It's going to be something brand new because, let's face it, when was the last time Blizzard made a new IP? Seriously... when?

DaveKap

Universe of Starcraft... I echo the desire for it to be an FPS MMO game. Like Planetside, but way better... and Starcraftier.

Ramistat

@Saprol:
BlizVision

Spacehog85

@Danin:

Original IP? From Blizzard? They haven't done that since Diablo and The Lost Vikings. I would wager that's a practical impossibility. Even all of Warcraft was completely based on another game. Diablo and The Lost Vikings is about as original as they get, aside from Rock N Roll Racers.

Dennen

I'm going to say Diablo 4, or Starcraft 3. I'm also going to say please, Diablo 4, and please, Starcraft 3. That way, whilst the incontent masses spend the next eight years grumbling about "Blizzard have so much money from *successful game here*, why don't they make a sequel to *other successful game here*!", I can say I got here first and I started the trend.

Yes, let this moment be archived in history. The whining about a lack of sequel to SC2 and D3 began today.

DuctTape

original IP plz

Danin

Lost Vikings vs Capcom would be nice, but would all three Vikings be on screen at once, or will you have to choose one or the other?

Pezdispenser

Am I the only one that feels like World of Diablo would basically be WoW with far less variety?

I don't think Blizz. would go that route.

I could see World of Starcraft, Warcraft IV or, hope beyond hope, a new Lost Vikings.

Dr. Kashik

@Sparx: "Perhaps Diablo III for the regular masses and World of Diablo for Korea."

There, fixed.

CockroachMan

World of StarCraft!

Proto_Man

@alb1221:

JESUS CHRIST PLEASE.

In lieu of a game having a chance, please be WarCraft IV. I've been waiting forever and ignoring WoW for so long.

Ignatius

My bet would be on either a Diablo MMO, or Warcraft IV leading into WoW II (Electric Boogaloo).

As much as I would LOVE for whatever catastrophic events close out the WoW storyline to be influenced by the players I can understand the desire or need to have an independant character driven story lay the groundwork for
WoW II much like Warcraft III did for WoW.

The same goes for a Diablo MMO, whatever events unfold in the core game and it's inevitable expansion pack could very well lead into a cross faction war for Sanctuary allowing Blizzard to keep the familiar "Alliance V. Horde" aspect that's done them so well.

The only reason I'm skeptical about the idea of a starcraft MMO is simple that everyone assumes and wants it to have cross faction play but it's simply not likely or feasible to do so.

Any Human, Orc, Tauren, Night Elf, Blood Elf etc...can wear a Green Iron chestpiece.
The same could not be said for equipment and armor for the Terrans and Zerg.
I guess it depends on what new story and character developments come out of Starcraft II.

Diddy_Mao

Star-war craft: Diablo's lost roll.
Why the F#%$# so many ppl want rock & roll racing back? I mean... come on! Who the f#$% cares about this game anyway.
Now about lost vikings.
The 2d aspect of the game made it the game it is today..
There is absolutely NO chance at all that blizzard will release a 2d platform... A possible 3d version would change the game completely and i don't think they want to harm the name of such a memorable franchise.

klainmaingr

@Luke Plunkett: I thought I was the only person who liked the Lands of Lore series! Lands of Lore IV is just ahead of Shemnue 3 and a sequel to Return to Krondor for obscure games I want to get sequels but probably won't.

Krondonian

Perhaps Diablo III for the regular masses and World of Diablo for the hardest of the hardcore.

Sparx

Or better yet, they bought the video game rights too World of Whorecraft.

Gentlemen, prepare your joysticks.

TaggarT6

I would kill for a Lost Vikings game. So epic. And imagine how bad ass that game would be on co-op. Hellz yeah.

Sonic_and_Tails

I've got my money on new ip. Maybe something with superheroes.

TaggarT6

Rock'n'Roll Racing 2! FUCK YEAH!

or Lost Vikings 3!

I would be happy with any of those.. but I doubt they will make it.. so, I'm betting that it's something new. And knowing Blizzard, I would be happy with that too :P

CockroachMan

The unannounced project is the next gen MMO

mx5

@Krondonian: Oh, man. That'd be AWESOME.

Luke Plunkett

Solar System of Warcraft! It's WoW, but bigger!

Or, y'know, a new Blackthorne would be the sex too...

ShaggE

I'm thinking Space of Starcraft. it only makes sense, neat initials, warcraft, W.o.W. Space of Starcraft S.o.S. - no relation to rihanna.

Savior

World of Starcraft

CaptainFreakingAmazing

what about LOST Vikings? Not Lost Vikings, but LOST Vikings. Then it'd have a sequel in which nothing happens through it's 22 levels

pikachumariachi

Lands of Lore IV. You heard it here first.

Krondonian

@suya123:

That's probably not far off. Dollars to donuts its something for the consoles.

As much as I'd love WC4, that's not very likely with SC2 coming. In fact, if you love Blizzard RTSs, I'd start loving Starcraft, if I were you. I don't think WC4 will ever happen.

Laxcat

@Saprol: Not even. World of Diablo. ;)

Americo

next gen mmo (as they said they were working on).

There ain't much speculation to do, imo. :)

QC8472

@Does Not Equal: Yeah, Starcraft: Ghost, if executed well, could be the best action stealth game this generation. I'm saying this because Blizzard makes the best games of the genres they touch, and I'm ignoring the existance of MGS4

pikachumariachi

Oh lord of videogames let it be a Lost Vikings game!

(俗・ ) Grey Gecko

It just has to be World of Starcraft. Everybody knows we need MMO Zergling Rushes. DON'T DISAPPOINT ME, ACTIBLIZION. (Has anybody made a cool abbreviation for them yet? Their name's so long. T_T)

Saprol

I'd be sorely disappointed if it's not a new franchise.

Voteforme2020

@D-Sovereignty: If they announce Warcraft IV, I'll kill someone to get at this game early.

Amazon_Chris

i hope it's a ds game.

thejakeman: visit my site!

i wouldn't refuse a new IP

but isn't that the new mmo that they were hiring for ? it just isn't announced yet

waza

i'm going to place my bets on Lost Vikings: fluffy bunny adventure on pony island.

sloan

WoW 2! The graphics will try for a more realistic feel. And by realistic I mean ugly, bloated, and disgusting to look at.

Kanik

It's gotta be Black Thorn.....

Valiant Goat

Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi MMO. Come on Blizz, you can do it!

AngelMayLaugh

World of Diablo Craft 3.

Jtn

Blizzard VS ARKSYS. That would be awesome! Arthas Vs Sol? Illiden(sp?) Vs Coyori? Sign me up!

Flowen

Warcraft 4 would also be good :x

Murderdolls

It's a mmo, its obviously going to be a starcraft mmo or diablo mmo.

The way they built up that diablo universe on their website for Diablo 3 kind of hints at a bigger more established world then what was there.

Murdoc

Blackthorne

Nothing else will satisfy me.

silkylove

@alb1221: YES THIS

Murderdolls

Starcraft MMOFPS, please!

alb1221

@drakino: World of Starcraft!

kadaj_sama

Erik the Swift needs a comeback...

QualityJeverage

warcraft 4?

deathtastic

If they announce Warcraft IV the world is going to implode.

D-Sovereignty

Rock n Roll Racing 2 would be nice.

solar_tf

The Lost Vikings' Striking Biking Adventure

frostcircus

@suya123: PLEASE NO! Go back to the fires of hell you damned abomination of a Starcraft game! LOL

Candlejack

It's an MMO. You can verify this by going to [www.blizzard.com] . Plenty of openings for a "Next-gen MMO", and they've had positions open for it for well over a year now.

drakino

I still want StarCraft: Ghost in its original vision. The idea of sniping marines through their open visors while hanging from a pipe, or standing a hundred yards from an Overlord going "bleaurgh" was too tempting.

Does Not Equal

Pleas be something new.

Guild_Navigator

Yes, Warcraft IV please.

xiLenT

Warcraft IV please.

Please?

CCCombobreaker

Starcraft Ghost is back alive?!

suya123

I really hope they use the money gained from highly successful past and develop something new. There's lots of gaps in their game offerings and while I'd love anything with Diablo and MMO I hope to God it's not this.

Please be some unique, innovative Blizzard style Portal or something just from left field...

pcypert

is blizzard planning on abducting all players to themselves?

IroKuMata

BlizzardVisions' Black World of Lost Rock 'n Roll Crafts?

TurtleSoup

Kojima has joined Blizzard and is making a sequel to his first videogame ever - hence the Penguin.

World of Penguin Gear: The Ice of the Alliance.

Black-Dog-Howls

No wait! Dungeon Keeper 3. They bought the rights from EA!

If only. If only...

Ghede

Lost Vikings DS. With wi-fi multiplayer.

Ghede

Fingers crossed Warcraft IV

french_fries101

Next announcement?: WARCRAFT IN SPACE. About time.

Also: An MMOFPS World of Starcraft would be amazing, however unlikely. Oh, Planetside... *swoon*

Yenzilla

Starcraft 3. You heard it here first.

kumuasata

There will be no World of Diablo simply becouse it allready has a multiplayer system embedded which works quite well. So making a MMO out of it whould be kind of redundant.

A Starcraft MMO, again, is an interesting concept, but i think they'll wait till SC2 to verify the target-base is still there.

As for Starcraft: Ghost... i'd so want it.

Cosmitz

Is it Super gay hello kitty barbie and ken seasame street pussy polly pocket wimpy kiddy gay stupid brothers brawl?

No, wait... that's already been released.

KafkaTamura

@A8acus:

World of Warcraft isn't holding the attention of the entire gaming audience. While its numbers are large, they are not covering the extreme majority.

If a Starcraft Online was released as a MMOFPSRPG for example, that would gather a lot of people to it that otherwisely wouldn't care about Blizzards foray into MMO developments. On top of that, Blizzard tends to become very stale with their MMO development. Being months upon months before anything new other than a few new items are added in. That's what Warcraft is started to suffer from right now. A lot of players wanting to look to another game because they are sick of playing fantasy based characters, or sick of Warcraft entirely due to the lack of things to do.

Dennen

Something new would be cool, but I'm REALLY REALLY hoping for Starcraft Ghost to come back to the table. Not that that would count as an unannounced game, but seriously. I got to play it on system link Xbox a couple years back at a GameStop managers conference. All we were able to use were Terran and it was still fricken awesome. Man, I hope they are at work on that one.

fearing

I think they are going to do a WoW overhaul. There is no reason to create a competing product. I think "World of Diablo" and "World of Starcraft" are completely out of the picture - at least for now.

A8acus

@DaveKap:

1998. Starcraft. Blizzard has dug themselves into a rut by severely overhyping their own trinity of games. While that will make the company financially successful for years to come *since it takes them forever to actually release a game*, it was also bad in that Starcraft can now be compared to Warcraft in storyline. Creativity within Blizzard is going down the drain, while the wait between releases is becoming rougher with the concept of Quality over Quantity.

The problem with the latter is that it takes Blizzard roughly twice as long as it takes any other multi million developer to complete a project. Why that is, I don't know. They say that it's for quality. Problem is that I have seen plenty of absolutely great games that take half as much time to develop from start to finish.

Blizzard will say things such as "Concepts and designs for The Burning Crusade were in development before we released World of Warcraft". While that might seem impressive to many, that only tells me that it took them over 4 years to develop 1 cinematic, 5 of 6 Areas and a lack of Illidan, much less his entire Black Temple. 4 years for that is monstrously slow. An armless orangutan could travel through the desert faster than Blizzard makes games.

Dennen

It would be interesting to see another Rock N' Roll Racing game. I had a lot of fun with that during my snes days.

Maybe Blizzard should do another superman game. They seem to be the only one to make a good superman game. The Death and Return of Superman.

Stevetrop

This three pillar system is getting ridiculous. Get some new IPs for christ's sake. They can still be fantasy oriented if you really want. Just give me some new universes.

marmidukestank

@KafkaTamura: I don't think you used enough harsh language in that comment. How about calling it (whatever the hell 'it' is) gay a few more times?

sarcasmOD

It should be one of two, highly unbeliveable things;

A: RPM Racing 2
or
B: A brand new series.

Kenofthedead

@Mohican:

I am actually still a player in WoW. Thousands for you to do, but not for others. I just realize there is a flaw in the game. I too have been playing it since release.

Dennen

@Dennen: lol another jaded ex-wow player. There are a thousand things left to do in wow and I've been playing it casually since release.

Mohican

Blackthorne please. I really want to see Blizzard take a total left turn from their usual playing grounds.

PsycheE

Ghost with current gen graphics would be awesome. So VERY awesome.

and screw MMOs... :( If it's an MMO or MMO related then I will have to pass again. (... well it's Blizzard, so I will at least try it)

MetaKz

my guess

three words

World of Starcraft

sm_twinz

Please be an original ip

Kounji

Ok I am calling this. I was so so correct in what the ice image was, down to details, (my posts are archived).
It is a console action RPG

JASONSPAZ

Considering they've been looking to higher people to develop a next-gen MMO I'm going to say a Lost Vikings MMO. :P Yeah baby!

Replica23

Hasn't the CEO at Activision already said, "We'd love to do a Call of Duty MMO..."

Wouldn't it be cool if Blizzard did the back-end work and Infinity Ward designed the gameplay?

megabyte

its their next gen MMO which will be their new IP. My bet it will be like Age of Conan, Dark and gritty to appeal tot he older audience. Or it could be a SC MMO.

Majpain007

Please be starcraft ghost for the PC with next-gen graphics.
*puppy eyes*

pulyx

Does it have to be a Blizzard property? Maybe it's something from Activision. Mechwarrior?

aeonite

Better not be a fucking MMO.

WC4, SC: Ghost, or the next Lost Vikings.

ANY of those would be absolutely insanely positively end-of-the-world awesome.

Also, I really think WC4 should be an RTS that completely ignores WoW (as in making WoW not canon) because really, 40 random adventurers (or whatever the raid size is) taking out Illidan, Kael'thas, Kel'Thuzad etc.? That makes no sense. At all.

But still, Starcraft Ghost, or WC4 being announced close to Diablo 3? The internets would implode and explode. At the same time.

LastFace

Sorry guys, but it won't be Warcraft IV. A) It is way to early for a sequel - minimum requirment is 10 years :D and B) All the job postings on Blizzard have been for a Next-Gen MMO. My guess...World of Starcraft

Smash88

@RealmRPGer: Also, you're likely not going to hear about it until WotLK ships.

RealmRPGer

It's WoW 2, mmmkay?

Blizzard has been known to hint that WotLK could be the last expansion for WoW. Also, WoW is becoming "bloated" with all the new content that DOES get added with each new expansion.

Blizzard wants to start fresh, redesign some of the classes from the ground up, and create a world more consistent with their current design direction.

RealmRPGer

I actually would really like a next-gen Lost Vikings for the consoles with online co-op. But it's probably another mmo unfortunately since they're looking for people to make one. I'm not a huge fan of mmos.

kojirodensetsu

I hope it's StarCraft Ghost. When it's done, it should be available for PS3, 360, PC and Mac. Wii version? I don't know. But that way, the console gamers what they want, Blizzard's faithful on computers get what they want and Blizzard makes a ton of money in the process.

cervantes240

Lost Vikings would be great to hear.

Maybe their first game on Live??? New or Old version would work.

yashichi8bit

Next-gen MMO:

[www.shacknews.com]

I'm thinking World of Starcraft - only because I am doubtful that they would sink a ton of money into a next gen MMO that wasn't a proven brand. Also - I want it to be.

Trencher-1

@Ghede: I WOULD SO DIG THAT.

Akaraxle

Lost Viking, Blackthorne and Rock'n'Roll racing they may not be, but im still hoping for Starcraft Ghost!

(And please, Wii version included, ok?)

Shiryu

Warcraft IV = WoW so that can't be it. probably lost vikings or some starcraft game like World of starcraft or starcraft ghost or -hoefully- lost vikings vs capcom as previously mentioned. :D

eskimo-bob

Blackthorne remake would awesome, but I doubt that they will make that before releasing Starcraft ghost.

Rakotto

Unfortunately, I hope Blizzard don't continue with this vein of EA-like sequel churning. I'd really like to see some original content from them, not just variation on their three historical game worlds.

Of course, I'd never believe this might have anything to do with the loss of all of the people within Blizzard that wrote the original content, rather than mutating existing information.

Well, aside from Chris Metzen, but that guy is an artwork Herculean. ;)

Shockeh

Warcraft Adventures!

Freduardo

Blizzard, robbing one soul at a time. WoTLK/SC2/D3 I WILL NOT SEE SUNLIGHT ;[

NattyIce

Count me among the "World of Starcraft" hopefuls! :)

ビッグ ボス

Damn, Blizzard ain't taking no breaks recently.

I'd like to see a new IP personally. WC4 would be cool, but with SC2 on the way I can wait. I'd rather it not be a new MMO though they could be heading that way. Given Blizzard's hush-hush mentality, we probably won't know until the next WWI.

deadjesterx

@kadaj_sama: I believe Worlds of Starcraft would be more appropriate.

God I only hope... For once my southern accent wouldn't be poked fun at I'd just be in character. hehe.

calibretto23

I can only see Starcraft MMO working if everyone is forced to be Terran. 1on1 PVP: Zerglings are too weak and Protoss too strong.

maybe the zerg player represents an entire BROOD that grows larger as he/she levels?

maybe the Protoss is an unlockable lvl50+ race you unlock like Deathknight.

rainofwalrus

My bet on a new IP. However, if it sucks, nobody here will never hear of it since it won't goes out to public.
Blizzard is mastering MMORPG, action RPGs and RTS. Could it goes in the overcrowded FPS market ? A comeback in the action-puzzle or racing genre. Why not ? Other area of the MMO are also underexploited.
If you ask me, I'm pretty sure that this other title isn't related to Diablo/Warcraft/Starcraft.

slimky

GIVE US...

ROCK'N ROLL RACING 2!

PPleeaaase!!!

Mlata

Diablocraft. Sorceress rush!

Bravepower

I think they're finally ready for a new franchise... I wonder what it's going to be.

Max Freak

@Dennen:
Your point being ??? It takes them twice as long time as any other company to develop games ? Well fine by me. If their games, such as SC WC3 D3 WOW can be played by millions 5-6 years after the release Id gladly give them even more time to develop future projects.
They did not come up with any new IP recently ?
Well why would they if a game they create lasts for a decade ?
That is beside the point as they just indicated they are indeed en route to create a new IP.

Blizzard is by far the most respected PC game company there is at the moment (not anything I made up or not anything that has been measured by anyone)
Just judging from the amount of fanboy hype, troll hype, game press coverage, mainstream press coverage, 3rd or 4rth party programs, tools, songs fanboystuff etc.

Aeryss

@rainofwalrus: You must bear in mind that most WoW classes are based on Warcraft 3's Hero classes, which are all comparable, base soldiers of each army weren't always comparable in might but hero classes were intended to be.

I Know starcraft didn't have hero classes, but I suppose World (Or Universe) of starcraft could well just have a selection of "hero" classes. Though to be honest, I';d rather if Blizzard DID do a starcraft MMO that it wasn't a WoW clone set in the starcraft universe, It should play differently.

ohare

I'd kill for Starcraft: Ghost :D or Warcraft IV (but I really hope they just count WoW to be a big amount of "nothing but an alternate dimension" if so)

Viciouschan

A starcraft MMO FPS sounds good, but they'd have to create a ton of new stuff to make it deep and appealing day after day after day. Just to list the guns that they could use that already exist in the Terran arsenal, you have the 1) marine rifle, 2) sniper rifle, 3) fire bat flamer even though it looks like they're gone, and then... What? Adding vehicles would be cool, but 3 guns is not enough.

...Or is it? For example, MGS4 has tons of weapons, and since there are really maybe 6 or so classes, how many weapons would really be needed? Just something to think about :)

mistake