The team had been working on it for two years, Schreier says, and the cancellation came as something of a surprise.

It was clearly not a game close to finished. Kotaku's Jason Schreier, the man with spies up his sleeve, says that 'The team had built prototypes in which the player, as a Terran marine, could gun down Zerg aliens, and there were plans to experiment with playable Zerg as well.' Note that he says 'prototypes' and 'experiments'. The StarCraft FPS, supposedly codenamed Ares, is largely a mystery.

Kotaku's rumours say the StarCraft FPS gang aren't being laid off, rather put to work on Diablo 4 or Overwatch 2 instead. Cancelling unannounced games is fairly standard for Blizzard if they don't think it's working out and, without confirming anything, the studio hint that's the case here. One secret source told Kotaku that the game was a bit 'like Battlefield in the StarCraft universe' though we may never see or know much more about it.

A team at Blizzard had been working on a first-person shooter set in the world of their StarCraft real-time strategy games, the rumour mill says, but it's recently been cancelled.

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