Blizzard Reportedly Working on a StarCraft Shooter - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 December 2024 / 2,892 Views
Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier in his new book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, reports the gaming company is working on a shooter set in the StarCraft universe.
Schreier on IGN’s Podcast Unlocked was asked about this game by IGN editor Ryan McCaffrey. He read a passage in the book that a team at Blizzard is working on the game under the former head of the Far Cry series Dan Hay.
"Most of the developers were laid off, while a few would remain with Hay to begin incubating, of all things, a new StarCraft shooter," reads the passage. "Perhaps after StarCraft Ghost and Ares, the third time would be the charm."
McCaffrey asked Schreier, "Is that a thing that’s going on there right now that perhaps, if it isn’t cancelled, if it continues, that we might hear about at some point?"
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."
He added, "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.
"But this felt like such an interesting and useful nugget to include, because it really shows that – what’s that Brokeback Mountain [line], ‘I can’t quit you?’ – Blizzard cannot quit StarCraft shooters, they just can’t say goodbye to them."
Thanks, VideoGamesChronicle.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Sorry but no. This is just wrong. Make another rts game instead.
As much as I would love that, Blizzard’s RTS developers have long left the company at this point.
Zero interest. Just make a world class RTS with the IP please.
Sounds like its inspired by Space Marine 2.
StarCraft started as a Warhammer 40K project, but when Games Workshop turned down the project, Blizzard decided to turn it into their own IP, which became StarCraft. So while there’s absolutely similarities between the 2, this will actually be the 3rd attempt in the past 20 years Blizzard will have tried to turn StarCraft into a shooter.
Benchmark Microsoft's internal studios! Fallout, Doom, COD, Wolfenstein... add updated mechanics and graphics, which, when combined with a rich story from the Starcraft universe, will have immense potential to become a success.
This is a multiplatform game that will make a lot of money. Just let the guys work and support them so that they can produce a masterpiece!
Space Marines are certainly hot right now. The question is will they still be when this releases?
If a shooter worked for Command & Conquer, it can surely work for Starcraft.
I loved playing Command and Conquer Renegade, in fact, I still have all the games, as well as the saves recorded on DVDs.
I recently got em all too in the complete collection on Steam :)
So instead of Starcraft Ghost that was cancelled and the extent that was going for to stretch Starcraft outside the RTS genre 20+ years ago were getting a modern shooter idea with the IP? I'm for that why not. The universe probably has a lot it can do and like Warhammer (not as broad I assume I don't know Starcraft really just it had 2 games and an N64 release that's it) or others many factions, many stories to tell, many cool assets already of weapons and cool locations. Why not.
Would it be partial RTS though? Like The Outfit sort of was or other games that do a mix like strategy and shooter like Valkyria Chronicles or something hmm?
Yes, a fps is what people want from blizzard
I’d be interested in exploring the story in RPG form, online or otherwise - I think a Witcher 3/Xenoblade Chrobicles X style RPG might be interesting.
FPS or RTS would be fine too, but neither would be for me.
I can image a similar game to those 4 player online shooters killing swarms of enemies. Might actually work fighting 100s of Zergs. Looking forward to whatever it is
Hell, it's about time
A good shooter is absolutely desperately needed. Look at all the Melee action games released, that’s because there’s so few companies that know how to make good FPS’s. It’s actually an industry embarrassment. Which is also bad news for publishers because there’s you cannot do multiplayer with Melee games cuz they cannot provide long lasting engagement with multiplayer like you can with FPS’s.
Didn't one release like 3 weeks ago?
Just goes to show how dead the StarCraft franchise is right now.
Sad but true
I'd like another RTS, but I feel like they went with a shooter idea based on the original Ghosts concept from back in the day, and that it would fit more in line with consoles, than another RTS.
They could turn it into a bit of a horror with a few lone marines vs a planet full of Zerg and the Tal'darim.
Or like that scene where Kerrigan was abandoned by Hyperion in that flashback she had during Heart of the Swarm.
I know during SC I/BW, there were some planets that were outright infested by the Zerg, so some last stand moments would absolutely be possible to cover in a shooter.
A StarCraft shooter has always been a dream for so many of us diehards! I would love to see one made in a similar way of Gears of War/Space Marine. Gonna keep my fingers crossed hard for this one to make it.
As someone that really prefer the Starcraft universe over W4k (no matter if it is inspired from it), this is amazing. I would love to see something like that.
That's heresy
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