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Blizzard to Revive StarCraft as Open-World Shooter in 2030

Blizzard announced at BlizzCon that StarCraft will return in 2030 as an open-world shooter, reviving the series more than a decade after it went dormant.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-13 04:54

The new game marks a shift from the franchise's top-down real-time strategy roots. The Verge reported that it is not another RTS installment but an open-world shooter. Blizzard first tried to bring the StarCraft universe into 3D shooters in 2002 with StarCraft: Ghost. That project spent years in development before Blizzard president Mike Morhaime confirmed in 2014 that it had been canceled. The Verge reported that the new StarCraft arrives ten years after the last StarCraft II expansion pack.

At BlizzCon, Hay showed a cinematic trailer focused on the human United Earth Directorate faction as it prepares to face the Zerg. The Protoss receive only a passing mention. The trailer begins with a call to militarism and then shows the brutal realities of battle; a character followed for roughly three minutes is revealed to be disposable fuel for war. The Verge reported that the trailer makes clear the new take on StarCraft will not pull many punches.

Fans are excited that Blizzard is bringing the long-dormant series back, according to The Verge. But the report said many are still holding their breath, hoping for a proper RTS follow-up to 2010's StarCraft II.