Blizzard exec teases Burning Crusade launch with… StarCraft-Next?

Pro-G was at the HMV Oxford Burning Crusade launch party, and they heard Blizzard VP Business Development and International Itzik Ben Bassat say the following. You know what? Let’s make that “Pro-G swears by all that is holy they heard Blizzard VP Bassat say the following”:

I’m a StarCraft player myself and I hope it’s not a decade, and we launched StarCraft in 1998, before I’m standing here again, celebrating the next game in the series.

Kerrigan’s ghost, Bassat! (Whoa, a pun. Kerrigan’s ghost… Kerrigan WAS a Ghost… hehe) If there’s a way to start a riot among the gamers of the late 90’s, that’s one way. Kaplan and LeCraft both have been dropping hints about an under-wraps Blizzard project, and historically speaking, a sequel, spin-off, or continuation of the seminal RTS game of the late ’90s was more under-wraps than most. And if you think the heat for a StarCraft-Next has died down, remember that 3D vid you saw before? That’s from Snowflake Entertainment, buncha fans working on remaking StarCraft using the Warcraft III engine.

You know how it is with the tease, right? They show you a little, just enough to get you interested, then pull the covers back on, leaving you wanting more, begging for more (anyone who’s dated before will know what this writer’s talking about). Because that’s all Bassat said, no one on Earth, except probably for Blizzard, knows whether he meant the still-vapor StarCraft Ghost (potential next-gen console title?), or a future 3D RTS sequel to StarCraft (which would definitely be, or at least begin, on the PC). Or even a StarCraft MMO?

We can make a very accurate prediction, though. Have you ever seen a Zergling rush tear an entire base apart like rabid termites? That’s what StarCraft fans will do to game stores everywhere when a StarCraft-Next is launched. You can bet I’ll be one of them.

Pro-G was at the HMV Oxford Burning Crusade launch party, and they heard Blizzard VP Business Development and International Itzik Ben Bassat say the following. You know what? Let’s make that “Pro-G swears by all that is holy they heard Blizzard VP Bassat say the following”:

I’m a StarCraft player myself and I hope it’s not a decade, and we launched StarCraft in 1998, before I’m standing here again, celebrating the next game in the series.

Kerrigan’s ghost, Bassat! (Whoa, a pun. Kerrigan’s ghost… Kerrigan WAS a Ghost… hehe) If there’s a way to start a riot among the gamers of the late 90’s, that’s one way. Kaplan and LeCraft both have been dropping hints about an under-wraps Blizzard project, and historically speaking, a sequel, spin-off, or continuation of the seminal RTS game of the late ’90s was more under-wraps than most. And if you think the heat for a StarCraft-Next has died down, remember that 3D vid you saw before? That’s from Snowflake Entertainment, buncha fans working on remaking StarCraft using the Warcraft III engine.

You know how it is with the tease, right? They show you a little, just enough to get you interested, then pull the covers back on, leaving you wanting more, begging for more (anyone who’s dated before will know what this writer’s talking about). Because that’s all Bassat said, no one on Earth, except probably for Blizzard, knows whether he meant the still-vapor StarCraft Ghost (potential next-gen console title?), or a future 3D RTS sequel to StarCraft (which would definitely be, or at least begin, on the PC). Or even a StarCraft MMO?

We can make a very accurate prediction, though. Have you ever seen a Zergling rush tear an entire base apart like rabid termites? That’s what StarCraft fans will do to game stores everywhere when a StarCraft-Next is launched. You can bet I’ll be one of them.