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Report: Blizzard began making, then canceled, a StarCraft first-person shooter

Accepted submission by Freeman at 2019-06-07 15:09:40 from the duke nukem forever never looked so good dept.
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On Wednesday, a vague tweet from a Blizzard game developer hinted at a canceled game project that fans would "never see," then announced his departure from the company. As questions started flying over what that game was, Kotaku super-reporter Jason Schreier showed up one day later with the scoop: the canceled game, which had been in development for two years, was a first-person shooter set in the StarCraft universe.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/06/report-blizzard-began-making-then-canceled-a-starcraft-first-person-shooter/ [arstechnica.com]

They canceled a StarCraft FPS, before it saw the light of day. Yet, they touted a Diablo mobile game out in front of everyone. This isn't the Blizzard it used to be.


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