Blizzard’s AAA Survival Game Has Been In Development For Nearly 5 Years – Report

Blizzard Entertainment has recently announced that its making a new AAA survival game for PC and consoles. Given the scarcity of details on the matter, it seemed that the project was pretty early on in development although a recent PC Gamer report seems to indicate that it might have been a pretty long time since the game started life.

Project lead Craig Amai was previously working with Blizzard on the World of Warcraft team, which he left in July 2017 (according to his LinkedIn profile) to pursue this project that started life as a “humble pitch”. Furthermore, there’s also proof that the game is in a playable state, since Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra tweeted that he has played “many hours” of this project. Of course, the time this project spent in development doesn’t dictate when it will be released – so fans should keep expectations in check for now. Why Blizzard announced the game with only 2 concept arts remains a mystery though.

Blizzard Entertainment previously said that the studio has more projects in development right now than ever before, and it seems that the studio might be having a hard time juggling all of these mostly live-service based projects at once  – more so in light of recent controversies and departures. Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 will not release at least until 2023 while fans of Overwatch, Diablo, and Warcraft have been asking for more substantial updates.

Once upon a time this dream project was humble pitch deck on my desktop. Now it’s a team full of caring and passionate people sharing a vision I couldn’t be prouder to be part of.https://t.co/dCumH9yoEm

— Craig Amai 💙 (@craig_amai) January 25, 2022

I’ve played many hours of this project with the team and I’m incredibly excited about the teams vision and the brand-new world it presents for players to immerse themselves in together. Join us to help make it a reality! https://t.co/pLhijX2Li9

— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) January 25, 2022