Stories for December 9, 2007: Blizzard things

- The multi-platform tie-in game based on the upcoming Warcraft movie is being developed by the Blizzard "team 3" that used to be Swingin' Ape Studios. This is the "totally awesome" game that some Blizzard employees were referring to as "Hydra" at the Austin GDC earlier this year. Also, StarCraft: Ghost is not secretly still in active development at the moment, but it's the next thing on this team's to-do list after the Warcraft movie game is finished.

- The "next-gen MMO" that Blizzard has been hiring for is Diablo III, which probably won't go into actual development until well into next year. This will be the third time the game has entered production. It's going have both an MMO component (expect something more akin to Guild Wars, and less like World of Warcraft), and a traditional single-player component. There should be a fancy cinematic announcement trailer at some undetermined games industry event during 2008.