For a third time, Blizzard Entertainment is trying to make this famous game into a shooter. Will it succeed this time?
For the third time, there’s reportedly a team at Blizzard Entertainment working on a StarCraft shooter.
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Maybe the third time’s the charm.
That certainly appears to be the thinking of a small team at Blizzard Entertainment that is reportedly working on aStarCraftshooter. This news comes via Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, who spoke withIGN’s Podcast Unlockedabout his upcoming book,Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment.
As covered in his book, Schreier explained that after thecancelation of Blizzard’s survival gamefollowing Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard King, most of that team was laid off. A handful remained, and are “incubating” a StarCraft shooter under the leadership of Dan Hay, a veteran developer who previously worked on Ubisoft’sFar Cryfranchise.
Schreier notes in the conversation with IGN that it’s very early days on this project, and Blizzard has already canceled two attempted StarCraft shooters in the past, with the infamous StarCraft: Ghost and the lesser-known project Ares. Schreier’s book covers a wide range of topics and stories from throughout Blizzard’s storied history, of which this story is only a tiny portion.
The StarCraft universe is ripe with potential
Despite being a pillar of Blizzard Entertainment’s franchises, StarCraft hasn’t been explored as much as it could be.
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While StarCraft has fallen by the wayside in recent years as Blizzard Entertainment continued to work on games likeDiablo 4andOverwatch 2, the games did receive a bit of attention recently, with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer revealing during the Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2024 presentation thatStarCraft Remastered and StarCraft 2: Campaign Collection are slated to join PC Game Passon Nov. 5, 2024.
As a big fan of StarCraft, I’ll remain hopeful that this shooter comes to fruition. Given the myriad studios with first and third-person shooter expertise under the Xbox first-party group, there’s certainly plenty of talent that could help guide this game, if needed. Given its early stage of development, it’s likely that even hoping things go well, we won’t be hearing about this project for some time.
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Samuel Tolbert is a freelance writer covering gaming news, previews, reviews, interviews and different aspects of the gaming industry, specifically focusing on Xbox and PC gaming on Windows Central. You can find him on Twitter@SamuelTolbert.
