Blizzard is at present engaged on a shooter set within the StarCraft universe, it’s claimed.
The declare seems in Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier’s new guide, Play Good: The Rise, Fall and Way forward for Blizzard Leisure, which can 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 tip of the guide states {that a} crew at Blizzard is engaged on the sport below Dan Hay, the previous head of the Far Cry sequence at Ubisoft.
The passage, which refers to 2 beforehand StarCraft shooters, reads: “A lot of the builders have been laid off, whereas a couple of would stay with Hay to start incubating, of all issues, a brand new StarCraft shooter. Maybe after StarCraft Ghost and Ares, the third time could be the appeal.”
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 powerful – that is Blizzard, in spite of everything, their historical past with StarCraft shooters is just not good.
“Sure, that may be a venture that, so far as I do know, is in growth, or not less than as of the time I wrote this guide it was in growth. Which is [to say] sure, they’re engaged on a StarCraft shooter, StarCraft is just not useless at Blizzard.”
Schreier went on to say that he didn’t wrote the guide to drop numerous unannounced information, however that the guide was designed to inform a narrative and that since a part of the guide mentions the 2 beforehand cancelled initiatives Ghost and Ares, the story that Blizzard was making an attempt a StarCraft shooter for the third time was value mentioning.
“I think that this one will make numerous headlines, I had the sensation it will,” he defined. “The objective of the guide isn’t to get a bunch of scoops about upcoming issues, that wasn’t the aim of this guide in any respect. It was very a lot to inform a narrative and concentrate on 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 give up you?’ – Blizzard can’t give up StarCraft shooters, they only 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 sequence throughout its most affluent interval.
It was then acknowledged in December 2022 that he was heading up a survival recreation at Blizzard, however in January 2024 it was introduced that the sport, which had been codenamed Odyssey, had been cancelled.
