Blizzard is reportedly making a third try at growing a StarCraft shooter, with former Far Cry government producer Dan Hay, who joined Blizzard in 2022, main the cost.
Scorching on the heels of Microsoft’s announcement that StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft 2: Marketing campaign Assortment hit the Recreation Cross subscription service in November, it has emerged that Blizzard can be working on a StarCraft shooter.
Phrase comes from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier whereas chatting with IGN’s Podcast Unlocked, under, about his new e-book, PLAY NICE: The Rise, Fall, and Way forward for Blizzard Leisure. Hay’s StarCraft shooter is talked about in the e-book, and IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey requested Schreier if it’s more likely to really come out.
“If it’s not canceled!” Schreier replied. “That is Blizzard in spite of everything. Their historical past with StarCraft shooters will not be good.
“Sure, that’s a mission that so far as I do know is in growth, or at least as of the time that I wrote this e-book was in growth. They’re working on a StarCraft shooter, StarCraft will not be useless at Blizzard.
“The objective of the e-book isn’t to get a bunch of scoops about upcoming issues. That wasn’t the objective of this e-book at all, it was very a lot to inform a story and focus on stuff that had occurred. However this felt like such an attention-grabbing and helpful nugget to incorporate as a result of it actually simply exhibits you that Blizzard can’t give up StarCraft shooters.”
That’s a reference to Blizzard’s notorious try and launch a StarCraft shooter in the previous as a part of a bid to increase the StarCraft franchise past its real-time technique origins. StarCraft Ghost, introduced in 2002, was going to be a tactical-action console recreation wherein you performed as a lethal Ghost operative in the make use of of the Dominion, however it was canceled in 2006 after a collection of delays.
A second try and make a StarCraft shooter, codenamed Ares, was canceled in 2019 so Blizzard might focus on Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2. Ares was reportedly “like Battlefield in the StarCraft universe,” however, like Ghost, fell by the wayside.
Now, it’s a case of third time fortunate for Blizzard, with this new StarCraft shooter in growth. We don’t have any particulars at this time, however maybe Phil Spencer’s StarCraft t-shirt he wore throughout Microsoft’s Tokyo Recreation Present 2024 broadcast was greater than a easy reference to StarCraft hitting Recreation Cross.
As for Hay, he joined Ubisoft in 2011 to work on Far Cry 3, then grew to become government producer for the Far Cry model, delivery Far Cry Blood Dragon, Far Cry 4 , and Far Cry Primal. Hay was inventive director and government producer on Far Cry 5, and government director for Far Cry New Daybreak and Far Cry 6, earlier than becoming a member of Blizzard in 2022 as GM/VP.
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