The August Prime Gaming free lineup curiously involves StarCraft: Remastered

You can also pick up Recompile

A StarCraft: Remastered free download is front and center for this newest Prime Gaming update: set to arrive at the start of August.

As Prime Gaming continues to shuffle in new games alongside of other publisher-driven services, Amazon Prime subscibers have new games to claim. Several are relatively unknown, a few are higher-profile indies (comparatively), and the one Amazon chose to put front and center is StarCraft: Remastered. Not paying for a Blizzard game sounds pretty great right now to a lot of people, I bet.

If you need a refresher, here is what StarCraft: Remastered does differently:

• Full graphical upgrade of the original StarCraft and the StarCraft: Brood War expansion
• Widescreen UHD support for up to 4K resolution
• New matchmaking and leaderboards
• Player profiles that track individual statistics
• Cloud saving for campaign progress, hotkeys, and replays
• Higher fidelity music and sound
• Switch between Remastered and the original StarCraft

Beyond StarCraft: Remastered, you can find the full free lineup below.

August 2022 free games with Prime month:

• • StarCraft: Remastered

  • Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

  • Beasts of Maravilla Island

  • Recompile

  • ScourgeBringer

  • Family Mysteries: Poisonous Promises

August 2022  new in-game content with Prime: 

• • • Apex Legends

    • Call of Duty

    • Destiny 2

    • Fall Guys

    • Grand Theft Auto Online

    • League of Legends

    • World of Warcraft

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