Blizzard is at the moment engaged on a shooter set within the StarCraft universe, it’s claimed.
The declare seems in Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier’s new e book, Play Good: The Rise, Fall and Way forward for Blizzard Leisure, which might be launched on October 8.
Schreier mentioned the declare within the newest episode of IGN’s Podcast Unlocked, the place IGN editor Ryan McCaffrey requested him about it.
McCaffrey famous that one part close to the top of the e book states {that a} group at Blizzard is engaged on the sport beneath Dan Hay, the previous head of the Far Cry collection at Ubisoft.
The passage, which refers to 2 beforehand StarCraft shooters, reads: “Many of the builders had been laid off, whereas just a few would stay with Hay to start incubating, of all issues, a brand new StarCraft shooter. Maybe after StarCraft Ghost and Ares, the third time can be the allure.”
After studying the passage on the podcast, McCaffrey requested Schreier: “Is {that a} factor that’s occurring there proper now that maybe, if it isn’t cancelled, if it continues, that we would hear about sooner or later?”
Schreier replied: “If it’s not cancelled. I imply, that’s a robust – that is Blizzard, in any case, their historical past with StarCraft shooters shouldn’t be good.
“Sure, that could be a mission that, so far as I do know, is in improvement, or not less than as of the time I wrote this e book it was in improvement. Which is [to say] sure, they’re engaged on a StarCraft shooter, StarCraft shouldn’t be useless at Blizzard.”
Schreier went on to say that he didn’t wrote the e book to drop quite a lot of unannounced information, however that the e book was designed to inform a narrative and that since a part of the e book mentions the 2 beforehand cancelled initiatives Ghost and Ares, the story that Blizzard was trying a StarCraft shooter for the third time was price mentioning.
“I think that this one will make quite a lot of headlines, I had the sensation it will,” he defined. “The aim of the e book isn’t to get a bunch of scoops about upcoming issues, that wasn’t the aim of this e book in any respect. It was very a lot to inform a narrative and give attention to stuff that had occurred.
“However this felt like such an attention-grabbing and helpful nugget to incorporate, as a result of it actually reveals that – what’s that Brokeback Mountain [line], ‘I can’t stop you?’ – Blizzard can’t stop StarCraft shooters, they simply can’t say goodbye to them.”
Dan Hay left Ubisoft in 2021 after a decade at its Montreal studio, the place he was credited for overseeing the collection throughout its most affluent interval.
It was then acknowledged in December 2022 that he was heading up a survival sport at Blizzard, however in January 2024 it was introduced that the sport, which had been codenamed Odyssey, had been cancelled.
