Diablo 2 Resurrected has probably been Blizzard’s last remastered game for some time, as the studio says it’s shifting focus to ‘new games’ and ‘new types of games’.
“It’s worth pointing out that we now have relatively little to do to remaster,” Allen Adham, Blizzard’s senior vice president, told CNET. “So going forward, you can expect to see new stuff.”
If you want to work technically, Blizzard has not mastered yet everyone of his old games. According to Bloomberg, Blizzard recently broke down its “Classic Games” section responsible for StarCraft: Remastered and Warcraft 3: Reforged, but we have not yet seen proper remasters of the original Diablo of Warcraft 2. And for now, it sounds like it will stay that way.
“But to be crystal clear, our development pipeline is as rich today as it has ever been. And we have new teams working on new games, new kinds of games,” Adham continued.
Blizzard teased several remasters until BlizzCon 2021, where Diablo 2 Resurrected as well as the Blizzard Arcade Collection, a bundle featuring The Lost Vikings 1, Rock N Roll Racing and Blackthorne, were unveiled.
About what new genres Blizzard can immerse his toes in the next, we have not the slightest idea at the moment. And with Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 still at least a year out from launch, the studio is unlikely to throw a whole new IP into its marketing focus for some time.
For what to play in the meantime, this is the best games of 2021 (so far).