me -- unfortunately, the disposable income to keep up with the technology curve on both the console and PC front is not a luxury I have right now. And so I find myself reacting to the release of a new Starcraft title not with the excitement and joy that I'd hoped, but with mixed disappointment and dread. Gee, thanks, Blizzard.

Re:Bleh

[shut_up_man]

I'm not sure Starcraft Ghost is a first-tier title though, it sounds more like a bit of an experiment. I feels like Blizzard are licensing the Starcraft brand, and getting Nihilistic to do all the work. I won't be buying a console system just for this game, unlike if it was... Warcraft 3. Or Starcraft 2.

Which console?

[Fractal Law]

Both the FAQ and the press release fail to mention which console Starcraft:Ghost is being developed for.

Does anyone have any further information?

Nothing, not even a Blizzard game, will compell me to buy an XBox.

Difference between Russia and Japan

[yerricde]

Your comment uses the poetic device of parallelism to equate video game production in Russia with video game production in Japan. The difference here is that the North American console gaming population is much more familiar with Japanese video game culture than with Russian video game culture (excluding one particular Russian game).

Re:STOP TOUCHING ME!!!

[TheCyko1]

FOOLS! Know you nothing of the amusment tools created by the god of life beknownst to all as Blizzard? Surely thou hast testified to the very first Warcraft. Where our bretherin fought hard against the green skinned monsters of the dreaded Portal. T'was after a unrelented berating, fom my tool of control, that my lacky, the footman, said to me "stop touching me" and after that, when i commanded the great armies of the Alliance, yet another one of my many loyal men, angered by my constant clicking, boldly stood forth and asked "are you still touching me?" Tis a pity, though, for the tradition wasn't continued by the footmen of the new alliance, rather our forsaken enemies, of whom were were forced to create an unholy alliance to save our very existance. As i recal, after many a prodings at one of my orc underlings, he told me something that took me quite aback "i'm not that kind of orc" he said. I was unsure, of course, as to how to respond to this, i merely just kept touching him. It was wonderful. Alas, a simple straght forward answer to your question, the quote of witch you speak of is from the game that spawned it all, the very first, the classic, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans.