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Bethesda’s Big Elder Scrolls Tease Quietly Reveals New Xbox Strategy
The title reveal for The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel fits a pattern with Blizzard's Diablo 5 and StarCraft unveilings
Deployed and Ready - Deployment Basics in StarCraft: The Miniatures Game
This week in StarCraft we're talking about one of the fundamentals in play for the game on the table: Deployment!
Tabletop Battles Previews: StarCraft Tabletop Miniatures Game Wave 3
Condit's previewing Wave 3 of StarCraft Tabletop Miniatures Game, which adds another hero, unit, and card for each of the factions!
Not So Massively: StarCraft II players reject your balance and substitute their own with the Patches mod
Back in the summer, I expressed my concern with Blizzard’s reckless approach to patching StarCraft II and Heroes of the Storm in recent times. At the time, SC2 had just released one of its most sweeping patches in history, and no one really knew how it was going to shake out. While I was concerned...
[StarCraft TMG] Wave 2 Models: Ravagers, Siege Tanks, Immortals, Oh My
Wave 2 of StarCraft TMG's models are here, and Toll takes a look at big boys for each army -- the Immortal, the Ravager, and the Siege Tank.
Ben Affleck lost 3 years to Starcraft, has strong Valorant opinions, and mourns RTSes as a genre, so there's solid odds he's one of our regular commenters
He's also handsome and wealthy. I'm beginning to think we're the same guy.
Ben Affleck played StarCraft for 3 years straight after getting famous
Ben Affleck is known to most as an actor, but he recently revealed how much of a fan of PC gaming he really is. He breaks down his history with games like StarCraft and DOOM before commenting on more modern games he plays today.
Ben Affleck says "all I did was stay home for 3 years and play StarCraft" after finding fame
Batman and Good Will Hunting actor Ben Affleck says that his early years of fame were defined by staying at home and playing an unfathomable amount of Starcraft. Speaking to Josh Horowitz on Happy Sad Confused, Affleck is asked what his favorite video game of all time is, more specifically "what...
Ben Affleck says "all I did was stay home for 3 years and play StarCraft" after finding fame
"I just get f***in' rocked"
StarCraft TMG FAQs and Organized Play Roundtable
Some of our StarCraft TMG players react to not only the recent FAQs for the game but the Organised Play rules that have been released.
OpenAI’s newest AI cheated at StarCraft after it couldn’t beat a human-made bot
GPT-6 Astra lost at StarCraft, so it downloaded the top human-made bot and entered that instead.
StarCraft II is reverting its deeply unpopular in-game economy changes in latest PTR build
StarCraft II doesn’t really often make headlines around here, which is fine because sometimes a game just truckin’ along is good enough for us. However, there was a tinderbox of player anger that got lit up with the patch that landed in June, which made several tweaks to some of the costs and...
40K Weekend Update: The 2026 Las Vegas Open
We're back from a busy weekend at the LVO, with a new first-time champion for the event and the floor debuts of Gundam and StarCraft TMG.
When an AI couldn’t win in StarCraft, it did the next-best thing: downloaded a human-made bot
Big human W. The post When an AI couldn’t win in StarCraft, it did the next-best thing: downloaded a human-made bot appeared first on Destructoid.
An OpenAI model was caught trying to cheat at StarCraft, and of course it did it by stealing a human's work
GPT-6 Astra tried to get a leg-up in Blizzard's RTS by pilfering a human-created bot.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing At StarCraft And Decides To Cheat Instead
In a showdown between AI generated Brood War bots and human made ones, OpenAI’s champion resorted to its natural playbook: lie, cheat and steal
Blizzard walks back Starcraft 2's huge 2026 redesign, promising to try again later
The Starcraft 2 update 5.0.17 is now on the PTR, and the patch notes undo almost all the balance changes from its big multiplayer overhaul.
StarCraft's Open-World Shooter Is Already Dodging the Live-Service Trap Sci-Fi FPS Games Keep Falling Into
As a refreshing break from live-service fatigue, it seems Blizzard's new StarCraft will be a narrative-driven open-world FPS with a definitive ending.
Starcraft Shooter “Won’t Be Exclusive” to Xbox, Says Blizzard
Blizzard’s keeping us guessing, and we must admit it’s rather fun this way with Xbox in play and every other platform a possibility.
Blizzard confirms StarCraft "won't be exclusive" to Xbox and refuses to elaborate
Curious…
StarCraft Doesn’t Sound Like An Xbox Exclusive
StarCraft won't be an Xbox exclusive, though Blizzard isn't exactly making it clear what platforms the newly announced shooter will launch on. Announced during BlizzCon 2026 with a 2030 release date, Blizzard's StarCraft reboot won't "be exclusive," according to Kotaku, who received a comment from...
The StarCraft shooter won’t just be on Xbox, but Blizzard is being kind of weird about what that means
You would be forgiven for thinking that the question of whether an upcoming game is going to be exclusive to a platform or if it will be on multiple platforms was an easy one to answer. If you’re Blizzard, however, you would be oddly cagey in relation to its upcoming StarCraft shooter, at least...
Blizzard Breaks Silence on Upcoming StarCraft Game Exclusivity
A new statement from Blizzard confirms the company's plans for the new StarCraft game's exclusivity when it launches in 2030.
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