by JR Cook - 2 months ago     show comments

Something’s brewing in the StarCraft universe. The official StarCraft website has started glitching, with the background image and Battle.net logo flickering as if some kind of interference is breaking through. Given that BlizzCon 2026 kicks off next week on September 12-13, the timing points to an imminent announcement.

The glitching website currently shows the same StarCraft Remastered information it’s displayed for years, making the sudden visual interference all the more deliberate. Blizzard knows how to tease a reveal, and this feels like classic pre-BlizzCon hype building.

The StarCraft Shooter Reports

Earlier this year, reports surfaced that Blizzard is developing a first-person shooter set in the StarCraft universe, with plans to reveal it at BlizzCon. The project was first detailed in Jason Schreier’s book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, which revealed that former Far Cry boss Dan Hay is leading development. Hay left Ubisoft Montreal in 2021 after a decade overseeing the Far Cry series during its most successful period.

In February, a second StarCraft shooter surfaced in reports from South Korea, this one co-developed with Arc Raiders owner Nexon. According to those reports, Nexon’s shooter division began full-scale development on a StarCraft IP game. Schreier later clarified that the Nexon project appears unrelated to the Dan Hay-led shooter mentioned in his book, meaning Blizzard could be working on at least two StarCraft shooters simultaneously.

StarCraft shooters have a complicated history at Blizzard. Two previous attempts, codenamed Ghost and Ares, were both cancelled before seeing release. If the glitching website is indeed teasing what the reports suggest, Blizzard will finally be ready to show what a StarCraft FPS can be.

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We’ll know more when BlizzCon 2026 begins on September 12.

Source: Video Games Chronicle