10 Promising 2019 Video Game Rumours You Need To Know
6. Blizzard Are Taking Notes From Pokemon
The creators of Overwatch, Diablo, and most importantly, World of Warcraft, Blizzard have a sneaky trick up their sleeve when it comes to what their next mobile release could be. And it borrows pretty heavily from a game we already know.
Strangely enough, Warcraft looks to be coming to mobile phones mirroring Pokemon Go's mechanics. Jason Schreier of Kotaku mentioned it in a report on the company when addressing the Diablo shenanigans:
"As one developer explained, the iconic orc statue in the center of Blizzard’s campus is a Pokémon Gym, and staff wage war over who gets to control the landmark on a daily basis. The natural extension of that was for one of Blizzard’s incubation teams to develop a Warcraft version of Pokémon Go, which is in development for smartphones now... People who have played the Warcraft mobile game say it’s also got a lot more to it than Pokémon Go, including single-player mechanics."
There's little else on the game that's been announced, but we can assume something interesting at the very least. Not many games have even attempted Pokemon Go's unique AR take on the world, never mind succeeded, so it'll be interesting to see just how much Blizzard borrow from the mobile giant next year.
An official announcement awaits at the very least, and it looks like next year would be prime time to unleash this bizarre gaming nugget on the world.