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Blizzard is hiring people to work for an upcoming open-world shooter game. It is rumored to be related to the company's Starcraft franchise.
The jobs that the studio is supposedly looking for include associate design director, senior designer, and many others. A lot of the job listings also reference an "open-world shooter game" but no further details have been shared.
Blizzard's Open-World Shooter Game
It was rumored earlier this year that Blizzard was working on a new Starcraft shooter game. This was referenced in Bloomberg reporter Jason Shreier's book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment.
The part of the book where this was mentioned referred to two previous Starcraft shooters. It said that most of the developers were laid off but a few of them were kept with Dan Hay and started to work on a new Starcraft-themed shooter.
Dan Hay was the former lead of Far Cry and separated ways with Ubisoft in 2021. This was after spending a decade at the company's Montreal studio. He is credited with overseeing the series while it was at its most prosperous period, according to the Video Games Chronicle.
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He then supposedly was the head of a survival game at Blizzard in December 2022 but that project was announced to have been canceled in January 2024. The latest job ad by the studio also noted the significance of one position in particular.
This was the associate design director of innovation who is responsible for being the vision holder and owner of key strategic innovations. They will have to remain current with the latest developments in both the indie and AAA environments.
The Starcraft Franchise
Schreier said that the Starcraft shooter was a project that as far as he knew was still in development at Blizzard. He noted that the goal of his book was not to report information he got about a lot of projects, IGN said.
It was simply a way for the Bloomberg reporter to tell a story and also focus on a lot of different stuff that had already happened. But he believed that the Starcraft shooter was such an interesting story that he included it in his book.
It was previously reported that the studio was working on Starcraft Ghost, which was a third-person action-adventure set in the franchise's universe. The project ultimately got canceled in 2006. This was before the Battlefield-like Starcraft shooter that was also dropped in 2019, according to Kotaku.
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