It already appeared possible that Starcraft would make an look at BlizzCon. Now it might be stranger if it did not. Blizzard’s official web site for Starcraft Remastered is presently ‘glitching out,’ and diving into the backend has revealed a collection of secret messages that time to extra occasions within the Starcraft timeline. Add in current stories of potential partnerships for the RTS recreation, and a suspicious hole within the BlizzCon stage schedule, and all of it appears slightly easy.
Blizzard has completely packed BlizzCon 2026 to the brim, with fixed panels and tournaments all through the two-day ceremony. There’s only one very notable break, and it is early on day one – proper on the primary stage. It would be very unusual to only go away a full hour between the World of Warcraft and Diablo developer updates, particularly provided that the everyday break for viewers shuffling is barely quarter-hour for different parts, and a brand new Starcraft recreation could be the plain match.
The most recent growth is that this glitched Starcraft Remastered web site. It is not onerous to identify, as proven under; nearly each aspect on the web page will get a flip to flicker and flash, or shift awkwardly misplaced and again. Proper-click to examine the web page extra carefully, and navigate over to the ‘console’ tab, and you will most likely encounter some unusual messages, which have been steadily altering over the previous a number of hours, and appear to level to occasions that happen past the top of Starcraft 2.
Reddit person ‘RaiausderDose’ has been compiling these messages on the Starcraft Reddit for the previous a number of hours, and so they embody a number of dates in 2575. That is 67 years on from the concluding act of Starcraft 2’s epilogue, Into the Void. Among the many different cryptic messages are what look like important indicators (coronary heart charge, blood stress, physique temperature, and so on) and army transmissions, a few of which had been initially displayed in binary.
“Theta Squadron is en route, anticipate arrival to Roxara on 2575-08-09,” reads one. A few of the message has been blocked out, however it mentions a freighter arriving on the planet (which may be present in Starcraft’s Koprulu Sector), and plans to start work “instantly on touchdown.” It additionally provides, “Take the utmost warning when dealing with the crates. They’re pivotal to our analysis. Any carelessness or mistreatment might jeopardize the success of our operation.”
The subsequent query is clearly, “What is that this new undertaking?” It is curious that Blizzard used the Starcraft Remastered web site to tease this, slightly than the Starcraft 2 one, which seems to be functioning as regular. I’ve lately been replaying the Starcraft 2 marketing campaign, and whereas it exhibits its age in some elements, it does so slightly gracefully; I do not assume it is in determined want of a remaster.
The rumors, for years now, have been that we’re due for a Starcraft shooter of some type. This may very well be an inner undertaking. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported in his 2024 e-book ‘Play Good: The Rise, Fall, and Way forward for Blizzard Leisure’ that the developer was taking a contemporary swing at such a undertaking. Schreier additionally mentions the involvement of former Far Cry boss Dan Hay, who moved from Ubisoft to Blizzard in 2022, which might tip the scales of chance in favor of an FPS.
Different stories have urged Blizzard has been in talks with a number of corporations to deal with a brand new Starcraft recreation, with Nexon being the identify that got here to the forefront. Simply this week, Korean information outlet Chosun reported that a deal between Nexon and Blizzard was “on the verge of being finalized.” Whereas it referred to as the potential undertaking “Starcraft 3,” that reads principally as hypothesis slightly than what we’re truly getting.
For those who ask me what I need, it is a new Starcraft RTS. However the staff that made that’s not with Blizzard, and it isn’t in Nexon’s conventional wheelhouse both, so I do not know the way a lot confidence I might have in such a undertaking. May it’s the non secular successor to Starcraft: Ghost, the stealth-action third-person shooter starring Nova, which was first introduced in 2002 after which quietly floated round till Blizzard formally confirmed in 2014 that it had been canned?
In all honesty, if we get one thing new from the Starcraft universe (and it is good) I will be greater than glad. I might desire a recreation over a TV present or film, however the mere acknowledgement that one in all Blizzard’s best creations continues to be worthy of consideration could be sufficient. Maintain your eyes on the Blizzcon fundamental stage for Saturday September 12 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET / 9pm BST / 10pm CEST, as a result of there is a good probability that is after we’ll know for positive.
