{"id":1233254,"date":"2026-02-26T01:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vK2FLhkruKgveM2mcmGxr8"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:52:59","slug":"almost-a-year-after-launch-frost-giants-starcraft-wannabe-has-finally-added-the-feature-its-named-after-we-called-the-game-stormgate-yet-we-didnt-actually-have-any-stormgates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/almost-a-year-after-launch-frost-giants-starcraft-wannabe-has-finally-added-the-feature-its-named-after-we-called-the-game-stormgate-yet-we-didnt-actually-have-any-stormgates\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost a year after launch, Frost Giant’s StarCraft wannabe has finally added the feature it’s named after: ‘We called the game Stormgate, yet we didn’t actually have any stormgates’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cards on the table, I did not like Stormgate <\/a>when it launched. I did not like its vibes. I did not like its aesthetic. I did not like its story. I did not like how it felt beneath the fingers. I did not like the paltry number of (bad) singleplayer missions it offered before asking you to pony up cash. It felt like a Blizzard game with none of the polish, satisfaction or clarity of vision that makes the best Blizzard games what they are.<\/p>\n

What I do like though, is any developer that makes a concerted effort to improve its game, and Frost Giant certainly appears to be doing that. Back in April, the studio overhauled Stormgate’s wayward campaign, rewriting its entire narrative and mission structure<\/a>. Now, Frost Giant has just added one of the community’s most-requested features, the very thing the game was named after\u2014Stormgates.<\/p>\n

“We called the game Stormgate, yet we didn’t actually have any Stormgates,” Frost Giant sheepishly admits in a recent Steam blog<\/a>. “But that changes now, because we’re about to deploy a feature so obvious, so long-requested, so in-your-face fun that we had to name the whole game after it.”<\/p>\n

In the game, stormgates are essentially dimensional rifts generated by “massive arcane storms” that will appear “at key locations” on the game’s 1v1 maps. Players can dispatch units to crack these gates open and received randomised rewards. According to Frost Giant, these are not “your typical ‘+2 to Exo’ type bonuses” instead designed to radically reshape the battlefield. Examples include:<\/p>\n