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Blizzard says designing a StarCraft open-world shooter presents specific challenges in scale and perspective — 'If you're 10 feet tall and you're wearing something that weighs 1,000 pounds, doors are a challenge'
Changing StarCraft from a real-time strategy to an open-world shooter came with perspective challenges, but also a simple challenge to do with doors.
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Blizzard says StarCraft will have the same 'gritty' atmosphere and be inspired by the 'interstellar western' of the original RTS — 'Our real world has asymmetry to it, and so I think leveraging that and putting that into this world was key for us'
StarCraft will adopt the same "gritty" atmosphere of the original real-time strategy (RTS) game, according to Blizzard Entertainment.
Microsoft Cloud accounts stolen in highly complex impersonation and passkey phishing campaign
Passkeys have all but eliminated password theft, so what now? Criminals have a solution.
Microsoft admits Windows 11 update breaks audio — but it's working on a fix
Windows 11 has another nasty bug, and Windows 10 users are saying they're glad they haven't upgraded.
StarCraft general manager says the shift to open-world shooter came about because 'Every time we drew a picture or every time we talked about' the game 'it was boots on the ground every time'
Dan Hay tells us how the developers discovered that a change from RTS to open-world shooter came about.
Microsoft is working with the American Federation of Teachers to work out how best to use AI in the classroom
American teaching federations establish “legally enforceable protections” with Microsoft to ensure the National AI Safety & Privacy Standard.
Bluetooth is absolutely awful on Windows 11, but Microsoft is finally pushing out updates to fix it
Windows 11's Bluetooth is full of bugs, and has been for years, but Microsoft is finally turning its attention towards more of its issues.
PlayStation hits the self-sabotage button again, cutting ties with Kojima Productions as Xbox takes over — and I think there's more than one reason why
PlayStation steps away from its collaboration with Kojima Productions as Xbox swoops in with a new partnership, and it's another bad move from Sony.
