There are reportedly two StarCraft shooters now in development

Ever since Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard, there have been rumours of a StarCraft revival, moving beyond the previous RTS titles and into the shooter genre. A new rumour claims that Blizzard now has two new StarCraft projects in the works, with one of them being made in collaboration with Nexon, who recently funded and published Arc Raiders. 

The news comes from the South Korean outlet, dnews. The rumour coming from South Korea makes sense, as StarCraft was massively popular in the country and is still widely played to this day. The report cites ‘industry sources' that say that Nexon signed a contract with Blizzard last year to produce a game, and they are now in the process of ramping up the development team for it.

According to Jason Schreier, who claimed that Blizzard was also working on its own StarCraft shooter in-house in his latest book last year, this new Nexon project is unrelated to the shooter that he previously reported. That means that Blizzard has its own in-house game on the way, perhaps with a stronger focus on a single-player campaign, while Nexon is developing its own game, which could more likely be a large-scale multiplayer.

Unfortunately, there is still no word on when we might see either StarCraft shooter come to fruition. Game development takes a long time and Blizzard's previous attempt, StarCraft Ghost, was ultimately cancelled.

KitGuru Says: StarCraft is a fantastic IP and is one that would suit the shooter genre tremendously well. Hopefully we'll be able to get our hands on at least one of these games over the next few years. 

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