2021, The Strong National Museum of Play inducted StarCraft to its World Video Game Hall of Fame. During the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine Ukrainian presidential spokesman and Chief of Staff Oleksiy Arestovych described reports of a potential Russian offensive as a "zerg rush" of 10,000 volunteers (in reference to Zerg swarm species tactics from the game), and proceeded to explain the meaning of the term. Merchandise The storyline of StarCraft has been adapted into several novels. The first novel, Uprising, which was written by Blizzard employee Micky Neilson and published in December 2000, acts as a prequel to the events of StarCraft. Other novels—Liberty's Crusade by Jeff Grubb and Aaron Rosenberg's Queen of Blades—retell the story of the game from different perspectives. At BlizzCon 2007, StarCraft creator Chris Metzen stated that he hoped to novelize the entirety of StarCraft and its expansion Brood War into a definitive text-based story. Later novels, such as Gabriel Mesta's Shadow of the Xel'Naga and Christie Golden's The Dark Templar Saga, further expand the storyline, creating the setting for StarCraft II. A number of action figures and collectable statues based upon the characters and units in StarCraft have been produced by ToyCom. A number of model kits, made by Academy Hobby Model Kits, were also produced, displaying 1/30 scale versions of the marine and the hydralisk. In addition, Blizzard Entertainment teamed up with Fantasy Flight Games to create a board game with detailed sculptures of game characters. Blizzard Entertainment also licensed Wizards of the Coast to produce an Alternity based game entitled StarCraft Adventures. See also Barcraft StarCraft StarCraft: Brood War StarCraft: Remastered StarCraft II StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void StarCraft in esports References External links The StarCraft Compendium on Battle.net StarCraft Demo in the old Blizzard FTP 1998 video games Cooperative video games Esports games Freeware games Interactive Achievement Award winners Classic Mac OS games Multiplayer and single-player video games Multiplayer null modem games Nintendo 64 games Origins Award winners MacOS games Split-screen multiplayer games StarCraft games Video games about telepathy Video games developed in the United States Video games with expansion packs Video games with isometric graphics Video games written by Chris Metzen Windows games World Video Game Hall of Fame