With BlizzCon only a week away, there’s new cause to consider that some form of StarCraft information is on the best way. Numerous visible components on the official StarCraft web site at the moment are glitching out in a method that appears far more “hey followers, get excited” than “alert the engineering workforce that we have got an issue.”
The glitches have been flagged on Bluesky by John Carson, and so they particularly seem on the part of Blizzard’s web site promoting 2017’s StarCraft Remastered, reasonably than StarCraft II. The glitches see sure photos and textual content develop into briefly distorted, although to my eye, there may be nothing particular to glean from them.Â
However this sudden advertising and marketing stunt feels noteworthy provided that the StarCraft franchise has largely been dormant for years. 2026 has introduced rumors that one thing is afoot: The writer behind Arc Raiders was stated to be engaged on a StarCraft shooter that might be revealed at BlizzCon. Extra lately, a report from The Chosun Each day claimed that Nexon was searching for the rights to develop a brand new RTS, probably StarCraft III.
That something is occurring with StarCraft may come as welcome information to followers of the franchise. StarCraft II was launched in three important elements between 2010 and 2015, and apart from the next remaster of the unique, no new video games within the collection have been launched and even introduced. As Blizzard’s focus shifted to sustaining WoW and Diablo, in addition to growing Overwatch, it wasn’t terribly shocking to see its extra area of interest real-time-strategy collection fall by the wayside, nevertheless it was no much less disappointing: The StarCraft video games are among the many greatest technique video games ever, and followers have been already tortured by way of years of hoping the canceled StarCraft: Ghost spin-off would ever see the sunshine of day.
StarCraft II did get a large replace earlier this yr, which could have been a part of an effort to start to revitalize curiosity within the franchise as Blizzard prepares to convey it again. Ought to that come solely within the type of the rumored shooter, that might come as a blow to these desirous to see Blizzard return to the technique style that it has in any other case deserted (first with Warcraft, after which with StarCraft). Had been that complemented by a brand new Nexon-developed RTS, it’d soften the blow, although the dearth of Blizzard’s direct affect would possibly undercut the joy such an announcement would in any other case produce, however beggars cannot be choosers, in spite of everything.Â
BlizzCon’s opening ceremony is ready to happen on 10:30 AM PT / 1:30 PM ET on Saturday, September 12. If there’s life within the StarCraft franchise, it appears like a positive factor that we’ll see some signal of it there. If not, anyone name StarCraft’s webmaster.