Fixed IME support and other text artifacts in menus.

Fixed problems with LAN game discovery.

Fixed palette issues to correct rainbow water, 80s Kerrigan face in the loading screen, and other graphic glitches.

Mac Beta support now available for 10.11 and up.

Improved installation and patching performance.

Improved compatibility with Windows 7, 8.1, and 10.

Improved behavior of available lobbies within the ‘Join Game’ section.

Improved gameplay responsiveness during multiplayer by increasing turn rate to match LAN speeds over.

Added an option to display the game timer.

Added opponent information when joining a game lobby.

Added options to display actions per minute.

Added Popular Maps to streamline finding games or game types.

Added cursor clamping in-game while windowed unclamped in menus.

Added windowed fullscreen or windowed mode use Alt+Enter to switch between.

You can download StarCraft and Brood War for PC right here or for Mac right here.

Instead now, patch 1.18 has come out, the first in 8 years which makes the entire game free. Last year, Blizzard released a sneaky patch via named 1.17 which would have been the first released patch since 2009, but it never went live, nor public. The new patch has made Starcraft and Brood War now completely free complete with some compatibility fixes for Windows 8, 10, and full screen modes.

Blizzard has hit us with a surprise Patch, Patch 1.18.

Starcraft and brood war fror free