Nexon takes on development – research snipers

After a long break, Starcraft could soon return. Developer Nexon has prevailed against well -known competitors and can now freely decide on the genre. It is therefore not currently clear if the new title maintains the traditional format of strategy.

New life for Starcraft Universe

Blizzard Starcraft’s legendary exclusivity can soon celebrate its return. After an intense offer process, South Korean NEXON Game developer has secured the right to develop a new Starcraft game. At the same time, the company receives sales rights for Overwatch Mobile in Korea and Japan. Nexon prevailed against renowned Korean competitors such as Soft and Netmarble. The tendering process began in the fourth quarter of last year. Blizzard offered interested companies a package that included development rights for a new Starcraft game and regional sales rights for Overwatch Mobile.

It is worth noting that Blizzard has not specified any genre restrictions on the new Starcraft-Nexon game game, so it is free to go beyond the traditional real-time strategy format. Like the Korean intelligence service MTN reported (via VG247), the tendering process was particularly competitive because Starcraft enjoys a special status in Korea. The game laid the cornerstone for the first major electronic sports scene and is still actively played today. Even Starcraft: Brood, The Classic since 1998, is still very popular in Korea.

Starcraft’s latest big edition was Remaster of the original game in 2017. Fans have been waiting for new content from the popular universe of scientific fiction since then. Freedom in the choice of genre can mean that Nexon chooses a completely new approach to the brand – perhaps even an application of the once planned, but never published Starcraft: Ghost. Starcraft has had a random history. The original appeared in 1998 and revolutionized the genre of real -time strategy with its asymmetric game pattern, in which three completely different races -therrener, Zerg and protoss -conquer against each other.

Starcraft 2 successor was published in three episodes: Wings of Liberty (2010), Heart of the Swarm (2013) and Legacy of the Void (2015). Since then, Blizzard has focused mainly on content updates and balance sheets. Overwatch Mobile, which is reported internally in Blizzard as “Overwatch 3”, is a MOBA game (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) for mobile platforms. Blizzard takes on development here, while Nexon will be responsible for sales in Korea and Japan.