As if the news of Blizzard’s online MMORPG WoW and its expansion The Burning Crusade comprising 54 percent of the nearly $1 billion revenue that online gaming in the United States has generated in the past year wasn’t enough, it seems the masters of finger-crack are ready to stun the world once more with a new title. Lingering rumour mills suggested this could be a sequel to the ubquitously popular Starcraft, which was fuelled even further when analysts pointed out the game being unveiled at the Worldwide Invitational on May 19 in Korea (here, learning how to play Starcraft usually comes second to learning how to walk apparently). Realists called the news to be bogus and instead predicted this to be the ground for the announcement of the console version of its best-selling online game.

The truth? Both are wrong. First came the the news that Blizzard Entertainment was looking for a lead tools programmer, lead technical artist and lead engine programmer, the purpose for recruitment being work on a new MMO game that would utilize new technologies and techniques (which fuelled the Starcraft 2 rumour fire). However, just a few days ago, Blizzard announced that it would be working on a brand-new title and that too for the PC. The Starcraft sequel hopes remained simply that; to quote a rep:

“We have a very strong connection with the characters and settings of StarCraft, and we do plan to revisit that universe at some point in the future, but we don’t have anything new to announce in that regard at present.”

As for what exactly is in store for Blizzard fans on May 19 is any addict’s (very wild and excessively hopeful) guess.

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