subject: Record game development budget: $100 million for StarCraft II [print this page] With recent research from the NPD Group finding game software sales fell by 6 percent compared to last year, the idea of a game costing more than $100 million to develop seems risky; however, with the success of Activision's Warcraft franchise, the cost of the new StarCraft game could be worth every penny.
Record game development budget: $100 million for StarCraft II