A New RPG and FPS Hybrid Coming From Blizzard?
Blizzard continues to surprise its players. As Diablo 4’s Season 5 continues and The War Within expansion breathes new life into World of Warcraft, a job posting from Blizzard hints at a mysterious RPG and FPS game the studio is working on.
Blizzard’s New Project: The Perfect Blend of RPG and FPS?
With Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, one of the bad news we heard at the beginning of the year was that the studio’s unannounced survival game in development had been canceled. However, as Season 6 of Diablo 4 approaches and The War Within is out, hints have surfaced that Blizzard may be working on another big project. These hints suggest that the studio is working on an RPG and FPS hybrid. Moreover, it looks like this game will be a high-budget production for both PC and consoles.
A LinkedIn page of Chris McCabe, Blizzard’s Senior Director of Product Management, sheds light on this mysterious project. McCabe states that he is working on an “unannounced AAA RPG-FPS game”.
The company has worked on similar projects before, but some of them never saw the light of day. For example, the studio’s MMO shooter Titan was canceled, but the foundations of this game later emerged as Overwatch. Perhaps this new RPG-FPS hybrid could be an extension of the canceled survival game or an entirely new concept.
If we remember Blizzard’s big hiring drive back in April, they were looking to fill key positions like a narrative director and design directors for this new game. This shows just how ambitious the company is for what it calls “the next big game”.
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