Blizzard will possible reveal a StarCraft first-person shooter, understood to be in improvement, at BlizzCon later this yr.
That’s in line with a brand new report from Home windows Central, which claims that StarCtraft is more likely to headline the September occasion, alongside new expansions for Diablo IV and World of Warcraft.
The existence of an in-development StarCraft shooter was first reported final yr, in Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier’s e-book Play Good: The Rise, Fall, and Way forward for Blizzard Leisure.
In response to the e-book, the challenge is being led by Ex-Far Cry boss Dan Hay, who left Ubisoft in 2021 after a decade at its Montreal studio, the place he was credited for overseeing the Far Cry sequence throughout its most affluent interval.
Then, later final yr, Blizzard started promoting job roles for an “upcoming open-world shooter recreation,” which might be associated to the StarCraft challenge.
If true, it might mark not less than the third time that Blizzard has tried to create a StarCraft shooter, following the cancelled initiatives StarCraft Ghost and Ares.
Discussing the unannounced challenge final yr, Jason Schreier mentioned: “Sure, that could be a challenge 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 just isn’t lifeless at Blizzard.”
He added: “This felt like such an attention-grabbing and helpful nugget to incorporate [in my book], as a result of it actually reveals that – what’s that Brokeback Mountain [line], ‘I can’t stop you?’ – Blizzard can not stop StarCraft shooters, they simply can’t say goodbye to them.”
