Blizzard Hiring For An Open-World Shooter Game

Blizzard is hiring for an unannounced upcoming open-world shooter recreation. A job advert posted on November 13 revealed this, although the requisition does not have too many particulars about what the sport is.

The job ad for the Associate Design Director, Innovation says this particular person would be the “imaginative and prescient holder and proprietor of key strategic improvements” for the upcoming unannounced “open-world shooter recreation.”

The job calls for somebody to assist implement methods which have “proven potential however haven’t but permeated the AAA area.” The profitable candidate will work with Blizzard’s engineering, artwork, and audio groups to assist information the venture from idea to launch. This wording particularly suggests no matter this recreation is, it is perhaps early in improvement.

In accordance with the job itemizing (via VGC), a profitable candidate can count on to earn a minimal annual wage of $124,400, with the potential of reaching $230,300.

This job advert was solely posted this week, however journalist Jason Schreier’s new e book, Play Good: The Rise, Fall, and Way forward for Blizzard Leisure, contained a passage mentioning that a StarCraft shooter is, or was, in development at Blizzard. Whether or not or not this newly posted job advert is related to that’s unknown.

The rumored StarCraft shooter was mentioned to be led by Dan Hay, the previous Ubisoft and Far Cry veteran who joined Blizzard as vice chairman and common supervisor in 2022.

As a part of the iterative nature of recreation improvement, Blizzard cancels about 50% of the games it works on, so no matter new Blizzard shooter is in improvement, it is not assured to launch. In January this yr, Microsoft introduced that Blizzard had canceled its survival game, codenamed Odyssey, with some staffers moving over to an incubation project that was said to be a StarCraft shooter.