Blizzard is reportedly once again “incubating” a shooter based on its seminal sci-fi strategy series StarCraft.The tidbit comes from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier and his upcoming book about the company called Play Nice, which was discussed at length on Podcast Unlocked. “Yes, that is a project that, as far as I know, is in development,” Schreier says at the 44-minute mark, “or at least as of the time I wrote this book, it was in development – so, yes, they are working on a StarCraft shooter. StarCraft is not dead at Blizzard.”

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Not much is known about the project, aside from the fact that former Far Cry lead Dan Hay is reportedly at the helm. Hay was supposedly overseeing the publisher’s first new series since Overwatch – the fairytale survival game Odyssey, which was unceremoniously canceled amid layoffs – but transitioned to StarCraft shortly after.The third time might just be a charm…