StarCraft has Hydralisks, Mutalisks, Dragoons and Stalkers. The reveal sold us a Marine with an assault rifle. It's a cinematic, not the finished game. But why lead with the most familiar part of an alien universe?

15 years ago, a StarCraft gaming tournament offered $500 for first place prize, $250 for second, $150 for third, and $100 for fourth. Players finishing fifth through eighth were offered 25 bitcoin each. The organizer valued bitcoin at approximately one dollar, making each bitcoin prize worth about $25. Players were told to research the currency themselves: “YOU have to research them, do not ask me.” As of today, each bitcoin prize would be worth $2,000,000 at current market prices.

Tonight I lost 4 of 5 games of Starcraft II 3v3. My allies thought I sucked and told me so. And I didn’t tell them to fuck off and die, rage quit, or backstab them. This must be what maturing feels like.

There was a time when Age of Empires, StarCraft, UO, EverQuest, and Counter-Strike were so popular that many high school students skipped class to stay in internet cafes. My high school's solution was to build an internet cafe at school, managed by students, so teachers could always know where to find their students. 😆