Nexon, the large Korean developer and writer, is claimed to be near inking a cope with Blizzard over the rights to develop a sequel within the StarCraft franchise.
That is based on a report from Korean newspaper Chosun (through ResetEra), citing a “senior recreation trade official” who mentioned the contract between the 2 firms “is on the verge of being finalised”.
If accomplished, Nexon will be capable to develop a sequel, although it is unclear from the machine translation whether or not which means a follow-up to StarCraft 2 particularly, or a brand new recreation within the franchise. After all, because the report suggests, a Nexon-developed StarCraft 3 could be a significant deal.
StarCraft and StarCraft 2 stay among the many hottest titles in South Korea’s PC bangs (web cafes). Certainly, the aggressive scene for real-time technique video games stays sturdy within the nation. In some ways, aggressive StarCraft laid the groundwork for esports as an entire. A Korean-developed StarCraft RTS will surely make quite a lot of sense.
An RTS is probably not what we’re getting, nonetheless. Earlier this 12 months, a unique report mentioned Blizzard is teaming up with Nexon to develop a shooter based on StarCraft, so it is unclear what sort of recreation – or video games – is within the works.
Making issues much more complicated, Blizzard is claimed to be engaged on a StarCraft shooter of its personal, a project that is apparently lead by former Far Cry boss Dan Hay.
Regardless of the case could also be, we’re seemingly going to listen to one thing at BlizzCon later this month, the place a StarCraft-related announcement is anticipated. The strongest trace but of that has been the surprise, meta-altering update StarCraft 2 received back in June, six years after Blizzard ceased energetic improvement of the sport.
BlizzCon takes place Twelfth-Thirteenth September, so we simply want to attend slightly longer to hopefully get some readability on that.