StarCraft Online is capturing China

16th February 2008

The largest Asian gaming operator Netease imports western multiplayer games in China and consolidates them at this developing market. According to unofficial data of Caijing Magazine, the first project that this company is going to bring into densely populated country is called StarCraft Online.
Earlier there was information that Blizzard was working on a new MMOG, but an official title was never named. Today, the company has two serious franchises: StarCraft and Diablo. StarCraft 2 will be released in 2008, so the most likely candidate for MMOG has remained (until recently) Diablo.
However, Blizzard is still silent…

Project Origin: some new details