Phil Spencer's Tokyo Game Show update.
Beloved real-time strategy classics starship and Starcraft II will soon be available in Microsoft's Game Pass subscription for PC, the company announced during the Tokyo Game Show.
It's now free to play both. starship and Starcraft IIPC multiplayer modes. However, this move to Game Pass will make the equally excellent single-player campaigns available to anyone with a subscription. Game Pass will also offer all expansions for both games.
The subscription will provide access to StarCraft remastereda revamped version of the original 1998 game that came out in 2017, as well as the StarCraft II Campaign Collectionwhich includes over 70 single player missions Starcraft II's wings of freedom, Heart of the swarm, Void Legacyand Nova Covert Ops.
The announcement was the only new information in a short video from Xbox boss Phil Spencer. He appeared in the video wearing a starship t-shirt, which could have received starship Fans are hopeful that the franchise will get a new game for the first time in over a decade.
That didn't happen, of course, but adding the games to Game Pass will likely expose them to many new players who may have been too young to play the influential strategy titles when they debuted in 1998 and 2010.
These aren't the first Blizzard games to be added to Game Pass since Microsoft acquired Activision-Blizzard. First came Diablo IVso supervision 2—The latter was already free when Game Pass arrived, but Microsoft included it in the Game Pass distribution platform and offered cosmetics and gifts to Game Pass subscribers.
He starship The games will launch for PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate subscribers on November 5.