Some people don’t like it when their food touches on a plate. Others don’t care. And others stack food servings on top of one another because they see restaurants doing it constantly. We bring this up because this story is going to have several Blizzard games against one another in the same article, namely Overwatch 2, StarCraft 2, and Hearthstone. So let’s dig in and clean up this plate.
Jason Schreier’s upcoming tell-all book isn’t only about allegations of corporate dysfunction; it also had a little tidbit about an in-development StarCraft shooter. The project is reportedly being helmed by Far Cry producer and director Dan Hay, but as Schreier was quick to point out during an IGN podcast, it’s unclear whether the project is still alive:
“This is Blizzard after all. Their history with StarCraft shooters is not good. Yes, that is a project that as far as I know is in development, or at least as of the time that I wrote this book was in development. They are working on a StarCraft shooter, StarCraft is not dead at Blizzard.”
Is there a Venn diagram intersection between fans of Overwatch 2 and the anime My Hero Academia? That’s hard to say, but the shooter has debuted new legendary skins that are going up for sale soon that dress up heroes as characters from the series. So if you really want Tracer to look like Deku or Reinhart to look like All Might, that is going to be a thing from October 17th trough the 30th.
Finally, Hearthstone is back to making card tweaks in its latest patch, this time with a focus on battlegrounds mode that seeks to make trinkets cheaper, adjust outlier minion power, and buff underperforming heroes. The update also makes a major tweak to the Big Spell Mage card from the latest mini-set in order to address its dominance in play, and the patch notes confirm that twist mode will come back in December.
