StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War Are Now Free to Everyone

StarCraft, the military science fiction strategy published in 1998, now has a patch after eight years and thanks to Blizzard, it is now free to play for everyone.

With this new patch, StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War will support windowed fullscreen and windowed mode, UTF-8, Observer mode, autosaving for replays, a new OpenGL backend, and improved compatibility with Windows 7, 8.1, and 10. The profile section is currently unavailable, but it’s ok guys, really.

You can go ahead and download StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War right now. For PC version you can visit here and for Mac version visit here.

You can read the full notes below:

General

• Added windowed fullscreen or windowed mode; use Alt+Enter to switch between.
• Added UTF-8 support.
• Added cursor clamping in-game while windowed; unclamped in menus.
• Added Popular Maps to streamline finding games or game types.
• Added options to display actions per minute.
• Added Observer mode.
• Added opponent information when joining a game lobby.
• Added autosaving for replays.
• Added an option to display the game timer.
• Added UPnP support.
• Updated to a new OpenGL backend.
• Improved gameplay responsiveness during multiplayer by increasing turn rate to match LAN speeds over Battle.net.
• Improved UI layout in Battle.net sections.
• Improved behavior of available lobbies within the ‘Join Game’ section.
• Improved compatibility with Windows 7, 8.1, and 10.
• Improved anticheat capabilities.
• Improved installation and patching performance.
• Mac Beta support now available for 10.11 and up.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed palette issues to correct rainbow water, 80s Kerrigan face in the loading screen, and other graphic glitches.
• Fixed problems with LAN game discovery.
• Fixed IME support and other text artifacts in Battle.net menus.
• LAN and Legacy Battle.net fixes.

Known Issues

• The profile section is currently unavailable.

Enjoy!