Kotaku’s ‘Jason Schreier’ has reported that Blizzard has cancelled a first-person shooter game that was set in the StarCraft universe. This StarCraft shooter has been under development for two years and Blizzard decided to cancel it in order to focus on Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2.
According to Schreier’s sources, this StarCraft shooter was described as “Battlefield in the StarCraft universe” and it was looking quite good until the moment it was cancelled.
Surprisingly enough, Blizzard responded to Kotaku’s story, basically confirming that this StarCraft project was indeed under development, with the following statement.
“We always make decisions about these things, regardless of the ultimate outcome or how things might be interpreted, based on our values, what we believe makes sense for Blizzard, and what we hope our players will enjoy the most.”
The cancellation of this latest StarCraft project reminded me of StarCraft: Ghost; another SC game that was cancelled by Blizzard. In case you aren’t aware of, StarCraft: Ghost was a third-person shooter-stealth game that was cancelled in 2006.
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LOL Overwatch 2? Why? It’s an e-sport title doesn’t need a sequel. You only need to add new champions that’s it.
I never understand Blizzards no wonder they are bankrupting.
Exactly, I’d love to batter the person that made this decision.
F*ing dicks!
can anyone say with a certainty that the new blizzard would have made a good game though? i mean, i think the reason they cancelled it to begin with was that the universe is too dark and they couldn’t dumb it down.
Bet they couldn’t think of enough loot box skins for dumb consumers to buy.
Their values says them if people prefer a blatant TF2 clone why bother with new ideas?
I’m sorry but this is a prime example folks of the current mess of the gaming industry! F*king d*cks!
There are some rumors going around Overwatch 2 is a full blown mmo. If so im kinda curious what that would even look like.
Outside Diablo I’ll never understand why people like or liked Blizzard.
They ripped off everything they have from better pieces of media.
“Battlefield in the StarCraft universe”
One less SJW game then. Schreier will be weeping. Nothing of value has been lost.
Isn’t Starcraft the most anti-sjw game around? It is literally walking steriods in armor shooting estrogen filled aliens.
The game sounds like CoD and Warhammer had a baby.
Thank god they canceled it, its not Starcraft FPS, its competitive trash.
“Blizzard has been developing a new StarCraft first-person shooter for the past two years, but, according to reliable Kotaku insider Jason Schreier, the project has been cancelled. The now-dead project, codenamed Ares, would have been a serious competitive shooter, described as “Battlefield in the StarCraft universe” by those who worked on it. Players would have take on the role of a Terran facing off against the Zerg hordes, and there were plans to possibly make the scaly aliens playable as well.”
Blizzard are very careful about their “brand identity”, except when Diablo is involved for some reason.
They valued Overwatch 2 over this……f**k blizzard.