Blizzard reportedly developing StarCraft shooter with former Far Cry boss leading the project
It has been reported that Blizzard is once again working on a shooter set in the StarCraft universe, with former Far Cry boss Dan Hay leading its development.
The details:
The claim was made in Play Nice, an upcoming book about Blizzard by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, which was discussed on the latest episode of IGN's Unlocked podcast. During the podcast, IGN editor Ryan McCaffrey mentions that near the end of the book, Schreier briefly states that Blizzard is once again attempting to create a StarCraft shooter, with Hay leading the development team.
This is the company's third attempt to create a shooter in the StarCraft universe, following Nihilistic Software's StarCraft: Ghost, which was put on hold in 2006, confirmed as canceled in 2014, with game files being leaked in 2020. The second attempt, a first-person shooter codenamed Ares, was canceled in 2019 after two years of development to focus on Diablo IV and Overwatch 2, with Heroes of the Storm director and StarCraft II lead designer Dustin Browder at the helm.
When McCaffrey asked if we could hear more about the project in the event it didn't get canceled, Schreier confirmed that it is still in the works as far as he knows, and was definitely in development when Play Nice was written. The journalist clarified that the book was not intended to reveal unannounced projects, but rather to tell the story of Blizzard and its return to previously abandoned ideas.
Hay, who had previously led Ubisoft's Far Cry franchise, was overseeing Blizzard's now-canceled survival game project, Odyssey. The game was scrapped earlier this year after several members of the development team were caught in the mass layoffs impacting Microsoft Gaming and its subsidiaries.
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