A shooter set in the StarCraft universe is reportedly in the works at Blizzard, according to the book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall and Future of Blizzard Entertainment from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.
The book is due to be public on October 8, but the journalist discussed the StarCraft story during IGN’s Podcast Unocked with Ryan McCaffrey. The host mentioned a section at the end of the book that mentions the StarCraft title is in the works with ex-Far Cry series head Dan Hay.
The passage in question reads as follows:
Most of the developers were laid off, while a few would remain with Hay to begin incubating, of all things, a new StarCraft shooter. Perhaps after StarCraft Ghost and Ares, the third time would be the charm.
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When asked by McCaffrey if this project was still going on and if we might hear about it soon, Schreier replied:
If it’s not cancelled. I mean, that’s a strong – this is Blizzard, after all, their history with StarCraft shooters is not good. Yes, that is a project that, as far as I know, is in development, or at least as of the time I wrote this book it was in development. Which is [to say] yes, they are working on a StarCraft shooter, StarCraft is not dead at Blizzard.
I suspect that this one will make a lot of headlines, I had the feeling it would. The goal of the book isn’t to get a bunch of scoops about upcoming things, that wasn’t the purpose of this book at all. It was very much to tell a story and focus on stuff that had happened.
StarCraft was created by Chris Metzen and James Phoney, and takes place during the beginning of the 26th century during a galactic-wide struggle among four races — Terrans, Zerg, Protoss, and Xel’Naga. The seres launched in March 1998, and the original game was remastered in 2017.
[Source – IGN Podcast via VGC]