The creators of Warcraft are starting a brand new franchise unlike anything they’ve done before, but is a Blizzard shooter really a good idea?
As our two interviewees point out it’s 17 years since Blizzard created a brand new IP (intellectual property). Given the enormous success of Wacraft, Starcraft, Diablo, and all their spin-offs that’s not a criticism, but it does mean that from the second it was announced first person shooter Overwatch has risked an almost stifling weight of expectation.
That announcement came last November and since then relatively little has been seen of Overwatch in public. It wasn’t playable at Gamescom last month,… Read the full story