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[Staff 1,502]

Blizzard today revealed they are working on a brand-new survival game for PC and console!

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Blizzard is embarking on our next quest. We are going on a journey to a whole new universe, home to a brand-new survival game for PC and console. A place full of heroes we have yet to meet, stories yet to be told, and adventures yet to be lived. A vast realm of possibility, waiting to be explored.

Every story needs a teller. And every world needs builders. What if that could be you?

For thirty years, Blizzard has been creating universes for millions of players around the globe. This requires a diverse team of developers willing to lend their voices, to listen and to be heard. That is our mission.

Do you like survival games? Do you want to join a collaborative team of experienced developers at the early stage of a new project in a new world...and help write the next chapter in Blizzard's story?

This is your call to adventure. Will you answer it?

Open Positions

ART

• Environment Artist (Associate to Senior)
• Senior Character Artist
• Technical Artist (FX Pipeline)
• VFX Artist (Associate to Senior)
• Senior Concept Artist

DESIGN

• Associate Level Designer
• Level Designer

ENGINEERING

• Lead Software Engineer, Engine
• Senior Software Engineer, Audio
• Senior Software Engineer, Server
• Senior Software Engineer, Tools

[Arcling 898]

Survival games aren't my thing, they are usually very boring. But at least it looks like it's going to be in a brand new universe, so this might be interesting, if they can come up with a good story.

[Dejo93 1,023]

Looks interesting

[Baharok 234]

I can just speak for myself, but in case of survival games i liked Subnautica and if Blizzard, a company with a lot more ressources can work on this genre, i am very excited to see what they are going to develop to be honest!

[Teufel 331]

5 hours ago, Arcling said:

Survival games aren't my thing, they are usually very boring. But at least it looks like it's going to be in a brand new universe, so this might be interesting, if they can come up with a good story.

You'd be surprised what a kickstarter-funded Russian arthouse team can come up with when it comes to survival games and characters.

Blizzard surely can do better, if they won't let WoW writers touch it, that is.

[Arcling 898]

7 minutes ago, Teufel said:

You'd be surprised what a kickstarter-funded Russian arthouse team can come up with when it comes to survival games and characters.

Blizzard surely can do better, if they won't let WoW writers touch it, that is.

Both of these artworks are very generic. Maybe it's just very early concept art and it's going to look nothing like it.

[Teufel 331]

16 hours ago, Arcling said:

Both of these artworks are very generic. Maybe it's just very early concept art and it's going to look nothing like it.

Kinda, yeah. An elf-like person in front of Eluvian-like object surely rings some bells...

[Arcling 898]

7 minutes ago, Teufel said:

Kinda, yeah. An elf-like person in front of Eluvian-like object surely rings some bells...

It looks like it could have been from anywhere. If I didn't know anything and someone showed it to me and told it's a new character from League of Legends, I would believe it.

And on another artwork, modern people discovering some portal to fantasy world. Reminds me of Nexus from HotS with its multiple "realms".

Edited January 26, 2022 by Arcling

[Pandabuffel 184]

On 1/26/2022 at 6:02 PM, Arcling said:

It looks like it could have been from anywhere. If I didn't know anything and someone showed it to me and told it's a new character from League of Legends, I would believe it.

Judging by the fact that they're still hiring a lot of people for the early stages in a new project and there being pretty much no information at all, I'm pretty confident they haven't even made their first steps into developing anything yet. The reason they look generic is because they ARE generic: there is nothing for artwork to consist of as there is nothing to make art from to begin with. Even the artstyle is different for both images. So I don't think it's really fair to make any form of judgement yet based on those images, they probably added both just for flavour.

[Brutality 2]

Yeah we need this one.