StarCraft Shooter Likely To Be Revealed At BlizzCon, Report Suggests

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There’s growing excitement that StarCraft could return with a new game. Recent reports suggest Blizzard is planning to announce a third-person shooter based on the popular sci-fi series at this year’s BlizzCon event.

Jez Corden of Windows Central reports that Blizzard might showcase a StarCraft-based shooter at their fan convention this September.

We don’t have many details about the game yet, including whether it will have a multiplayer mode. However, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier first mentioned it in his 2024 book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment. Reports suggest Dan Hay, who previously led the Far Cry series, is now heading up this project. Journalist Jeff Grubb has confirmed the game is in development through his own sources, but hasn’t revealed anything further about its gameplay or features.

Blizzard has attempted to create a StarCraft-based shooter before. Back in the mid-2000s, they famously canceled StarCraft: Ghost, a third-person shooter set after the Brood War expansion, where players would have controlled a character called a “Ghost.” Although the game disappeared for years, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime didn’t officially confirm its cancellation until 2014.

StarCraft hasn’t had a major update from Blizzard in about ten years—the last campaign content came out in 2016—but its universe has lived on through crossovers in other Blizzard games. Recently, players could unlock StarCraft-themed skins in Diablo 4, and Hearthstone even got a full set of StarCraft-inspired cards earlier last year.

According to Corden, BlizzCon 2026 will likely include an announcement for a new Diablo 4 expansion, coming only six months after the release of Lord of Hatred. We can also expect more information about the upcoming The Last Titan expansion for World of Warcraft, and updates on the future of Overwatch.

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2026-01-07 20:09