Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal

Not to be confused with World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal.

Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal
Developer(s)Blizzard Entertainment
Cyberlore Studios
Publisher(s)Blizzard Entertainment
Designer(s)
  • Jim DuBois
  • Jesse King
  • Joseph Minton
  • Rob Caswell
Programmer(s)Ken Grey
Artist(s)Peter Lawson
Seth Spaulding
SeriesWarcraft
Platform(s)Macintosh, MS-DOS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Microsoft Windows
ReleaseWindows, Mac OS
PlayStation, Saturn
Genre(s)Real-time strategy
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal is an expansion pack for the real-time strategy video game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. It was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and Cyberlore Studios,[3] and published by Blizzard in North America and Europe in 1996. It requires the full version of the original game to run and adds new story campaigns and multiplayer maps. The expansion was later released alongside Tides of Darkness for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1997 as Warcraft II: The Dark Saga, and was included in the Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition for Windows PC and Macintosh in 1999.

  1. ^ "Blizzard Entertainment Releases Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal" (Press release). Irvine, California: Blizzard Entertainment. May 16, 1996. Archived from the original on October 30, 1996.
  2. ^ "Electronic Arts - News Room, Electronic Arts to Ship Warcraft II: The Dark Saga for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn". 1998-02-07. Archived from the original on February 7, 1998. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  3. ^ "How a Diablo expansion led to behind the scenes trouble". Polygon. 2018-06-29.