Nexon, the large Korean developer and writer, is alleged to be near inking a cope with Blizzard over the rights to develop a sequel within the StarCraft franchise.
That is in accordance with a report from Korean newspaper Chosun (through ResetEra), citing a “senior sport trade official” who mentioned the contract between the 2 firms “is on the verge of being finalised”.
If accomplished, Nexon will have the ability 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 sport within the franchise. After all, because the report suggests, a Nexon-developed StarCraft 3 can be a serious 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 robust within the nation. In some ways, aggressive StarCraft laid the groundwork for esports as a complete. A Korean-developed StarCraft RTS would definitely make numerous sense.
An RTS might not be what we’re getting, nonetheless. Earlier this yr, a unique report mentioned Blizzard is teaming up with Nexon to develop a shooter based on StarCraft, so it is unclear what sort of sport – or video games – is within the works.
Making issues much more complicated, Blizzard is alleged 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 possible 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 lively 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.
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