Last time, they were successful with Overwatch (as they didn’t release an FPS before!) – the history might repeat itself with Blizzard…

J. Allen Brack, the new president of Blizzard (he took over Mike Morhaime’s role after leaving last month), talked with VentureBeat, and he said that Blizzard is preparing something big. This project’s head would be Tom Chilton, who left the World of Warcraft team in late 2016.

„You have to decide how you want to invest. We have a lot of different senior game developers who have a lot of different interests in a lot of different genres. Tom Chilton worked on WoW for more than 13 years. He and I, in my old job, started up a new project that was not something like Blizzard has ever done before. He’s passionate about it. He plays that genre of the game very deeply. He understands it, he’s excited about it, and we want to help him do that,” Brack said.

The new project is likely going to be set in one, already existing Blizzard IP: „Going back to this theme of Blizzard as bigger than all of us, it’s to make sure that the games and the franchises and the characters and the IP we’ve been able to create continue. We think about a lot of the different IP that we have. We feel like there are lots of different games that can exist in each of those IPs. We feel like there’s a lot of characters and fertile territory for new types of experiences.

Take Overwatch as the most recent IP we’ve released. We think of Overwatch, a game that everyone knows today, as being a tiny part of what the Overwatch ecosystem could be. We believe that’s true for all of our games. If you think about Warcraft III and World of Warcraft, those are very different gaming experiences. They appeal to different people. But there’s a lot of the same story, characters, and lore.

Continuing that forward in an excellent, healthy way is number one. Blizzard is very much known for making great games. It’s ready when it’s ready,” Brack added.

A racing game? A fighting game? Or an action-adventure title? Perhaps an action RPG (but not in an isometric view)? What will this new project be? We’ll see eventually…

Source: WCCFTech