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It's really starting to look like a new StarCraft game will be revealed at BlizzCon
Initial reports of a Nexon-developed shooter were met with doubt, but now something funky is happening with the StarCraft 2 website. And have you seen the BlizzCon schedule?
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I don't want to get anybody's hopes up, but with BlizzCon 2026 now just over a week away, it really is starting to look like something—possibly something big—is happening in the world of StarCraft.
The excitement began earlier this week when Korea's Chosun (Google translated, via WCCFTech) ran a story saying Nexon is close to finalizing a deal to develop a new game based on the StarCraft series. As Chosun noted, the series has been dormant since StarCraft Remastered in 2017; the last original StarCraft game, StarCraft 2, arrived all the way back in 2010. Despite that, the series remains hugely popular in Korea.
The StarCraft subreddit took some issues with the report: For one thing, Chosun suggested the new game would be StarCraft 3, rather than the StarCraft shooter Nexon is reportedly working on. There are also concerns that the report might be accurate, given CEO Junghun Lee's enthusiasm for generative AI and microtransactions. Still, the timing seemed right: BlizzCon 2026 runs September 12-13, which is now less than two weeks away.
That's how things remained until earlier today, when the StarCraft website started glitching, in the way that doesn't happen unless it's intentional: Images twitching, text flashing, all that sort of thing. The classic loss of signal right before something happens—that's probably not a coincidence, right?
It's a bit more conspiracy-coded, but the WoW subreddit has also noticed a rather peculiar gap in the BlizzCon main stage schedule—about an hour, early on the first day, that's unaccounted for. What might fit into that hour? Well, anything that takes 60 minutes or less, really, but the prevailing opinion seems to be StarCraft.
Whatever the situation, that gap is definitely there:
Our resident Blizzard pro Tyler Colp cast his wizened eye upon the BlizzCon floor map and saw nothing carved out for StarCraft, so even if a new game is announced, it likely won't be playable—although it's possible Blizzard is camouflaging a demo area in the Well of Eternity or whatever.
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