I’d love to get off Starcraft’s ass for a day, but the World Cyber Games kinda disowned her.

Official Games ｜WCG 2010

PC

* Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne (Blizzard, RTS)
* Counter-Strike (Valve, FPS)
* TrackMania Nations Forever (Ubisoft, Racing)
* Carom 3D (NeoAct, Sports)

Xbox 360

* Guitar Hero 5 (Activision, Music)
* Tekken 6 (Namco Bandai Games, Fighting)
* Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft Game Studios, Racing)

WCG 2010 Promotional Game Title:

PC

* Lost Saga (IO Entertainment, Action)

One of two possible scenarios, maybe a combination:

- Screamed it for years: Warcraft III is international and Starcraft is not.  When I call it the “Korean Gaming Machine”, I don’t kid. South Korean dominance of Starcraft is best compared to American dominance of basketball leading into the early nineties.  And where the World Cyber games hosts the most important Warcraft III tournament of the year, the biggest intrigue on the Starcraft side was seeing how the Korean representatives would tank games in order to sweep the medal round.

- Starcraft II is also absent.  The powers that be could be waiting to see if the sequel is competition-ready.  Of course, Blizzard could also have thrown money at the Games to keep KeSPA’s meal ticket off the most visible gaming tournament in the Western Hemisphere.  Would that surprise anyone?  The tournament is paid and bought by Samsung.  Have you looked at their lineup?  Carom3D is a billards game that makes two straight hours of Pac-Man look like Daigo’s parry fetish.  The tournament also touts “Why is this here?” titles as “Promotional Games”.  Also known as “Samsung wants you to buy their crap.”

Either way, this is far from the end of this battle.

Credit goes to Starshaped for the link.