It\u2019s been over 15 years since Blizzard\u2019s beloved real-time strategy game, StarCraft 2, came out. Now, a new game in the series has been announced \u2014 but it\u2019s still years away.Revealed at BlizzCon 2026, the simply named StarCraft is the next title in the sci-fi franchise, and it\u2019s going to look markedly different from its predecessors.In fact, it\u2019s a completely different genre.<\/p>\n
StarCraft is an open-world shooter, and it\u2019s due out in 2030. While this distant launch window makes it hard to get too excited about StarCraft just yet, Blizzard has a history of announcing games far before they're ready for the public to play. In fact, it\u2019s something the company behind Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch is notorious for doing, historically touting the mantra: \u201cIt\u2019ll be ready when it\u2019s ready.\u201dThe announcement of a new StarCraft game was expected at BlizzCon, after the official StarCraft website became rife with visual \u2018glitches,\u2019 and issued a \u2018warning\u2019 telling users their device has been \u201ccompromised.\u201d Fans took this to mean that a big update for the franchise was on the horizon, and they were right.Indeed, rumors of a StarCraft shooter had been circling for years.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier told IGN\u2019s Podcast Unlocked about Blizzard\u2019s third attempt at developing a StarCraft shooter with former Far Cry executive producer Dan Hay, who joined Blizzard in 2022, leading the charge. Then, later in 2024, a job posting was listed for an \u2018upcoming open-world shooter\u2019 that fans were certain was tied to this StarCraft game.Blizzard has had a tough time developing StarCraft shooters over the years.<\/p>\n
StarCraft Ghost, announced in 2002, was going to be a tactical-action console game in which you played as a deadly Ghost operative in the employ of the Dominion, but it was canceled in 2006 after a series of delays.A second attempt to make a StarCraft shooter, codenamed Ares, was canceled in 2019 so Blizzard could focus on Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2.<\/p>\n
Ares was reportedly \u201clike Battlefield in the StarCraft universe,\u201d but, like Ghost, fell by the wayside.Now, it\u2019s a case of third time lucky for Blizzard with this new StarCraft shooter in development. Check out everything announced at BlizzCon 2026 for all the news from across veloping\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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