You can see how it's evolved in the StarCraft Remastered trailer below. As for the remake, this will include spruced up assets, resolution, audio, and story cinematics. This shows a lot of confidence on Blizzard's part that people will still pay for the upgrade when the original games are free. It's just free on both PC and Mac.Īlong with making the games free, Blizzard updated these perennial classics with a new 1.18 patch adding a few key features like the ability to toggle between fullscreen and windowed modes (Alt+Enter), an Observer mode, autosaves, improved UI layouts in, improved compatibility with Windows 7, 8.1 and 10, and more. The original StarCraft and its expansion Brood War have been made free by developer Blizzard Entertainment in preparation for the real-time strategy game's remaster due this summer.