Blizzard is hiring new people. The goal seems clear: a mobile game. Will it be Overwatch or StarCraft?
Mobile gaming is still a rapidly growing market. No wonder, with smartphones, tablets, and all the other devices that we always carry around with us. Blizzard has only developed a single game for this area so far – Hearthstone.
But now the game developer is ramping up and has published new job postings. They are looking for additional employees for the development of mobile games. The workplace would be the “Incubation Department” – basically the department where new core ideas and concepts for games are devised before they go into development.
The job descriptions are for “developers who will contribute to Blizzard’s efforts in mobile gaming” while “developing tools that ‘designers and artists’ can use.”
Which game this pertains to is still completely unclear. Only the statement from Frank Pearce gives a hint, who said in February that “Overwatch and StarCraft could potentially lend themselves to mobile games.”
Apart from the new positions, there are also many restructurings within Blizzard. Major developers are being pulled from projects and put into the “new secret projects”.
Blizzard has many irons in the fire
We already know that Blizzard has also hired employees for an “yet-to-be-announced first-person game” and hope to receive the first information about it later this year. Whether this is related to the mobile game is still unclear.
Furthermore, the Diablo team has been significantly expanded, which leads many fans to hope that they are already working on a Diablo 4 – or even a mix of Diablo/shooter, meaning a Diablo from a first-person perspective.
You can get more information about Blizzard’s secret projects here.
