Blizzard's 17 Cancelled game projects exposed by Jason Schreier

TapTechNews October 1st news, Bloomberg game journalist Jason Schreier exposed 17 cancelled Blizzard game projects in today's MinnMax podcast, and these 17 are just the tip of the iceberg. TapTechNews summarizes as follows:

Bloodlines - a space vampire game

Star Wars licensed game (eventually led to StarCraft)

Shattered Nations

GameBoy version of Diablo

Starblo - a science fiction version of Diablo

Nomad - a post-apocalyptic turn-based game developed before World of Warcraft

Avalon - a World of Warcraft IP work in the style of Minecraft developed between 2013 and 2015

Hades - the original version of Diablo 4, with a third-person perspective, Arkham combat style, and grayish tone, and it is permadeath (no resurrection setting)

Orbit - a World of Warcraft version of PokémonGO

Odyssey - a survival game

Orion - an RPG mobile game based on asynchronous turn-based gameplay

4X StarCraft game

Call of Duty RTS game

A World of Warcraft IP work in the style of Helldivers

Andromeda - a World of Warcraft IP work in the style of God of War

A first-person shooter game of StarCraft in the style of Battlefield

A World of Warcraft mobile game in cooperation with NetEase

Jason Schreier is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Reset (PressReset) and Blood, Sweat, and Pixels. His Blizzard history book, PLAYNICE: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, is scheduled to be published this October, which tells the ups and downs of Blizzard Entertainment over more than 30 years since its founding, and also includes many of Blizzard's secrets, which can be seen as the Social Network of the game industry.

He also revealed in the SpawnWave podcast program a few days ago that the next work of the Ranger Studio will be a multiplayer online game of Horizon instead of the third single-player game of this series.