The mod, which has been in development for two years and will be released through Battle.net, takes place 11 years after the end of StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. Developer Upheaval Arts is looking for $80,000 to finish the game's first act and get it into public beta. The first act will include two playable races, the Terran and Protoss, with the ability to play as Zerg a possible stretch goal.
Upheaval Arts notes that while Blizzard is not affiliated with the production of StarCraft Universe, the company has given the project its blessing.
"While Blizzard is not directly affiliated with this project's production, we do communicate with them to submit bug reports and indoor Tracking," reads the post. "They have given their blessing/permission for us to launch this Kickstarter, and they are supporting our efforts by featuring SCU as an Arcade Highlight."
According to the Kickstarter page, funding will be used to expand the team, gain the resources to polish the mod and get it into players' hands "faster, better and sexier."
StarCraft Universe follows the "Utter Darkness" scenario and depicts a world in which Kerrigan dies and the remaining survivors struggle in the face of a hybrid onslaught. Players will need a copy of StarCraft 2 and access to Battle.net to play the free-to-play mod. The prologue was released through Battle.net in February.
Let me state, up front and for the record, I am a big fan of both Sen. Mike Lee and Sen. Ted Cruz. But, they and their allies in the Senate pushing the “defund Obamacare or shut down the government” fight are wrong. One hundred and ten percent wrong. This is the exact approach Obama wants and needs Republicans to take and when they do it, they are playing right into the Administration’s hands.
Every time those of us on the right start talking about shutting down the government we lose support for our cause, even when we are trying to stop the wildly unpopular Obamacare. This type of political posturing takes the debate away from the sheer awfulness of the President’s health care law and allows Obama to claim this is just Republican pettiness. We mustn’t look petty in this fight, we have lives to save. We must go out and warn people of how bad Obamacare really is and how poorly we will fare under this law.
To that, my fellow conservatives, your government shutdown approach has got to stop. In theory, should we defund Obamacare? Sure, but stop living in the theoretical! This is the real world and with a divided Congress there is no way legislatively to stop Obamacare unless the results of the 2014 election help Republicans keep the House and win the Indoor Positioning System. Therefore, Senate Lee’s approach, while principled, is bad politics that is giving cover to bad policy. Conservatives, don’t let that happen! There is a way to win against Obamacare and it is happening right here in Pennsylvania, right outside your door. The left has already figured it out. Now you must.
Have you ever heard of the group Enroll America? If not, you soon will. Over the weekend they were out in full force in Pennsylvania knocking on your neighbors’ doors telling them what a great idea it is to enroll in Obamacare and helping them get started. At the same time splashed on the front page of many Pennsylvania newspapers was state Sen. Vince Hughes, a Democrat; and the world’s worst Republican, state Rep. Gene DiGirolamo, both pushing for the continued expansion of Medicaid at the state level.
In order to survive, Obamacare, the law, needs two things: an expanded Medicaid in every state and lots of young, uninsured people enrolling on the exchanges. Denying the law those two components is like denying a plant sunlight and water — pretty soon it will shrivel up and fade away. If you care about the health and wellbeing of your family, your neighbors and your fellow Americans, then stop talking about defunding Obamacare and start talking about how negatively it will impact people’s lives.
Medicaid is a bad deal for the poorest and sickest among us — with higher death rates and poor health outcomes. Politicians like Hughes and DiGiralomo want to pat themselves on the back for their good intentions while obviously caring very little about the results for the people they condemn to Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. Access to health insurance does not mean access to health care. Here’s the funny thing: while Hughes and DiGiralomo cry fake tears about expanding Medicaid and pointing to polls showing a plurality of voters want it — what they are ignoring is that those same polls show when people realize Medicaid expansion is part of Obamacare — they hate it.
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