Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty became the number one selling game at the E-tailer GameStop.com. By Friday April 30th, the sequel to the massively popular RTS game StarCraft reached the number #1 with relative ease. Blizzard announced two different versions of the game, the standard version and the Collector’s version. The collector’s Edition will include 176-page art book, 2GB USB flash drive with replica of Raynor’s dog tag, behind the scenes DVD, the OST, Comic book, World of Warcraft in-game pet, and DLC contents from Battle.net. This is not surprising as StarCraft 2 has been in development for long time with massive fan base. Rumor has it hitting the street around June.
There was some rumor going around about original Starcraft appearing on iPad. The rumor picked up some steam with Blizzard announcing Mac version of Starcraft 2 beta launch. Even with the slow development cycle, the iPad owners had hoped to see the original hit on their device. Recently, Dustin Browder, the lead designer for Starcraft 2, shot down the rumor stating that they are not working on porting original Starcraft for iPad. He states that they are not actively developing for iPad.
The primary reason for the lack of iPad release seems to be control issue. Blizzard is primarily known for developing for PC community. Only time they strayed away from PC was the Starcraft version on N64. Even so, it wasn’t received all that well. The iPad’s main control of touch screen scheme isn’t suited well for Blizzards RTS games. Browder seems to think that they cannot accurately and faithfully replicate the overall control scheme of the Starcraft without the use of keyboard and mouse.