Following StarCraft reports, Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter game’

Blizzard is advertising job roles for an “upcoming open-world shooter game”.

The job roles have been published following a report earlier this year that Blizzard was once again working on a StarCraft shooter.

Multiple roles including associate design director, senior designer, and principal designer for an unannounced game are being advertised. Several of the job listings reference an “open-world shooter game”. No further details of the game are included in the job descriptions.

Earlier this year, it was claimed in Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier’s book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment that a new StarCraft shooter was in development at Blizzard. 

The passage, which refers to two previous StarCraft shooters, reads: “Most of the developers were laid off, while a few would remain with Hay to begin incubating, of all things, a new StarCraft shooter. Perhaps after StarCraft Ghost and Ares, the third time would be the charm.”

Ex-Far Cry boss Dan Hay left Ubisoft in 2021 after a decade at its Montreal studio, where he was credited for overseeing the series during its most prosperous period.

It was then stated in December 2022 that he was heading up a survival game at Blizzard, but in January 2024 it was announced that the game, which had been codenamed Odyssey, had been cancelled.