At BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard Entertainment made a wager on memory and reinvention, announcing StarCraft 3 as an open-world shooter due in 2030 — a genre transformation for a franchise that once defined competitive strategy gaming. Alongside a Diablo V reveal and Warcraft updates, the studio signaled a deliberate turn toward its legacy properties, betting that beloved names can carry players into unfamiliar territory. It is a gamble as old as storytelling itself: can something beloved survive becoming something new?