Blizzard honors legacy of iNcontroL with free in-game StarCraft items StarCraft 2 players will be getting a new commemorative bundle to honor commentator Geoff \u2018iNcontroL\u2019 Robinson who passed away earlier in 2019. The bundle, which includes Robinson\u2019s Announcer Pack, will be free for all players on October 22. Announcer packs are a neat StarCraft addition in which a character or personality takes the place of the standard game announcer. This can often times be played for laughs such as the announcer pack which featured Overwatch\u2019s D.va \u2013 who in the game\u2019s lore is an established StarCraft player. It\u2019s unclear what lines the company will use for iNcontroL, but given his expansive coverage, there shouldn\u2019t have been any shortage of clips to use for his announcer pack. The company praised Robinson in its commemorative bundle announcement writing: \u201cHere at Blizzard, there are a lot of Geoff \u2018iNcontroL\u2019 Robinson fans. (Understatement.) The StarCraft team wanted to do something permanent to commemorate him in-game.\u201d Beginning on October 22, Geoff \u201ciNcontroL\u201d Robinson\u2019s Announcer Pack, Portrait, and some additional items we\u2019re creating in his honor\u2014will be granted to every player on log-in, for free, forever. Learn more: https:\/\/t.co\/v8IjBUmvIm pic.twitter.com\/7912TQo6oi \u2014 StarCraft (@StarCraft) October 21, 2019 According to Blizzard, \u201cGeoff\u2019s Announcer Pack, Portrait, and some additional items we\u2019re creating in his honor\u2014will be granted to every player on log-in, for free, forever.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a small gesture, and it can\u2019t come close to capturing how much he meant to us, but we hope it will show some fraction of how we feel,\u201d they added. \u201cWe\u2019d like to believe that StarCraft was important to Geoff. But what we know, beyond any doubt, is that Geoff was important to StarCraft.\u201d Robinson was Starcraft 2 Protoss player and a highly popular figure in the competitive gaming community from both his playing days and further career in broadcasting. Prior to casting, Robinson was a Protoss player who notably finished 4th at MLG Pro Circuit Dallas in 2011. As a commentator, he worked major events such as season one of North American Star League and the 2012 DreamHack Open: Stockholm. iNcontroL passed away painlessly on July 21 due to a blood clot in his lungs. While he was only 33, his legacy will live on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Blizzard honors legacy of iNcontroL with free in-game StarCraft items StarCraft 2 players will be getting a new commemorative bundle to honor commentator Geoff \u2018iNcontroL\u2019 Robinson who passed away earlier in 2019. The bundle, which includes Robinson\u2019s Announcer Pack, will be free for all players on October 22. Announcer packs are a neat StarCraft addition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}