Blizzard reportedly acquires new StarCraft game stadium from famous South Korean developers

Blizzard is reportedly receiving pitches from a number of new StarCraft video games from Korean studios.

In an article that caught the internet attention from the X/Twitter account @kouraxboxnews, , , , , Today in Asia Four Korean companies are reportedly listed, which compete against each other to develop new games based on Starcraft IP and secure publishing rights: NCSOFT, NEXON, NETMARBLE and KRAFTON. Apparently, some of these companies have gone to Blizzard headquarters in Irving, California to pitch.

It is said that NCSOFT is behind the clan and guild war MMOs, and it is said that some type of RPG (MMORPG?). Nexon is the first descendant manufacturer, and he made a “unique” use of Starcraft IP. Netmarble (Sound Level: Arise, Game of Thrones: Kingsroad) hopes to make StarCraft mobile games. Krafton, the company behind Battle Royale Pubg and The Sims rival Inzoi, wanted to “make StarCraft games based on his own developmental abilities.”

Of course, video game companies have been putting other video game companies in ensuring publication rights and development contracts. Maybe there is no mention of any place here. But StarCraft fans will surely notice the interest of the Blizzard report… Given how long it has been since the last game in the series, it’s something to expand the beloved sci-fi universe. Activision Blizzard declined to comment when IGN contacted IGN.

It is worth remembering that September appeared Blizzard is trying to develop StarCraft Shooter for the third timeformer Island Cry executive producer Dan Hay joined Blizzard in 2022 to lead the charge.

The news comes from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, while talking to IGN’s podcast below, his latest book, The Rise of Nice: Blizzard Entertainment, Fall and Future. Hay's “StarCraft Shooting” is mentioned in the book, and IGN's Ryan McCaffrey asks Schreier if it might actually appear.

“If it's not cancelled!” Schreier replied. “It's a blizzard after all. They have a bad history with StarCraft Shooters.

“Yes, as far as I know, it's a project, or at least when I was working on this book. They're working on Starcraft shooter, and Starcraft didn't die in the Blizzard.

“The purpose of this book is not to do a bunch of spoons on what is coming. It's not the purpose of this book at all, it's very important to tell a story and focus on what's going on. However, it feels like a fun and useful Nugget that can be included because it really just shows you that Blizzards can't quit StarCraft Shooters.”

It's about Blizzard's infamous attempt to unleash StarCraft shooter games in the past, part of expanding the StarCraft series beyond the origins of its real-time strategy. StarCraft Ghostannounced in 2002, will be a tactical action console game where you played as the deadly ghost surgeon in Dominion’s use, but after a series of delays, it was cancelled in 2006.

The second attempt to make StarCraft Shooter, codenamed Ares, was canceled in 2019, so Blizzard can focus on Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2. Ares reportedly “like the battlefield in Starcraft Universe, but like a ghost, fell on the side of the road.

Recently, November Blizzard was found recruiting “upcoming open world shooting game”, All signs indicate that it is StarCraft FPS.

Things are slowly escalating to StarCraft. Blizzard recently released StarCraft: Remake and StarCraft 2: Campaign Collection on Game Passand announced StarCraft with Warcraft card game Hearthstone.

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