Blizzard's Latest Attempt at a StarCraft Shooter Reportedly in Development at Nexon

Blizzard has reportedly partnered with Korean gaming elephantine Nexon for yet different ace astatine turning StarCraft into a shooter.

While unconfirmed by Blizzard itself, the task is the taxable of an nonfiction successful The Korea Economic Daily, the country's largest concern newspaper. The study states that Nexon has a improvement squad dedicated to the task wrong its shooter division, with a StarCraft modder installed arsenic its task lead.

Blizzard has agelong held ambitions to motorboat a shooter spin-off from its sci-fi real-time strategy series, portion Nexon has precocious recovered Western occurrence wrong the shooter abstraction arsenic the proprietor of Swedish improvement workplace Embark Studio — the outfit down The Finals and Arc Raiders.

Still, the study is cautious connected the project's improvement — noting that Nexon antecedently partnered with Square Enix to make a Final Fantasy spin-off that faltered successful the readying stages. A enactment of caution present is apt wise, too, considering Blizzard's ain way grounds connected abandoned StarCraft spin-off projects.

StarCraft Ghost, announced successful 2002, was Blizzard's archetypal effort to grow the bid beyond its real-time strategy origins. Planned arsenic a tactical-action console crippled successful which you played arsenic a deadly Ghost operative successful the employment of the Dominion, it was canceled successful 2006 aft a bid of delays.

A 2nd StarCraft shooter attempt, codenamed Ares, was canceled successful 2019 truthful Blizzard could absorption connected Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2. Ares was reportedly "like Battlefield successful the StarCraft universe," but, similar Ghost, fell by the wayside. Finally, successful 2024, Bloomberg newsman Jason Schreier shared connection of a 3rd StarCraft shooter task past successful improvement wrong Blizzard, with erstwhile Far Cry enforcement shaper Dan Hay, who joined Blizzard successful 2022, starring the charge.

Could Nexon's shooter beryllium the aforesaid task arsenic the 1 Hay had been leading, oregon a caller iteration of it? This remains unclear, particularly since Hay's task had seemingly been successful improvement 2 years ago, whereas Nexon's crippled sounds much caller — and developed connected a antithetic continent. IGN has contacted Blizzard for more.

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