Blizzard announced an open world shooter set in the StarCraft universe at BlizzCon, set to release in 2030. A cinematic trailer was shown but no gameplay was revealed. Dan Hay, who had previously worked on the Far Cry series at Ubisoft, gave the live announcement on the BlizzCon Stage. An X/Twitter post from the official StarCraft account described the game as a "Story Driven Open World Shooter."

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sneakyfox

8218 Posts

September 12 2026 17:54 GMT

Oh man, that really made me laugh.

Here's the cinematic from the announcement:

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES51706 Posts

September 12 2026 17:59 GMT

made me laugh so much

WGT-Baal

France3574 Posts

September 12 2026 18:05 GMT

All this hype for this lol. Guess we ll see in 4 years

supernovamaniac

United States3048 Posts

September 12 2026 18:05 GMT

Had to reset password just to say

LOL 2030

ZeromuS

Canada13430 Posts

September 12 2026 18:13 GMT

2030 is CRAZY cuz they also did the mini ARG stuff, it just feels so far away, and will likely see a delay to boot. And the trailer didn't give us a sense of anything other than Marines being more well trained than they seemed to be before, zerg still a thing, and they said open world shooter. So like.... okay cool?

With the way some leaks about its announcement were coming out, it really sounded like there would be a smidge more meat to the announcement, and maybe not be THAT far away. 2028 or 2029 maybe lol

Waxangel

United States33711 Posts

September 12 2026 18:14 GMT

I'm sure this will be fun for ppl, but I haven't played a AAA single player game in like forever -_-

KobraKay

Portugal4394 Posts

September 12 2026 18:14 GMT

Well this was expected but not for so far away im the future…

Little-Chimp

Canada951 Posts

September 12 2026 18:16 GMT

Pretty cool cinematic honestly. But "open world shooter" and 2030 zzzzzz

Legan

Finland597 Posts

September 12 2026 18:17 GMT

#10

I wonder if they are even going to have any panels for this. Seems so early. Any questions from the audience could lead to very silly moments.

LED_Mirage

4 Posts

September 12 2026 18:18 GMT

#11

Context: Dan Hay joined Blizzard in 2022

Brutaxilos

United States2634 Posts

September 12 2026 18:18 GMT

#12

Literally naming it Starcraft (as far as I can tell). This is StarCraft RTS erasure. Also, are they now officially uncapitalizing the C in StarCraft?

Cyro

United Kingdom20345 Posts

September 12 2026 18:20 GMT

#13

Open world shooter is kind of blegh at best, and from the trailer and name it looked like they focused as hard as possible on the "you're a generic human marine dude" rather than having one team play as zerg, one as protoss etc. In that case, what is the point of basically hijacking the Starcraft name/universe?

Legan

Finland597 Posts

September 12 2026 18:23 GMT

#14

lol Diablo V is coming in 2029 before the StarCraft shooter. They did well to hide that announcement, though.

Charoisaur

Germany16103 Posts

September 12 2026 18:36 GMT

#15

what does 'open world' shooter even mean?

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES51706 Posts

September 12 2026 18:37 GMT

#16

On September 13 2026 03:05 supernovamaniac wrote:
Had to reset password just to say

LOL 2030

Yo dude it's been forever.

cha0

Canada518 Posts

September 12 2026 18:45 GMT

#17

Should have just put no date at all. Wonder who makes these decisions. What a way to just destroy any hype right in the moment. Also announcing 2030 in 2026... SC Ghost was announced in 2002 and then cancelled in 2006...

Lexender

Mexico2665 Posts

September 12 2026 18:51 GMT

#18

I would've prefer what Reforge is getting

Waxangel

United States33711 Posts

September 12 2026 18:52 GMT

#19

The more relevant news for BW and SC2 is that Heroes of the Storm is getting new heroes, and War3 got re-remaster and new content in 2026