StarCraft

4 months - Check out the trailer for the new StarCraft Tabletop Miniatures Game! The battlefield is set. The miniatures are ready. And the war begins. Prepare for battle!

11 months, 1 week - Channel Protoss power in Diablo 4. Check out the Diablo 4 x StarCraft trailer for this collaboration, which features the ability to unlock limited-time StarCraft cosmetics and strike like a High Templar. The Diablo 4 x StarCraft trailer showcases The Queen of Blades Spiritborn bundle, Zergling Rush mount bundle, Heaven's Devil druid bundle, Overqueen of the Swarm necromancer bundle, and more.

1 year, 11 months - Any Horizon fans hoping to see a sequel to Zero Dawn and Forbidden West may be in for a letdown, as industry insider and Bloomberg reporter Jason Schrier claims Guerilla Games’ next project is a live-service online multiplayer game set in the Horizon universe. A third mainline seems likely, but it’s apparently “a ways off.” In other news, also reported by Jason Schrier, Netflix has original shows in development based on Starcraft, Diablo and Overwatch, but they were scrapped after Netflix pursued legal action against Activision-Blizzard over allegedly poaching its CFO. Considering how gorgeous Blizzard’s cinematic cutscenes have always been, it seems like a missed opportunity, but maybe we’ll see these IPs get adapted somewhere else. Prime Video’s Secret Level, maybe? Finally, Tekken chief Katsuhiro Harada revealed in an interview that he’d tried to get KFC to agree to put founder-turned-mascot Colonel Sanders in the fighting game as a playable character, but didn’t have any luck. But, we’ve gotten a KFC dating sim starring the Colonel since then, so who knows?

3 years, 1 month - Welcome back to Next-Gen Console Watch, our show following all the news and rumors on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series. This week Max Scoville is filling in for Daemon Hatfield, and he's joined by Ryan McCaffrey, host of IGN’s Xbox podcast, Podcast Unlocked, and IGN News Director Kat Bailey. The topic: Microsoft pulled off a huge legal win, convincing the court that their proposed purchase of Activision Blizzard will not limit access to Call of Duty games, among other things. So now what does Sony do? And what are Xbox's next steps, since the acquisition is not yet final? And we have last week's poll results, plus a new poll for you to vote on at IGN.com.

9 years, 4 months - Blizzard has showered a fan in rewards after the return of a lost master source code disc for the original 1998 StarCraft.