According to a report published on the pages of Windows Central, Microsoft and Activision have founded a new team within Blizzard composed mainly of King developersthe house that brought you Candy Crush Saga, Farm Heroes Saga and many more.
The aim would be to create some double A gamesthat is, titles without budgets and pharaonic development times behind them, based on Blizzard’s existing franchisessuch as Overwatch, Warcraft, and StarCraft, just to name a few.
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In the article, Jez Corden states that the information is corroborated by the fact that a good number of developers have updated their LinkedIn profiles to change their job title from King to Blizzard.
It goes without saying that, given King’s vast experience in the mobile sector, it is likely that the alleged new Blizzard team could be responsible for creating spin-off or mobile conversions of the most popular games of the software house. Moreover, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently reiterated that the company’s focus in the video game sector is not only on PC and consoles, but also in the mobile sector.
Corden says that at the same time the company’s goal is to assemble teams working on projects with reduced development times and costs and integrated within larger organizations, trying to imitate the Nintendo model in some ways.
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