Xbox boss Phil Spencer said he wanted to talk about the relaunch of the iconic StarCraft series following Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
In January, Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard in a deal worth £ 50 billion. Despite industry merger investigations, Microsoft remains “very, very confident” that the deal will go forward.
And Xbox boss Phil Spencer is already thinking about what he can do with Activision Blizzard’s vast IP catalog. Earlier this week, he confirmed that it wasn’t Microsoft’s “intent” to make Call Of Duty an Xbox exclusive and, in a new interview, Spencer discussed the possibility of reviving the iconic and groundbreaking franchise. StarCraft.
The original StarCraft was released in 1998, while the sequel StarCraft 2: Wings Of Liberty arrived in 2010 and the standalone expansion Legacy Of The Void completed the saga in 2015. A remastered version of the original StarCraft was released in 2017.
Asked by Wired if Xbox has any plans for StarCraft in the future, Spencer said, “The first thing I’d say is that I can’t make any decisions about what’s going to happen to Blizzard, Activision or King. So that’s all kind of talk and thought. about what the opportunity is. “
He went on to talk about Blizzard’s “heritage of real-time strategy games”, including World Of Warcraft, before discussing how “StarCraft was a defining moment in gaming. From an esports perspective, from a strategy game in real time for consoles and real games. -Time strategy narrative in the genre “.
He continued: “I’m thrilled to be able to sit down with the Activision, Blizzard and King teams to talk about the back catalog and the opportunities we might have. So I’ll avoid the question, as well as say it’s not something I can actively work on right now. . But the idea of being able to think about what could happen with those franchises is quite exciting to me, as someone who has spent many hours playing those games. “
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