Battle.net remains Largest Online Game Service

Battle.net remains Largest Online Game Service is another February 1999 item worth filing away, because the small notices often tell you where the industry is heading next.

The names attached here include Blizzard Entertainment's, SiNce, StarCraft, Brood War, and SiNce StarCraft. The platform angle centers on PC and Battle.net. The hook is multiplayer and online. The hard numbers include 2.1, 50 percent, 4.7, 50,000 players, and 800 percent.

Good. More games, more patches, more demos. The stack keeps growing, and nobody around here is pretending that is a problem.