Blizzard's Third Attempt to Develop StarCraft Shooting Game

TapTechNews September 27th news, Bloomberg's game industry reporter Jason Schreier said on the IGN Unlocked podcast program local time today that Blizzard has internally launched the development of the StarCraft series shooting game for the third time, while the previous two attempts have ended in failure.

Jason Schreier said that after Blizzard gave up the development of the 3A survival game, most of the employees of this project team were laid off, and the remaining personnel continued to incubate the StarCraft shooting game under the leadership of Dan Hay, the main creator of Ubisoft's Far Cry series who joined Blizzard at the end of 2022. At present, this new game is still in a very early stage.

Blizzard has previously developed the StarCraft series shooting game twice. One is StarCraft: Ghost announced in 2002, and the other is the more mysterious Ares project during 2017-2019, but none of them could be successfully released. It is said that the reason for the cancellation of both works is that Blizzard had more important tasks at hand at that time (TapTechNews note: for the former is World of Warcraft, and for the latter is Overwatch 2).

StarCraft is one of the most important IPs in Blizzard's hands. However, since the DLC of StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops in 2016 and the StarCraft: Remastered in 2017, there has been no new work released in this series for 7 years.