Starcraft Ghost: A ‘Ghost in the Machine’ Indeed

You wouldn’t think anything Starcraft related would ever get cancelled but here’s the proof to shoot you down just when all your friends thought you were such the Gaming Historian. Though it went through many revisions and a few developers’ hands, Ghost eventually wound up as vaporware after five years in the public eye between 2002 and 2006. Surprisingly, Blizzard doesn’t count it as officially cancelled and so the promise of Starcraft Ghost continues to tug at our heartstrings for years to come!  Read the full OXM article from August 2003 in PDF at Scribd and brush up on your Ghost history at Wikipedia.

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