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Swingin' Ape Takes Over StarCraft Ghost Development

Posted by simoniker on from the arms-of-metal dept.

Thanks to IGN PS2 for its news story discussing Blizzard's appointment of developer Swingin' Ape Studios, creators of Metal Arms: Glitch In The System, who will "henceforth develop StarCraft: Ghost, the oft delayed third-person action / adventure adaptation of Blizzard's acclaimed RTS franchise." The story notes: "Just two weeks earlier it was announced that Nihilistic, Ghost's former developer, would no longer be at the helm of the project. Nihilistic's departure was said to be the result of timing issues", and furthermore reveals: "Swingin' Ape will in the future collaboratively develop multi-platform titles with Blizzard based off Blizzard licenses."

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  1. Decreased name recognition by News+for+nerds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've heard in Korea Starcraft is huge and still doing well, but these days we have very little to hear about Starcraft excpet for the news of delay. When was the last title from Starcraft franchise released? Moreover, Ghost is not RTS and further delay will decay its prospect badly to the degree it has no sense to have "Starcraft" in its title.

    1. Re:Decreased name recognition by fireduck · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Ghost is not RTS and further delay will decay its prospect badly to the degree it has no sense to have "Starcraft" in its title.

      by this logic, World of Warcraft shouldn't be called that because it's not an RTS and Half-Life 2 shouldn't be called that because it's been delayed for years. That's just silly logic.

      Starcraft 2 will come when Starcraft 2 comes. I know it's a bit frustrating, but Blizzard has undergone some big personnel changes. They lost a bunch of developers several years back (the guys who jumped ship to form Arena.net); then last year they lost the entire upper eschelon at Blizzard North (including "the voice of blizzard" Bill Roper). It's nice to hope that their next title will have the same magic as their previous games, but I just don't know. Blizz, Valve and Sid Meier/Fraxis are the 3 companies who's games I keep playing years after release. would be a shame to lose one of 'em...

  2. Re:Swingin ape titles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I was under the impression that Blizzard had said originally, and are still saying now, that this game is for consoles only. I don't see the fact that this developer has previously done a title for Xbox, Gamecube and PS2 as anything other than an indication that Blizzard still intend this title to be for Xbox, Gamecube and PS2.