The idea of a Blizzard-made, StarCraft-focused shooter has been floating around since the first announcement of StarCraft: Ghost in 2002, but the project’s subsequent closure seemed to firmly close the coffin.
When Blizzard shut down their next attempt in 2019 to focus on Overwatch 2, fans all but gave up — but an IGN interview with Jason Schreier has caused that ember of hope to flare once again.
Third time’s the charm? In the interview, Schreier says, “StarCraft is not dead at Blizzard.” He mentions a project focused on creating a shooter set inside the StarCraft universe, although he does point out that it could very well be canceled like the first two attempts.
Schreier gave no details about what the game might look like, when it would release, or even if it would be first- or third-person.
He did say, however, that Dan Hay, director of Far Cry 5, was leading the project — and that’s good news indeed. The first attempt was called StarCraft: Ghost and was supposed to be a third-person stealth game focusing on the Ghost unit, a type of psionic spy-commando.