Published Sep 16, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
During BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard went ahead and boldly teased two projects that are still in development and still roughly minimum 3 years in the future. The goal behind that was to let the world know that Blizzard has a strong footing and that StarCraft and Diablo 5 will be rolled out just in time. In a world where Rockstar is constantly extending the release date for GTA 6 and CD Projekt Red did the same with Cyberpunk 2077 back in 2020, that sort of commitment can genuinely be comforting.
During the opening ceremony, StarCraft developer Dan Hay went on to reveal that the game would be released sometime in 2030. It was also unveiled that instead of being a real-time strategy title, the 2030 StarCraft game will be an open-world shooter. As per GameRant, then came a surprising tease of Diablo 5, which is a good straw for fans to hold onto ahead of Diablo 4 rolling out its ninth playable class, the Amazon, in early 2027.
During an interview with Bloomberg, Blizzard’s president **Johanna Faries **insinuated that the studio is focused on shipping big releases on time. She specifically added that they have “all hands on deck to set those projects up for success.” Historically, however, that’s not been the case. In fact, Blizzard has followed a strict policy of “**it’s done when it’s done,” **and they rarely announce specific release years or windows for their games until the projects are very close to being finished. She further expressed her confidence in the Studio’s aims in the following words:
“We’re a Blizzard that’s going to ship, and ship big, and ship on time, and all hands on deck to set those projects up for success. We want to convey confidence in some of our biggest bets coming forward.”
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
StarCraft: Ghost was announced way back in 2002 as a third-person action game before being indefinitely postponed and eventually treated as cancelled. Then Blizzard developed another StarCraft FPS, codenamed Ares, for roughly two years before cancelling it in 2019 so resources could move toward Diablo IV and Overwatch 2. That prototype was reportedly envisioned as something like Battlefield in the *StarCraft *universe, with players controlling a Terran Marine against the Zerg.
It’s also important to note here that Blizzard showed no StarCraft gameplay at BlizzCon, and the video shown was a cinematic. Platforms, precise gameplay systems, exact camera perspective, and many core details remain undisclosed for now.
*StarCraft *is being planned for a release in Spring 2030, and Diablo 5 is being shipped for Spring 2029. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.