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Battle.net World Championship Series (BlizzCon) StarCraft II (SC2), World of Warcraft (WoW), Overwatch and Hearthstone world championship series run by Blizzard Entertainment: Worldwide: Call of Duty League: A Call of Duty franchised based league that is slated to begin in January 2020 replacing the Call of Duty World League.
Warcraft II: Battle Chest (1996), [30] Warcraft II: The Dark Saga (1997), [31] and Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition (1999) include the original game and Dark Portal [24] Included without expansions in the Blizzard's Game of the Year Collection (1998), [ 32 ] and with the Dark Portal expansion in Blizzard Anthology (2000) [ 33 ] and Warcraft III ...
Professional StarCraft II competition features professional gamers competing in Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy game StarCraft II.Professional play began following the game's initial release in 2010, as the game was the sequel to StarCraft, considered one of the first esports and the foundation of South Korea's interest and success in competitive gaming. [1]
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is an expansion pack to the military science fiction real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, and the second part of the StarCraft II trilogy developed by Blizzard Entertainment, with the final part being Legacy of the Void. [3] The game was released on March 12, 2013.
StarCraft remains one of the most popular online games in the world; [8] Blizzard Entertainment reported an 800 percent increase in Battle.net service usage after the game's release in 1998. [9] The original StarCraft and its expansion are particularly popular in South Korea, where a successful eSports scene has been established. [10]
The 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS) is part of the Battle.net World Championship Series, a series of video game tournaments held by Blizzard Entertainment, [1] the creators of the video game StarCraft II (SC2). Tournaments were held in more than 28 countries to find top StarCraft II competitors. The top-ranked players from ...
On May 5, 2010, it was revealed that StarCraft II and Battle.net 2.0 would be integrated with social networking site Facebook, "linking the world's premier online gaming platform with the world's most popular social platform"—a move that allowed gamers to search among their Facebook friends for StarCraft II opponents.
Korea's WCS Premier League returned to Global StarCraft II League (GSL) branding, with all three seasons fully run by GOMTV, marking the end of the Ongamenet Starleague (OSL). All WCS leagues featured three seasons of regular play, while the cross-regional Season Finals from 2013 did not return. [1]