StarCraft closes 1998 as the year’s top-selling PC game

It’s official. All the sales have been tallied, and Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft earned the top spot for 1998 as the year’s biggest selling PC game, according to PC Data figures released this week. Additionally, based on domestic and international retail data, the game finished the year with more than 1.5 million copies sold worldwide, becoming Blizzard’s third back-to-back game to reach the sales milestone.

That is the latest from the January wire. Small item, sure, but the PC gaming world moves through small items like this, one download, one update, and one promise at a time.