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A new StarCraft game is still on the table at Blizzard Entertainment, but it may not play anything like what fans of the sci-fi franchise have been accustomed to. Mike Ybarra, Blizzard President, has told Bloomberg (alternate link) in a new interview concerning his company's "more independent future under Xbox" that while the StarCraft franchise may very well return after having gone missing for years, the next game in the series, if it does see the light of day, could be in "a different genre altogether." According to Ybarra, this is because most of the Blizzard staff who had experience developing real-time strategy games have already left the company, having jumped ship during Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick's reign. Xbox head Phil Spencer, who showed up at BlizzCon 2023's Opening Ceremony last week, has indicated that he wants Blizzard to be more like the independent studio it once was.
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