BlizzCon 2026: All the Biggest Game Announcements and Reveals

BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard Entertainment’s major gaming event featuring new game and expansion announcements, gameplay reveals, developer panels, esports competitions, and fan activities, got off to a big start. The opening ceremony delivered several announcements, but two stood out above the rest: a new Diablo game is coming, and StarCraft is making a comeback.

Blizzard confirmed that Diablo V is in development and targeting a Spring 2029 release, while a completely new open-world StarCraft game is planned for 2030. The StarCraft reveal is particularly interesting because it is not another real-time strategy game. Blizzard describes it as an original open-world shooter, and Xbox has confirmed that it will come to consoles as well as PC.

Here’s everything worth knowing from BlizzCon 2026.

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StarCraft Returns With a New Game Coming to Consoles in 2030 

StarCraft is coming back, but not in the way many fans probably expected.

Blizzard announced a new open-world StarCraft shooter targeting 2030. Rather than returning to the franchise's traditional RTS roots, the new game will put players directly into the StarCraft universe through a shooter built around an open-world setting.

There's still a lot we don't know, including the game's full title, gameplay systems and how Blizzard plans to translate StarCraft's factions and large-scale warfare into this format. The biggest Xbox detail came shortly after the announcement: the game is confirmed for consoles alongside PC.