星际online?

星际online?

NGA上看到的。

CVG[ ComputerAndVideoGames]网站称，据可靠消息暴雪将于5月19日在韩国举行的世界邀请赛[2007 Worldwide Invitational，WWI]上宣布的新游戏并非预计的新即时战略游戏，而是基于星际争霸背景的另一款网游！点击这里查看： StarCraft MMO blasts into orbit!。

真的？！GameSpot网站曾在4月1日搞了个愚人节新闻：星际世界，但没人当真。暴雪真的产品全面网游化？但暴雪曾做出否认，并称下款网游并非另一款魔兽世界。暴雪有精力再制作一款网游并和魔兽世界竞争？招聘下一代网游设计人员与此有关？而此前坊间的推测，暴雪公布的应该是星际争霸2。CVG的消息有误吗？暴雪的新作到底是什么？看来只有5月19日才能告诉我们。

The long-rumoured new instalment of Blizzard's massive StarCraft series is set to be unveiled later this month - and it's another massively-multiplayer online game in the style of World of Warcraft, CVG can reveal.

Well placed US sources have revealed to us that the StarCraft MMO will be unveiled at an upcoming Blizzard event on May 19 in South Korea - the epicentre of the sci-fi RTS series' rabid fandom.

The unveiling of the new instalment has previously been rumoured for the South Korea event, though we now know that the title is in fact an online spin-off and not a new RTS game as previously assumed.

Of course this is massive news for both Vivendi and the MMO world; Blizzard's other online offering World of Warcraft has topped 6 million subscribers and is arguably the biggest game around today.

The question is, is there room for both World of Warcraft and a StarCraft MMO? The later will have to be a very different type of online game to convince gamers to subscribe to both of Blizzard's pair.

We will of course let you know as soon as soon as Blizzard officially confirms the game on May 19.