{"id":88885,"date":"2026-09-03T15:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88885"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:38:09","slug":"something-is-brewing-with-starcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88885","title":{"rendered":"Something Is Brewing With StarCraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With BlizzCon just a week away, there&#8217;s new reason to believe that some kind of StarCraft news is on the way. Various visual elements on the official <a href=\"https:\/\/starcraft.blizzard.com\/en-us\/\">StarCraft website<\/a> are now glitching out in a way that looks much more &#8220;hey fans, get excited&#8221; than &#8220;alert the engineering team that we&#8217;ve got a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The glitches were flagged on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johncarson.bsky.social\/post\/3mun2imf3es2b\">Bluesky<\/a> by John Carson, and they specifically appear on the section of Blizzard&#8217;s website advertising 2017&#8217;s StarCraft Remastered, rather than StarCraft II. The glitches see certain images and text become briefly distorted, though to my eye, there is nothing specific to glean from them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> An example of the StarCraft site glitches <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this sudden marketing stunt feels noteworthy given that the StarCraft franchise has largely been dormant for years. 2026 has brought rumors that something is afoot: The publisher behind Arc Raiders was said to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/starcraft-shooter-reportedly-in-works-at-arc-raiders-publisher\/1100-6538117\/\">working on a StarCraft shooter<\/a> that would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/starcraft-shooter-likely-to-be-revealed-at-blizzcon-report-suggests\/1100-6537249\/\">revealed at BlizzCon<\/a>. More recently, a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chosun.com\/english\/industry-en\/2026\/09\/03\/BJCI2EIACRBHDBIEDHV5WT54PE\/\">The Chosun Daily<\/a> claimed that Nexon was seeking the rights to develop a new RTS, possibly StarCraft III.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That <em>anything<\/em> is happening with StarCraft could come as welcome news to fans of the franchise. StarCraft II was released in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With BlizzCon just a week away, there&#8217;s new reason to believe that some kind of StarCraft news is on the way. Various visual elements on the official StarCraft website are now glitching out in a way that looks much more &#8220;hey fans, get excited&#8221; than &#8220;alert the engineering team that we&#8217;ve got a problem.&#8221; The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":88887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88888,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88885\/revisions\/88888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}