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General
Links
These are major, all purpose sites with news, strategies, files and a host
of other resources all rolled into one. This is just a sampling; there's
squillions of StarCraft sites out there, ranging from small personal pages
by kids through to polished and professional mega-sites. StarCraft sites
must have the most overly animated link buttons of any game! |
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AusStarCraft.com:
Fed up with the fairly dismal service Battle.Net was providing for we
Antipodeans, Aus-1 was born. This is an Australian
online gaming network that provides for several big games. |
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Battle.Net,
Blizzard's internet gaming service homepage, which features all the latest
official maps, info and bits you could ever want. |
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StarCraft
Compendium: Blizzard's official information source on the game and
an excellent introduction to all the game's finer points. There's a lot
of essential detail here that all StarCraft beginners should look at. |
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StarCraft's
official homepage at Blizzard
Entertainment, developer and publisher. |
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Blizz
Planet: Recently established in Feb. 2003, this is a new site planning
to act as an online directory to all web sites dedicated to Blizzard games.
Its StarCraft
section is a little rudimentary at this point, favouring more recent
Blizzard games such as WarCraft III and World
of WarCraft. |
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Blizzard
Nexus, The
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Moderately
sized fan site for Blizzard's
later titles. Most emphasis is on WarCraft III,
with the others looking a little scanty. Some forums, replays and other
gamer related material such as comics and fan fiction. There are sections
on StarCraft, Diablo
II and WarCraft II. Site lost! |
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BroodWar.de:
A German speaking mega- StarCraft site. This
seems to be an epicentre for all things Deutsche and StarCraftian, including
forums, files, campaigns, maps and others, and has close ties to Brutkrieg.de,
a large Germanic StarCraft modding and TC site. |
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BW4Ever:
An international online tournament site for StarCraft:
BroodWar with a strong European flavour. |
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Creep
Colony's
Skilful StarCraft |
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Probably one of your first stops for anything vaguely related to a StarCraft
download outside of official circles or the big StarCraft mega-sites.
Maps, mods, (chat) bots for Battle.Net, anti-hacks, replays, a large selection
of user submitted strategies and game patches. Not too shabby. |
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Fighter
Replays is
an active StarCraft replay site, hosting many recorded multiplayer StarCraft
games for download and playback. Replays are always a good source of
learning a game, or simply kicking back and watching the experts at work.
Each replay can be rated and commented, and each has its own APM
(Actions Per Minute) graph, which measures just how fast each player
is developing carpal tunnel syndrome during a match. Fighter Replays has
ambitions
of branching into other games. |
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StarCraft
Community: Just that. An MSNetwork site where
like minded commune members can swap photos (holiday snaps, cool clip art,
some risqué video game box covers, and saucy StarCraft stuff), meet,
chat (no cussin' now), or even get down and play StarCraft for a really
swell time. You even get your own M$ passport - wow! There's some downloads
and a Playable Maps section accessible to the public (presumably Unplayable
Maps are reserved for members only) Members can earn Merits (or Vespene
Gas and Mineral points - which, as we all know, are tradable at Thomas Cook)
for "honestly" posting images themselves or generally doing good on the
site. Oh dear. However, for all the branding,
ear-tagging and voluntary radio collaring for the benefits of marketers,
these eager beavers have nevertheless cobbled together a rather interesting
idea for a fourth race - the Onerians.
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StarCraft
Index: An off the cuff, fan based and built StarCraft site containing
general purpose info, StarEdit info, Battle.net culture and slang, strategies
and tactics, a few maps and other downloadables. This is your standard,
contemporary StarCraft fan site these days. |
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StarCraft
Infoceptor: Huge site devoted to Blizzard Games; probably the biggest
StarCraft site there is and classic example of the big, glossy, almost
too-pro super site. Lots of gossip, downloads, strategies, info, etc.
etc. Infoceptor has an excellent display of downloadable SC custom mods
and conversions. |
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StarCraft
Legacy: part of the Legacy network (concentrates on Blizzard games
and RPG's) and another original StarCraft super site. Another slickly
produced, prolific site with forums, polls and just about everything else
you could care to name on all things StarCraftian or Blizzardian. Apparently
SC Legacy and SC.Org have an old history of rivalry. |
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StarCraft
Millennium: one of the oldest original StarCraft sites around. A medium
sized super sIte, that used to sport a beautiful layout until for no readily
apparent reason it was redesigned to look exceptionally boring and dull,
as though spat out by some piece of by-the-numbers web software. This
was once one of the premier sites for news, maps, strategies, etc., etc.,
until it quietly fizzled out and was resurrected recently. |
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StarCraft.Org
is one of the original mega-sites, but still one of the best ones out
there. Its got everything. Mods, campaigns, strategies, features, forums,
news and more. |
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StarCraft
Source: Modest site with some maps, cheat codes, the StarCraft demo,
and some mods. Site gone...sort of. |
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Supreme
StarCraft: Lively news and resource site, complete with its own StarCraft
Java game, a giant page detailing the history of the game's design, downloadable
maps, game recordings, utilities, forums, strategies, articles and editorials. |
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Zergling Underground |
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A Geocities fan page
(mind those ads) that specialises in anti-hacks
for Battle.Net. This is a dual language site, that uses English with Korean
translations. |
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bnetd
(dead link) |
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Born
from the frustrations with Battle.Net's desultory performance at the
time (and the fact that you had no alternative online but to go through
it)
the bnetd server was born. This was a homegrown
alternative to Battle.Net where things were small enough for people
to
have fun and at the same time still be responsive: Admins could and did
deal with an expel any would-be hackers, cheats and bored trolls. Now
all the link does is redirect you to Blizzard's Battle.net. More
info |
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GamePr0c.com |
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In 2002, this
was a freshly established amalgamation of several modding and StarCraft
editing sites. GamePr0c covered a bit of StarCraft
and a lot of its successor, WarCraft
III. However, at the time this fan site sounded more like an official
Blizzard cheerleader's site, and most of its news items at the time felt
like breathless repeats of official announcements. After much time under
reconstruction, GameProc has emerged as a personal gaming site (just like
RTSC) with most of its efforts going towards Guild
Wars. |
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StarCraft3D.net:
devoted once to building a 3D version of StarCraft, this project was killed
by Blizzard
for copyright reasons. You can pick through the unfinished detritus of their
downloads section. Or maybe not. |
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StarCraft:
Xel'Naga Vengeance |
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A Russian total conversion that was originally going to convert C&C
Generals to StarCraft - now shut down by Blizzard's Anti-Piracy
team.. |
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Warcraft
3 TC |
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Third version
of the StarCraft to Warcraft III conversion by
Infoceptor. Terrans
become Humans, Protoss become Orcs and Zerg become Demons. This monster
conversion planned to add entirely new spells, buildings and units, and
replace sounds, graphics and effects. Probably the biggest StarCraft
conversion there was. It didn't like Win2k unfortunately, and in any case,
Blizzard shut it down over copyright issues. |
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