A new Starcraft game is on the way from the publishers of Dave The Diver and The Finals, according to reports

Nexon is Blizzard's "preferred bidder" for Starcraft and Overwatch Mobile

It's been truthful agelong since the past Starcraft that each I tin retrieve is that Zergs physique connected creep, the Protoss Void Ray is simply a glorified Xmas bauble, and Jim Curry went to space. I'm beauteous definite astatine slightest 1 of those things is from immoderate different strategy crippled universe. Maybe Worms. How agelong indispensable we hold for a Starcraft 3? A agelong clip yet, but perchance not forever, for Blizzard are seemingly handing the rights to the cherished RTS bid to Nexon, steadfast of Dave the Diver and The Finals.

As reported by South Korean concern tract MTN (via Google translation) and written up by PCGamer, Nexon person been selected arsenic the "preferred" campaigner for Starcraft improvement rights pursuing a bidding warfare with Guild Wars steadfast NCSoft, Solo Leveling: Arise creators Netmarble and PUBG: Battlegrounds outfit Krafton. Nexon are also, it's claimed, successful the moving to onshore Korean and Japanese work rights for a caller Overwatch mobile game, referred to by immoderate bidders arsenic Overwatch 3, but successful actuality a MOBA spin-off.

According to MTN, the bidders person pitched respective caller Starcraft concepts astatine Blizzard, ranging from spin-off games to "platforms", though it's not known what Nexon specifically proposed. Apparently, the negotiations person been "complicated" by the information that portion making a caller RTS crippled is the evident prime and doubtless the champion usage of the license, cipher wants to spell toe-to-toe with Blizzard's ain Starcraft 2, which remains a immense deed successful South Korea contempt reports of its "death" arsenic an esport. There's besides been speech of a MOBA adaptation, arsenic with Overwatch mobile. Good luck selling that to the Windows 98 diehards.

Why aren't Blizzard themselves making a caller Starcraft RTS? Who knows, specified a task whitethorn beryllium heavy wrong the company, mislaid successful a trove of Diablo 4 merchandise, but each they're talking astir astatine contiguous is the latest Quixotic effort to marque a Starcraft shooter.