Is Blizzard gettin' serious about next-gen consoles?
by Ross Miller 
on Jul 6th 2006 5:55PM
Don't get too excited just yet, but Blizzard has just posted a new job listing for a Senior Producer with "extensive firsthand experience with Blizzard games" who has recently made and shipped a AAA title for a current generation console. However, it is the optional skills that has the internet fluttering:
- Experience in writing software.
- Localization experience on a shipped console title.
- Xbox 360, PS3, or Wii production experience.
The latter inclusion is not really valid yet (anyone developing for PS3 or Wii have, obviously, not finished producing their next-generation game) and was likely added to keep the job listing fresh in a few months, but it does reveal Blizzard's intentions,
StarCraft: Ghost notwithstanding, to rejoin the console market.
We have heard mutterings before, about this time last year, of Blizzard's interest in a
DS version of StarCraft ... and have heard nothing of it since. Given Blizzard's reticence and long development times, it would likely be a couple of years before we heard anything. Aside from tweaking
World of Warcraft and finalizing the expansion pack, do we have any idea what Blizzard is up to?
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