Phil Spencer \u201cexcited\u201d to work with Blizzard to bring StarCraft to Xbox BlizzardMicrosoft Head of Gaming Phil Spencer can\u2019t wait to talk to Blizzard about the future of the StarCraft franchise on Xbox. It wasn\u2019t that long ago that StarCraft was the world\u2019s top esport with fans around the world glued to their screens to watch pros compete in Blizzard\u2019s competitive RTS. While StarCraft hasn\u2019t seen a resurgence per se, there has always been potential to expand out of the real-time strategy genre, such as with the infamously canceled StarCraft: Ghost. Now, with Microsoft\u2019s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, Phil Spencer is eyeing a potential return of the popular series. Phil Spencer wants to talk to Blizzard about StarCraft Speaking with Wired, the Microsoft Gaming boss was asked about any plans for the dormant RTS and Phil expressed his desire to talk to Blizzard about the series. Despite making it clear that he can\u2019t make decisions for Blizzard just yet, he expressed a desire to speak to the developers about StarCraft\u2019s future. \u201cNot only StarCraft, but WarCraft, when you think about the heritage of RTS games that we\u2019re talking about here, specifically from Blizzard. And I don\u2019t have any concrete plans today because I can\u2019t really get in and work with the teams,\u201d he explained. \u201cStarCraft was a seminal moment in gaming, right? From an esports perspective, from RTS on console perspective, and from just an RTS storytelling perspective in the genre.\u201d Spencer went on to say he can\u2019t wait to talk about Blizzard\u2019s back catalog and the opportunities that could arise from the acquisition, calling the prospect of doing something with them \u201cexciting.\u201d Even though this doesn\u2019t guarantee a new StarCraft game will be making its way to Xbox or PC, the fact that Spencer seems so invested is a good sign for anyone wanting more space opera action in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Phil Spencer \u201cexcited\u201d to work with Blizzard to bring StarCraft to Xbox BlizzardMicrosoft Head of Gaming Phil Spencer can\u2019t wait to talk to Blizzard about the future of the StarCraft franchise on Xbox. It wasn\u2019t that long ago that StarCraft was the world\u2019s top esport with fans around the world glued to their screens to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}