In StarCraft II league play, 2013 Season 3 has begun! Bonus pools and standings have been reset, and 2013 Season 2 milestones have been awarded. You can take a look at your 2013 Season 2 results by visiting the Leagues and Ladders section of the game. Reminder: the hidden skill ratings used for matchmaking and […]

Now that Season 1 of 2013 World Championship Series competition is well under way in Europe, Korea, and America, tons of epic StarCraft II games are being played. With three ongoing regional competitions, a variety of broadcast dates and times, and hundreds of players earning WCS Points at events around the world, we understand that […]

In keeping with our goal of providing a variety of map styles within the ladder pool, we created three new 1v1 maps and two new 2v2 maps that should shake up gameplay this season. However, making additions to the ladder pool means we’ll need to swap out a few of last season’s maps. Before we […]

The latest StarCraft short story is here. Read “Acid Burns,” a harrowing tale of the zerg Swarm’s ingenuity going face-to-maw with terran resilience. When a sleepy Dominion listening post’s tranquility is disturbed by a zerg surprise attack, the base’s forces find themselves fighting against a terrifying enemy, bringing with it a deadly sense of déjà […]

Team Liquid has organized a new map contest for aspiring melee map designers. The last Team Liquid map contest yielded some awesome 1v1 tournament maps that made it into the official ladder pool, including Ohana and Cloud Kingdom. We’re very excited to see what people come up with in the first map contest since the […]

Attention, StarCraft II ladder competitors! 2013 Season 2 is now locked. At the end of each ladder season, leagues are “locked,” which means players can no longer be promoted or demoted out of their current league or division, and bonus pools will stop growing. That’s no reason to quit playing: even after leagues are locked, […]

While the work (and play!) never ends here at Blizzard, we’ve also spent the last few weeks celebrating StarCraft’s 15th anniversary. We’ve been truly humbled by the outpouring from you—our amazing community—who have joined us in this celebration by submitting personal videos and pictures that we will treasure forever. We compiled a few of the […]

Today, we are excited to share with you some additional information regarding the 2013 World Championship Series, as well as insight into some of the decisions we’ve made for the new format. We redesigned the World Championship Series to help accomplish one of our primary goals—level up the eSports scene by building the type of […]

The next StarCraft short story is here! Travel to an exotic jungle planet, marvel at the beautiful scenery, then run like hell from the local wildlife threatening to tear you to shreds. Welcome to “Great One.” Marine platoon Torch Seven drops onto the faraway planet Vygoire to find out what happened to a science outpost […]

Those who’ve been around the custom game scene since the Warcraft III days may be filled with nostalgia after checking out this week’s featured Arcade game. Inspired by a Warcraft III map, Pimp My Footman has the player taking control of a handful of lowly basic infantry units. These solders can then be ‘pimped out’ […]