DeepMind’s AlphaStar artificial intelligence was recently put to work trying to master the real-time complexities of Blizzard’s StarCraft II. Which it successfully managed in just over six weeks, becoming the first non-human to reach the rank of Grandmaster in the game.

Computer scientists at DeepMind have developed an artificially intelligent bot capable of defeating the world’s best players at StarCraft II, the popular real-time strategy video game.

Blizzard is going to release a graphics pack for Starcraft: Remastered that transforms the game, giving it the look of Carbot Animations’ Starcrafts series.

It’s not every day there’s a big StarCraft II tournament going on, and this weekend’s could offer a rematch of one of last year’s great showdowns.

The Curse of Tristram: Destruction's End, a mod that takes the main campaign of Diablo II and recreates it using the StarCraft II engine, has been four years in the making. This weekend, creator Etienne Godbout finally released a playable version to the public on a test server.

Way back in 2009, Blizzard announced that StarCraft II would include a map marketplace with options to buy and sell custom maps. Years later, the StarCraft II team is finally following through.

Last weekend marked the 20th anniversary of the StarCraft franchise and a couch of StarCraft personalities including Sean "Day9" Plott, Nick "Tasteless" Plott, Daniel "Artosis" Stemkoski, and Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson led yesterday's festivities. Names from throughout the series' decades showed up to play showmatches, including HuK, WhiteRa, Idra and Ret.

The first few months of Overwatch League's inaugural season have already resulted in unexpected upsets, emerging tactics, and drama between players that has resulted in pros getting fined, benched, or released from teams. That stuff isn't just fun to follow and grist for the content mines: it's moving betting lines.

StarCraft is reportedly dead, though for a corpse the exact time and cause of death are proving difficult to pin down.

StarCraft 2 might not pull in the massive viewer numbers of Overwatch or League of Legends, but a tournament in Poland this past week proved that Blizzard's real-time strategy game is still thriving as an esport.

You may wonder, every once in a while: How do I get great at StarCraft II? I cannot answer that question. But I can at least tell you how to be decent at it.

Earlier this week, Sasha "Scarlett" Hostyn made StarCraft history at IEM Pyeongchang 2018, defeating two-time world champion sOs. Last night, she chalked up more wins against the world's best. Scarlett is shaking up the modern StarCraft scene one game at a time and shows no sign of slowing down.

Sasha "Scarlett" Hostyn made history for both women and non-Korean StarCraft pros yesterday by placing first in a premier tournament, IEM Pyeongchang 2018. The Canadian defeated two-time world champion Kim "sOs" Yoo Jin playing as the Zerg, her old standby, in a 4-1 victory. She's the second North American pro to ever place first at a major StarCraft 2 tournament in South Korea.

There isn't a StarCraft anime, but if there were, perhaps it would look like this?

These are Banelings, creepy, crawly little Zergling suicide bombers, and you probably want to be careful when chasing them, especially in a pro level StarCraft match.

Once this year's tournament season is done in November, Blizzard are looking to make some "major design changes" to StarCraft II's units and economy.

For years, Blizzard faithful have been clamoring for a remake or remaster of Diablo II, and now that StarCraft's remaster is fresh out of the hatchery, they have only gotten louder. One fan is trying to give them the next best thing.

The StarCraft soundtrack helps me win. And I'm not the only one who thinks so.

One of the great tragedies in video game history is the demise of StarCraft: Ghost, a game that spent nearly a decade in development hell before fizzling completely. Although we'll likely never play that game, there exists a decent substitute inside of a game Blizzard did release -- StarCraft II.