StarCraft: Remastered Lands this Summer in 4K Resolution

If you were a fan of StarCraft from way back in the day the latest announcement for Blizzard will have you jumping for joy. At the I<3 StarCraft event in South Korea over the weekend Blizzard announced that StarCraft would be refreshed and released again. The game will be called StarCraft: Remastered.

The remastering will see the game get updated for 4K graphics and gain support for the Blizzard App. That means the game will be launchable via the PC client used for other popular games like Overwatch and Hearthstone. Players will be able to matchmake with players of similar skills and level.

One thing Blizzard isn’t changing is the gameplay reports Kotaku. The revamped version will make it easier to zoom in and out on the field go aply to give more details or less depending on what you want to see. The single player campaign will get refreshed narrative as well. However, Blizzard promises that the original balance of gameplay will carry over to Remastered.

Blizzard will also be remastering and relaunching the Brood War expansion pack as well. An exact launch date is unannounced for now, all we know is later this summer. To hold you over in the meantime once patch 1.18 rolls out the original game and the Brood War expansion will be free to download. That patch is the first patch for the game in eight years. This is great news for fans.

StarCraft is a classic game to say the least and helped define the entire RTS genre when it launched originally. I’m as excited about the original version and the expansion going free to play as I am the remastered version coming in a few months.