Blizzard's Pardo confirms next game as new MMO

Posted Jul 4th 2008 10:00PM by Samuel Axon
Filed under: Biz, Interviews, MMO

German site OnlineWelten spoke with Blizzard Senior VP Rob Pardo at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational last week. There was a lot of imprecise pondering about what it is that makes Blizzard so successful, but there was one specific tidbit that stood out in the interview.

OnlineWelten referenced some job adverts posted on Blizzard's company website -- adverts for jobs in a team working on a "Next-Gen MMO." Then came the question: is Diablo 3 the Next-Gen MMO? "No, it's obviously not, since it's not an MMO," said Pardo. "We have another development team ... there's still an uknown project."

So, just in case you were wondering, the Next-Gen MMO is still on. But we don't know a damned thing about it. We even once assumed that it was the project codenamed Hydra, but we recently discovered that Hydra was Diablo 3. So ... Galaxy of StarCraft? Sit tight.

[Via Shacknews]

Tags: blizzard, blizzard-worldwide-invitational, diablo-3, diablo-iii, galaxy-of-starcraft, hydra, interview, next-gen-mmo, onlinewelten, rob-pardo, universe-of-starcraft, world-of-starcraft, wwi08

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Coming in 2012!Posted at 9:43PM on Jul 5th 2008 by xtremuuuu

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