At the PC Gaming Show in June, we aired segments of a documentary about Stormgate, a new RTS from former Blizzard developers who worked on the legendary Warcraft and StarCraft series. That documentary, filmed at Stormgate developer Frost Giant Studios in Orange County, is now available to watch in full. In it Frost Giant president Tim Campbell calls Stormgate "a love letter to the history of realtime strategy," and says it was developed with a conviction that the traditional Blizzard-style RTS still has plenty of room for innovation.
Stormgate's factions are maybe the best evidence of Frost Giant's drive to meld RTS tradition with original gameplay design. The human Vanguard are immediately recognizable as echoing Starcraft's Terrans, while the Infernal Host feel a bit like if the Zerg were also demons from Diablo. But with the Celestial Armada, Frost Giant hoped to build an RTS faction that breaks the Starcraft mold.
