By Joe Osborne
Any gamer who came up in the ‘90s or earlier remembers StarCraft. Even you didn’t, there’s no way you haven’t heard of it. That’s because Blizzard Entertainment’s seminal sci-fi, real-time strategy game changed the landscape of online and competitive gaming forever.
This year, StarCraft turned 20 years old, and to commemorate Blizzard released a remastered version of the game this past April that painstakingly recreated it – weird quirks and exploits and all – for HD screens and modern operating systems.
If you’re a competitive online gamer worth your salt, you owe quite a bit a to this game regardless of whether you played it back in the day, as so many of today’s online multiplayer games rest on this one title’s massive shoulders.
To ring out TechRadar’s fourth annual PC Gaming Week with a bang, we chatted with Blizzard Entertainment Vice President of Technology Strategy Robert Bridenbecker all about the original StarCraft. In particular, we reminisced about the early days of Battle.net and discussed the massive impact it had on online gaming writ large.
Because there was simply too much enlightening conversation during our 30-minute conversation, what follows is a direct transcript that’s been edited for brevity and clarity.
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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