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StarCraft: Ghost has never been officially cancelled

When asked if long-dormant StarCraft spin-off might ever be released, Blizzard says "maybe."

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Long-dormant third-person adventure spin-off StarCraft: Ghost has never been formally cancelled, Blizzard has reiterated.

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Diablo III senior designer Matthew Burger has clarified the status of StarCraft: Ghost to Official PlayStation Magazine UK. When asked if the game was still in active development, Burger said "it’s on hold. It has never been cancelled."

When asked if StarCraft: Ghost might one day be released, Burger said "maybe."

StarCraft: Ghost was one of Blizzard's first attempts to break into console gaming at the turn of the century. The spin-off was announced for Xbox, PlayStation 2, and GameCube in 2002, with development duties handed to Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified developer nStigate Games (nee Nihilistic Software). Development changed hands in 2004 to Swingin' Ape Studios, which was bought by Blizzard in 2005. StarCraft: Ghost was then put on hold in 2006.

StarCraft: Ghost's protagonist, Nova, has appeared in both Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty and Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm.

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They'll have to completely start over. I don't plan on ever seeing SC: Ghost, ever.

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I've been waitin for this for MOST of my life. So you'll understand if I ain't exactly holding my breath for ya, Blizzard. Don't get me wrong, I still love ya, but yes, you are officially the slowest-ass company in the world.

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I hope they never make this, i really dont

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this is game is the reason I bought a PS2 and moved into the console culture. Maybe if Diablo III does well enough on console Blizzard will return to this game.

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@digital_reaver Moved into the console culture? Sorry for your loss...

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Just hope it doesn't turn into another duke nukem forever. *crosses fingers*

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This isn't news, it's the same line we've been getting. Every year there's that one guy at the Starcraft panel at Blizzcon asking about Ghost, and every year it's the same coy answer: "it's not cancelled", "maybe...someday...if you're good". Just because the quote is now in PlayStation Magazine or in GameSpot's news feed doesn't mean anything has changed. At best it's years away. So everyone needs to chill out until they actually announce something...THEN we can start with the "Blizzard games are in the crapper", "Duke Nukem Forever: Ghost", ect.

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@Muradin_2 Broseph Blizzard games have been in the crapper for at least the past 10 years, I'm not sure what rock you live under.

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Well, at least they got a cool character out of it. Nova's a nice addition to Starcraft lore.

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Could be done as a SC2 MOD Campaign

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Duke Nukem Forever Syndrome all over again. I hate it with passion when developers don't give a clear answer after all this time. Either it is scheduled for released or it isn't, there is no "maybe" Dear Mr. Burger, GFY!

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blizz is to first person shooters what EA is to quality football games.

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@fredwv non-existant?

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Damnit Blizzard, with games like Starcraft, Warcraft III, Diablo 2, and vanilla WoW, you had me willing to buy anything you ever put out. And then you had to come along and release the terror that was Diablo 3...


I'd still be very interested in this honestly, I love my stealth action games, but needless to say I'm much more dubious about products Blizz puts out these days.

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PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE, I want this game so bad!!!!

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Can't wait for BlizzCon 2013.

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I don't care. Blizzard turned into a 'broader appeal' company a few years ago, their games are meant to appease the most common denominator now.

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Who cares. Below is the game they should finish!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ6tg1Id6-c

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@KingofCabal Never seen this before. Looks great!

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@KingofCabal hah. i remember playing that

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I remember the preview vid for this game with the beyond the dark portal expansion for WCII... BLACKMORE!!!!!

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hoo - ....meh. id like to get excited about this, but my interest in and hype about this game died many moons ago. way too little way too late.

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Duke Nukem: Ghost

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Oh, get off it already.

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I would have loved this so much for my PS2.

Now I don't care.

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Starcraft Ghost - Thanks to the new always online feature of the new Xbox, when you're cloaked, if you lose internet connection your cloaking turns off and a big target appears on you.

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I have the Noval it was originally supposed to star Kerrigan but decided to create a new character on account that "Kerrigans story had already been told" and created Nova and now Noras story has been told in a novel and continued in Starcraft 2. Just let this die already. No one in their right mind wants to buy a game thats been in development for more then four years.

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@hatieshorrer SC2 was in development for more than 4 years. BF3 was as well.


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I stand corrected their are two games that were in development for more then four years that are exempt to this. However given all the delays and scraping of date to start over Im convinced that if this game was released it would be a hot mess.

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@hatieshorrer you have no idea how long games can regularly be in development. Quit while you're not so far behind.

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lol Oh wow, I remember this. I also remember pretty pretty bummed when I found out it wasn't going to release.

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Goddamit, and I sold my Xbox 1 as well!


Well now I have to go buy one off ebay.

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@Dragon_Nexus lol are you serious? They're not making an Xbox1 game.

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@ShimmeringSword @Dragon_Nexus Thaaaaaaaaaat's the joke.

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Oh god not this again...

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Will players care?

Maybe.

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Starcraft Ghost Forever

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Bring on the "AlwaysOnline : The Action House Ghost" .... meh nevermind

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Auction House 4?

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toss that game. it will just be a sub par stealth game any way.

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-_- that is all

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Ahh, the annual “StarCraft Ghost is not cancelled” announcement. I knew something was missing this year. It’s officially spring now, people! Start cleaning those attics and clearing out those garages, because like Punxsutawney Phil seeing its own shadow every Groundhog’s Day, Blizzard has reminded us again that we’ll be getting StarCraft Ghost someday, sometime, in some form!

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Blizzard will release SC: Ghost as a lead-in to when they release SC3 in July, 2137. Just sayin... this game will no longer by "sci-fi" but instead be a "modern shooter" by the time anyone plays it.

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There is no such things as maybe Blizzard, DO IT!

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It will get fukked over by Activision anyway

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This article reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziwcS0qzUYI

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Better let the project die. Chris Metzen will surely destroy more the Starcraft lore with Ghost.

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Blizzard not giving a straight answer? Big surprise. How Blizzard of them.

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Why not just say "not right now?" We don't need another Duke Nukem Forever.

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