StarCraft, Blizzard’s historical franchise that has lengthy since misplaced its cultural relevance, might be up for a revival—however not as a real-time technique sequence. No, this time it’s reportedly going to be a shooter, developed not by Blizzard however by the Korean juggernaut, Nexon.
This comes from a report by The Korea Financial Every day, a large enterprise newspaper. Translated from Korean through DeepL, the report says that “the legendary recreation StarCraft is ready to be revived by Nexon, South Korea’s high recreation developer.”
“Preliminary preparations” for improvement have been accomplished, the report reads, and have been within the works since “a content material improvement cooperation settlement” was signed between Nexon and Blizzard in 2025. What’s significantly attention-grabbing is that this new StarCraft recreation received’t proceed the custom of real-time technique that the franchise has develop into identified for, however is as a substitute being dealt with by Nexon’s “Shooter Division (Capturing Enterprise Unit)” implying it’ll be a third- or first-person shooter.
A StarCraft modder, Choi Joon-ho, has been introduced on as a planning lead as a consequence of his expertise with the sequence and talent to “extract mass attraction.”
As IGN writes, Blizzard has seemingly been engaged on a StarCraft shooter since at the very least 2022, this being the corporate’s third try at branching the sequence out of the now-not-so-popular RTS style. What occurred to that challenge is anybody’s guess, neither is it clear whether or not Nexon and Blizzard are engaged on the identical or separate initiatives.
Blizzard has additionally been internet hosting thirty fifth anniversary occasions for 4 of its main franchises over the previous 10 days or so, however conveniently left StarCraft out. Even Hearthstone acquired its personal occasion, whereas StarCraft is nowhere to be discovered. Whether or not that’s as a result of the corporate deemed the franchise unfit of the sources or as a result of one thing is within the works that wants a a lot better, larger occasion is, as of but, unclear.
It’s definitely excellent news that there’s at the very least one thing being talked about, as StarCraft does certainly have quite a lot of potential these days, particularly within the wake of Warhammer 40K‘s rising reputation.
