Talking to Gamasutra, Frank Pearce, founding member and senior vice president of product development for Blizzard revealed that the company has a third team hard at work on a new title, separate from World of Warcraft and StarCraft II.
The comment came amid discussion of the company
s current workforce. "Our global headcount is 2,700," said Pearce, "And most of that is customer service for World of Warcraft! In terms of development staff it¡¯s probably around 350. World of Warcraft is about 135 people, 40 for Starcraft II, 40 for team 3, our cinematics team is about 85 guys. Then there¡¯s sound and Q/A and that sort of thing."
When pressed for details regarding the new project, Pearce was cagey. "Team 3 is working on something really awesome. I can¡¯t give you any hints, but it¡¯s totally awesome."
All attempts to extract additional information were understandably met with looks of shock and horror from Blizzard
s director of global public relations, who also attended the meeting.
Gamasutra was able to confirm that, in spite of Rob Pardo
s comments at Hollywood and Games that they weren
t giving up on StarCraft Ghost, this Blizzard project remains something different. With Blizzcon coming up in mere weeks, it
s possible that additional information could be revealed at that time.