Welcome to WarBulletin - your new best friend in the world of gaming. We're all about bringing you the hottest updates and juicy insights from across the gaming universe. Are you into epic RPG adventures or fast-paced eSports? We've got you covered with the latest scoop on everything from next-level PC gaming rigs to the coolest game releases. But hey, we're more than just news! Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of your favorite games? We're talking exclusive interviews with the brains behind the games, fresh off-the-press photos and videos straight from gaming conventions, and, of course, breaking news that you just can't miss. We know you love gaming 24/7, and that's why we're here round the clock, updating you on all things gaming. Whether it's the lowdown on a new patch or the buzz about the next big gaming celeb, we're on it.

Contacts

  • Owner: SNOWLAND s.r.o.
  • Registration certificate 06691200
  • 16200, Na okraji 381/41, Veleslavín, 162 00 Praha 6
  • Czech Republic

The famous Blizzard graveyard of canceled games includes a sci-fi Diablo and a Warcraft take on Helldivers

Developer Blizzard is notorious for canceling games, but the sheer number of abandoned ideas might still surprise you. It'll also make you wonder what your life would have been like with five times as many World of Warcraft spin-offs in it. 

Journalist Jason Schreier discusses Blizzard's lengthy video games kill list on a new episode of the MinnMax podcast, on which he also promotes his book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, out October 8. 

"Bloodlines, which was a space vampire game? [...] Diablo for the Game Boy…" lists off MinnMax founder Ben Hanson during the interview. "Then [defunct California offshoot] Blizzard North, after Diablo, was working on Star-blo, which was sci-fi Diablo. I'm assuming that's got to be just a code name, right?" It is, but you have to admit it has a nice melody to it. 

Other canceled Blizzard games, Schreier shares, include the following: the post-apocalyptic game Nomad, an early, third-person camera version of Diablo 4 called Hades, a World of Warcraft take on Pokémon Go called Orbits, a Helldivers version of WoW, the survival game Odyssey, a God of War WoW game called Andromeda, and the Minecraft-meets-WoW game Avalon.

That last game "has not been made public before," Schreier says, though it was in development for two years under former Diablo 3 game director Jay Wilson and Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth.

"People who played it said it was cool," Schreier continues. "From the way it was described to me, it sounds a little more [like sandbox action RPG] Dragon Quest Builders than Minecraft, and there were quests and a storyline [...] but it was all Minecraft-style, pick up blocks and whatever." Think of all the square orcs you could have made.

Blizzard's axed MMO Project Titan reportedly "cost the company $80 million," and was like Animal Crossing or The Sims meets Overwatch .

Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more

Read more on gamesradar.com
DMCA