StarCraft

Three genuinely asymmetric factions plus Battle.net made RTS the foundation of esports.

Released 1998 Developer Blizzard Entertainment Platform PC Genre RTS Era The 3D rupture Website us.blizzard.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas StarCraft inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

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