• A Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson Commemorative Bundle that we created in his honor will be granted to every player on log-in, for free, forever, beginning on October 22, PDT.
  • “iNcontroL: Legend” portrait
  • “iNcontroL: Caster Invitational” portrait
  • “iNcontroLTV” spray
  • “iNcontroL” announcer
• Home Story Cup XX bundle has been added for purchase.
  • “HomeStory Cup XX” portrait
  • “HomeStory Cup XX: TaKe” portrait
  • “HomeStory Cup” spray
  • “HomeStory Cup XX” race banners for each race and random.
• WCS 2019 portraits have been added for each of the 16 finalists and a trophy portrait for all “War Chest: BlizzCon 2019” owners.
• “Classic” worker skins from BlizzCon 2018 Virtual Ticket are now available for purchase.
• Following Console skins are now available for purchase.
  • Terran: Machined
  • Terran: Special Forces
  • Terran: Mira's Marauders
  • Zerg: Evolved
  • Zerg: Simulant
  • Zerg: Primal
  • Protoss: Nerazim
  • Protoss: Forged
  • Protoss: Purifier
• Vorazun announcer has been...

When Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson passed away earlier this year, the StarCraft community lost someone incredibly special. Geoff was a competitor with unparalleled work ethic. He was ambitious and motivated, always looking for opportunities to learn and improve himself. But he was also the kind of one-in-a-million human being who genuinely cared about every single person he met—no matter who they were, or how unlikely it was that he would see them again.

Few people have had more of an impact on StarCraft than Geoff. As a player, he found success as early as 2007, when he won the national WCG Championship, catapulting him into a long and storied competitive career. He hosted podcasts like State of the Game and, more recently, The Pylon Show, which he co-founded. He shoutcasted major tournaments, demonstrating deep game knowledge, passion, and a preternatural ability to find the hilarity in any situation. In StarCraft, no matter where you looked, you found Geoff, and the community was be...

The StarCraft II War Chest returns with new skins and a whole new way to earn free goodies as we ramp up to the World Championship Series Finals at BlizzCon 2019. The War Chest is an exciting way to engage with StarCraft II and earn early access to in-game items for all three races at a remarkably low cost. As a bonus, a portion of your War Chest purchase goes toward supporting StarCraft II esports. Read on to learn more about what’s inside, and how you can get in on the action!

How It Works

The Terrans, Protoss, and Zerg each have their own War Chest available for purchase, and you can get access to all three with the Warchest Complete Bundle. You can earn more than 80 new items in total, including unit skins, decals, sprays, emojis, and portraits. You’ll also receive a co-op XP boost for the duration of the War Chest period with your purchase.

The progression path for the War Chest begins with a single unit skin, an exclusive portrait, a decal, and a loading screen ...

Hey everyone,

Each year, we take a step back to evaluate what improvements we could make to the game for a post-BlizzCon design patch. As we come closer and closer to stability with each passing year, for 2019, we’ll be focusing more on tweaks and refinements to existing units. Some themes in this year’s patch include:

• Introducing new upgrades designed to gate the full power of certain units and improve late-game usage for others.
• Strategically reducing ranges of key units and abilities to encourage greater interaction in late game.

Before we start, please bear in mind that this update contains many experimental changes that we’d like to try and test, and we’ll do our best at highlighting which ones we’re especially wary of.

Terran

Hellion/Hellbat

• Infernal Pre-Igniter research cost decreased from 150/150 to 100/100.

In the summer of 2011, the legendary SlayerS Terrans unleashed a revolutionary “Blue Flame Hellion” build upon hapless Zerg players around the world,...

WCS Global Finals - Opening Week Unveiled

For the 9th instalment of the WCS Global Finals, we have a special event planned for the first round of competition. From October 24-27, sixteen of the best StarCraft II players in the world will compete for glory in the birthplace of professional StarCraft: Seoul, South Korea.

Seoul of Competition

For the first time, anyone will be able to attend the Round of 16 of the WCS Global Finals at AfreecaTV’s FreecUP studio in Seoul, South Korea. Entry will be free, on a first-come, first-served basis. Radio headsets will be available for English speakers to hear live commentary.

Mecca of Esports

The production for the event will run by the same team that brings you the Global StarCraft II League (GSL) week after week - the most experienced StarCraft production crew in the world. We’ll be leveling up the broadcast with a full roster of English-speaking commentators and analysts as players vie for a spot in the Round of 8 – to be played at...

• Standardized the product purchase flow to use the Blizzard checkout process.

• Screenshots for Disco Bloodbath LE are now properly appearing in game and in the editor.
• Adjusted mineral locations and pathing to prevent mules from getting stuck on Jungle Depths LE.

It all comes down to this! After a year of near-total domination by the Zerg powerhouses Serral and Reynor, WCS Fall represents the final opportunity for StarCraft II players to claim a vaunted WCS trophy in 2019. But there’s even more on the line this time: with BlizzCon rapidly approaching, WCS Fall represents is the last chance for players to show their mettle and qualify for the WCS Global Finals with a big finish!

Beginning September 6, WCS Fall features a return to the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, with 80 players duking it out for the title of WCS Champion. Last year’s event was remembered for two story lines: Italian Zerg Reynor’s rise to the top, making the finals in his first-ever year of WCS competition at the age of 16; and the Finnish powerhouse Serral’s absolute domination of the StarCraft II pro scene, as he defeated Reynor in a tense finals match that gave him a complete sweep of the 2018 Circuit. 

While many are eyeing a rematch between these two players, the WCS po...