After almost a decade in hibernation, StarCraft is (possibly) formally again. Within the wake of a new report that Blizzard Entertainment is reviving StarCraft with assist from Korean writer Nexon, there seems to be some precise motion within the real-time technique sci-fi sport collection — this time from Blizzard itself. With BlizzCon 2026 simply days away, Blizzard followers are digging by clues that may be hinting at a brand new StarCraft venture.
On Thursday, followers found secret messages hidden on the official StarCraft website, with clues pointing at a follow-up to StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void.
The official StarCraft web site seems very like it has for the reason that launch of 2017’s StarCraft Remastered. However guests to the location will discover that a number of the web page’s visuals look… glitchy. It is an unsettling impact, and does not reveal a lot a few potential StarCraft 3 or the long-rumored shooter set within the StarCraft universe. However what’s behind the scenes is extra fascinating.
StarCraft followers have seen {that a} handful of cryptic and redacted messages are hidden within the web site’s code. Viewing the location’s JavaScript console reveals a handful of messages, a few of them encoded in binary and a few in plainly seen textual content.
Secret messages are hidden on the StarCraft web site
Two of the messages trace at an unidentified particular person making an attempt to log right into a Terran Dominion server.
>>Run programs test.
>INVALID CREDENTIALS
>>Username: 2560037-DA
>>Password: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>ERROR
>USER FLAGGED
>CONTACT DOMINION SERVICE DESK IMMEDIATELY
>>Requesting data on particular order 176
>INVALID CREDENTIALS
>UNABLE TO COMPLY
>>Who’s concerned with particular order 176?
>INSUFFICIENT CLEARANCE
Different messages hidden within the StarCraft web site’s code make extra express references to the collection lore. There’s point out of a Terran Banshee transport ship, the Terran frontier world of Roxara, and a Dominion Theta Squadron group. The next message additionally features a date for one piece of correspondence: the 12 months 2575, which might place the occasions that Blizzard is teasing about 70 years after the setting of StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void.
This is one of many lengthier messages:
FROM: 1SG S████████ V█████
SENT: 2575-08-08-2601:18
TO: ROXARA LUNAR MINING COMPLEX – OPERATIONS
SUBJECT: ███ THETA SQUADRON – ARRIVAL PROTOCOL
CONFIDENTIAL – DO NOT SHARE
ATTN. ROXARA LUNAR MINING COMPLEX,
Theta Squadron is en route, anticipate arrival to Roxara on 2575-08-09-███████. A ███████████████ Freighter will arrive upfront of Theta Squadron. Put together docking lodging accordingly.
Our work should start instantly upon touchdown. Make sure the cargo manifest beneath is on board the ███████████████ Freighter. Failure to point inconsistencies won’t be tolerated.
Take the utmost warning when dealing with the crates. They’re pivotal to our analysis. Any carelessness or mistreatment might jeopardize the success of our operation.
For the Glory of the ████████.
S. V█████
12974-S
Different messages look like extra mundane, hinting at monitoring unidentified lifeforms and the medical standing of two redacted sufferers. However all the things found thus far solely pertains to one StarCraft faction, the Terrans.
Blizzard is reportedly growing a StarCraft shooter, with former Far Cry producer Dan Hay — who joined Blizzard in 2022 — main the venture. Blizzard itself revealed in 2024, through a job itemizing, that it was growing an “open-world shooter sport” that has not been introduced. If that is a StarCraft sport, we’ll doubtless know extra quickly: BlizzCon returns, after a three-year hiatus, on Sept. 12.
The StarCraft franchise debuted in March 1998 with the discharge of Blizzard’s authentic sci-fi real-time technique sport. An enlargement, StarCraft: Brood Warfare, adopted in December. It took Blizzard one other 12 years to ship a sequel, StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. The sequel obtained two expansions: 2013’s Coronary heart of the Swarm and 2015’s Legacy of the Void. StarCraft has lain dormant since 2017, when Blizzard launched StarCraft: Remastered.
Blizzard has tried a number of spinoff tasks over time, together with the notorious third-person shooter StarCraft: Ghost and a shooter codenamed “Ares.”
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