Blizzard has introduced a brand new StarCraft venture and confirmed it’s concentrating on a 2030 launch date.
A trailer for the venture, which it confirmed is an open-world shooter, was revealed throughout BlizzCon 2026’s opening ceremony on Saturday.
The sport was launched by Ex-Far Cry boss Dan Hay, who was beforehand stated to be engaged on an in-development StarCraft shooter in Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier’s ebook Play Good: The Rise, Fall, and Way forward for Blizzard Leisure.
“[Our] group [was] constructed with one objective and one purpose, to return to a universe cast in interstellar warfare,” Hay stated at BlizzCon. “That is one thing new: an open-world shooter the place each step is earned. Not from above, however down on the bottom, within the mud, within the fireplace.”
Hay stated the sport would honor StarCraft’s previous, “however with a possibility to push past it.”
An outline for the sport reads: “The little kids of the Dominion answered the decision when mankind wanted them most. Their braveness held the road. Their sacrifice purchased us one other day. Now the decision involves you. Carry their energy ahead. Regardless of the associated fee.”
Blizzard has tried to create a StarCraft shooter twice prior to now, with initiatives codenamed Ghost and Ares, however each have been canceled.
Discussing the unannounced venture final yr, Jason Schreier stated: “Sure, that may be a venture that, so far as I do know, is in improvement, or at the very least as of the time I wrote this ebook it was in improvement. Which is [to say] sure, they’re engaged on a StarCraft shooter, StarCraft isn’t lifeless at Blizzard.”
He added: “This felt like such an fascinating and helpful nugget to incorporate [in my book], as a result of it actually exhibits that – what’s that Brokeback Mountain [line], ‘I can’t give up you?’ – Blizzard can not give up StarCraft shooters, they simply can’t say goodbye to them.”
