Starcraft Awards

• Walk of Game inductee. StarCraft received a star on the floor of the Metreon in San Francisco in early 2006.
• #7, Top 100 Games of All Time: 2005 Edition – IGN. This list included console games as well as PC games, and StarCraft placed #2 among PC games, behind Sid Meier’s Civilization II.
• #7, Top 100 Games of All Time: 2003 Edition – IGN.
• “The Standard by Which All Real-Time Strategy Games Are Judged”, GameSpot Presents: The Greatest Games of All Time
• #4, Top 10 Causes of Divorce in South Korea
• #9, Top 100 Games of All Time – Entertainment Weekly/G4.tv
• Using information gathered from their “own users.ign.com collection tracker,” IGN compiled a list of the Top 10 Most Popular Games. Starcraft and Brood War earned enough votes independently of one another to place first and sixth, respectively. The list is current as of January 17, and is based on a “combination of total occurrences and rating value of games” on their user’s collection lists.
• #18, The Ten Best Games Ever as voted by GameFAQs readers. It was the highest rated PC game on the list.
• Number-one selling PC Game of 1998 – PC Data
• Other awards, including numerous Game of the Year awards, are listed on Blizzard Entertainment’s official Awards Page.
• Greatest Game of All Time – GameSpot
• Number-one selling PC Game of 1998 – PC Data
• Game of the Year — Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS)
• Game of the Year — Computer Gaming World
• Game of the Year — European Consumer Trade Show Industry Award
• Game of the Year — PC Powerplay
• Game of the Year — Gamesmania
• Best Game of the Year — PCFan
• Taiwan Gamer’s Choice of Game of the Year. — Chinese Edition of PC Gamer or PC Gamer (China)
• Hall of Fame — Gamespy
• Strategy Game of the Year — Computer Games Strategy Plus
• Strategy Game of the Year — Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS)
• Real Time Strategy Game of The Year — PC Gamer
• Strategy Game of the Year — Gamespot
• Strategy Game of the Year — Games Domain
• Strategy Game of the Year — Gamesmania
• Best Real Time Strategy Game – Editor’s Choice — Gamezilla
• Best Real Time Strategy Game – Reader’s Choice — Gamezilla
• Best Real Time Strategy Game – Reader’s Choice — Gamecenter
• Best Real Time Strategy Game – Reader’s Choice — Duelist Magazine
• Best Real-Time Strategy Title — PCFan
• Mulitplayer Game of The Year – 1999 Milia Awards
• Multiplayer Game of the Year — Gamecenter
• Mulitplayer Game of The Year — The Gamers Net
• Best Multiplayer Title — PCFan
• Best New Multiplayer Online Game — 1999 Codie Awards
• Best use of Online Multiplayer Gaming (Editor Award) — HotGames.com
• Best Online Game – Reader’s Choice — Duelist Magazine
• Special Achievement Award – Best Story — Gamespot
• Special Achievement Award – Best Multiplayer Game — Gamespot
• Best use of Sound in a Computer Game (Reader Award) — HotGames.com
• #1 Reader’s Top 50 — PC Gamer
• Best Depth — PC Accelerator
• 5 out of 5 Stars Editor’s Choice– Computer Gaming World
• 5 out of 5 Gameworthy Rating — C/NET Gamecenter
• 9.4 out of 10 — Online Game Review
• 92% Editors Choice — PC Gamer
• 4.5 out of 5 star rating – Computer games Strategy Plus
• 5 out of 5 star rating – Mac 3D Total Action
• 9.1 out of 10 rating — Gamespot
• A+ — Gameweek
• 4 out of 4 star rating – USA Today

Brood War

• Add-on of the Year — Computer Gaming World
• Special Achievement Award: Best Expansion Pack — Gamespot
• 97% Rating — GameFan
• 9.1 out of 10 Spotscore — GameSpot
• 9 out of 10 Rating — Gamesmania
• 8 out of 10 Rating — PC Accelerator
• 5 out of 5 Rating — Warzone
• 4 out of 5 Rating — C/NET Gamecenter
• Best Mission Pack — PC Accelerator