According to the book Play Nice published by Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier via Eurogamer, a new shooter game set in the StarCraft universe is being worked on at Blizzard. The project is headed by Dan Hay, who worked in various leading roles in Ubisoft's Far Cry series, as well as the 1999 CGI movie “The Nuttiest Nutcracker” starring Jim Belushi. Real-time strategy spinoffs were also mentioned in an IGN podcast published yesterday.
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This will be Blizzard's third attempt at a Starcraft shooter. Nihilistic Software's Ghost was announced in 2002, suspended indefinitely in 2006, then officially canceled 8 years later in 2014. Ghost's protagonist, Nova, eventually appeared in Starcraft 2 as part of Project: Nova, which included several single-player story expansions. Missions that take place after Legacy Of The Void.
More recently, another shooter codenamed Ares was rumored to be canceled in 2019. “It was like Battlefield in the StarCraft universe,” a source told Kotaku at the time. “The team had built prototypes that featured the player as a player. The Terran marine could shoot down Zerg aliens, and there were also plans to experiment with playable Zerg.”
When it comes to this new shooter, details seem pretty scant at the moment. This isn't Hay's first game at Blizzard; he also worked on Odyssey, a survival project that was canceled this January. The cancellation coincided with the layoffs of nearly 2,000 people across the Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax and Xbox teams.
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