{"id":1199,"date":"2006-03-30T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"Jare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard woes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has one of the best track records in gaming history, with every game release becoming a massive hit. But they have had their share of failures as well: <b>Warcraft Adventures<\/b> was canned after a year or two, and <b>Warcraft 3<\/b> was redesigned from the ground up two years after development started. Now, you may have heard that Blizzard has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/news.php?aid=15694\" target=\"_blank\">halted<\/a>the development of <b>Starcraft: Ghost<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>So is Starcraft: Ghost going the way of Adventures, or will they pull off a redesign? A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/jobs_display.php?job_id=9438\" target=\"_blank\">fairly descriptive<\/a> job offer from Blizzard may offer a hint or two: they say &quot;consoles&quot;, and they say &quot;action, tactical or first-person shooter genres&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever way it goes, my hat is off to a company that is willing to accept their mistakes and go the extra mile to ensure that nothing but the best comes out of their studios. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/content_page.php?aid=15738\" target=\"_blank\">Other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/content_page.php?aid=15767\" target=\"_blank\">companies<\/a> are not given the luxury of a second try.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat related to the topic of revitalized games, any <b>Total Annihilation<\/b> lover should know about <a href=\"http:\/\/taspring.clan-sy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spring.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has one of the best track records in gaming history, with every game release becoming a massive hit. But they have had their share of failures as well: Warcraft Adventures was canned after a year or two, and Warcraft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}