CVG: Unless you've been living in the proverbial cave - or under rock, or under a rock in a proverbial cave - you'll realise that today is d-day for StarCraft II, the long awaited successor to the most successful RTS game of all time.
Developer Blizzard is one of the greatest PC developers in the world - with a slew of stellar hits that read like a Who's Who of PC gaming over the past decade, including StarCraft, Diablo and, of course, all-conquering online juggernaut World of Warcraft.
Yet for such a renowned developer of PC games, Blizzard are apparently platform agnostic when they begin the process of making a new title. At least that's what Michael Ryder, Vice President and Executive Managing Director of International Operations told us when we spoke this morning.
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...but other than that, has blizzard ever made even one console game?
Rather than "agnostic," I think the word is "apathetic."
"facepalm" theyve ported diablo, warcraft and starcraft to console. Theyve made console games in the past. They arent unlike most devs, even valve makes console versions of their games (albeit the true 100% experience is exclusive to pc). Console makers offer big bucks for games they want, and they will usually get some sort of version of them, everything from doom to dragon age has been shamelessly massacred on console.
I used to be platform-jewish, but lately I've become really jaded and I went platform-atheist.
I'd like to see them branch out and make SC2 for the PS3 or 360.