14 DAY TRIAL // Blizzard Entertainment has put up a set of job recruitment announcements on its official career portal page that seek to attract software engineers for a new video game project, which has not been officially announced and does not seem to have a name yet.
The ads say Blizzard Entertainment is “on the hunt for a creatively minded and talented individual to serve as tools engineer for its newest game team.”
There are no hard details given about the project, when it might be announced and when it might be launched.
On the career portal, the new jobs are clearly separated from those linked to the “Next-Gen MMO,” better known to the gaming public as Titan.
At the moment Blizzard is working on Diablo III, which was supposed to be finally launched during 2011, but now it seems that it might be pushed back into 2012, but also on a slew of other projects.
Starcraft II, which launched with very good reviews and strong sales numbers during the summer of 2010, is set to get two new expansion, Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void, but a leaked development schedule from Blizzard also mentioned a Phoenix project linked to the Starcraft universe, which could be somewhat similar to the abandoned Ghost third-person action game.
At least two more expansions for the World of Warcraft MMO were mentioned in a China leaked road maps, but they are not wholly separate projects so the new ads are probably not linked to them.
Blizzard is usually pretty tight lipped when it comes to the games it is working on and will only talk about them officially when the development is pretty advanced and the basics of the experience is nailed down.
One exception is the Titan MMO project, which Blizzard has begun mentioning occasionally after a number of rumors talked about it.