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- Aug 14, 201790% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
StarCraft Remastered
- Blizzard announced StarCraft: Remastered on 29 June 2017 for worldwide launch on 14 August 2017 at US$14.99 (GBP 12.99) for Windows and Mac[1][3][4]
- Pre-purchasers before 14 August get three building skins (Char Hive, Korhal Command Center, Aiur Nexus); all purchasers get StarCraft II bonuses including the Alexei Stukov co-op commander and three portraits[1][3][4]
- CEO Mike Morhaime said passionate gamers are still playing Brood War, so Blizzard is modernizing the technology behind StarCraft[1][3]
Notable features
- StarCraft: Remastered is a real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Windows and macOS, a remaster of the 1998 StarCraft and its Brood War expansion, and the first release of Blizzard's Classic Games division[2]
- It modernizes the original StarCraft and the Brood War expansion with widescreen UHD up to 4K, higher fidelity music and sound, and a one-click switch between Remastered and the original; gameplay is said to be unchanged[1][3][4]
- New features include matchmaking and leaderboards, player profiles, and cloud saving for campaign progress, hotkeys and replays[1][3][4]
- It stays compatible with the existing StarCraft, so upgraded players can play those on the original[3][4]
- It is localized into English, Brazilian Portuguese, European and Latin American Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and simplified and traditional Chinese[1][3]
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- [1]90%hexus.net/gaming/news/pc/107491-starcraft-remastered-gets-launch-date-14th-augusthexus.net· Posted Aug 2, 2017· Starts Aug 14, 2017 ✓· 0% of score
Happened as dated, per hexus.net: "…In a nutshell, StarCraft Remastered is released on 14th August and it's priced online right now for…"
- [2]78%StarCraft: Remastered - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 22, 2026· 100% of score
Wikipedia's StarCraft: Remastered article says it "is a 2017 real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Windows and MacOS", a remaster of StarCraft and Brood War and the first project of the Classic Games division.
- [3]95%Ready to Roll Out! StarCraft: Remastered Arrives August 14blizzard.gamespress.com· Published Aug 14, 2017· 0% of score
Blizzard's own press site headline - "Ready to Roll Out! StarCraft: Remastered Arrives August 14" - is the primary-source announcement of the pin's claimed date, though the page itself returned an authorization error and could not be directly verified.[1]
- [4]85%Blizzard reveal StarCraft: Remastered's release datepcgamesn.com· Published Aug 14, 2017· 0% of score
PCGamesN confirms Blizzard revealed "StarCraft: Remastered will be available August 14, 2017," matching the pin's stored date exactly.
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