Blizzard Is Hiring for a First-Person Game Engine

One of my favorite ways to feed speculation of future games is to look at what major game developers are posting in their job listings. This time we find a listing by Blizzard looking for a senior engineer for a first-person game involving vehicles.

The job listing is as follows:

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented gameplay engineer to help create vehicles and build vehicle handling features in a robust first-person engine for an unannounced project. The ideal candidate has proven experience in vehicle handling, with exposure to other game systems like physics, animation, and cameras.

Alright, time to put our wild accusation hats on! Clearly, the listing doesn't explain much of what it will be for. It's possible they are discreetly looking for more people to work on Overwatch. Most fans are choosing to believe it will be a new game entirely. Looking at Blizzard's behavior as of late, they seem to be in a pre-dev state. This means that if it is a new game, it won't be for a good while still, so don't be sitting on the edge of your seat just yet.

The idea of a new title from Blizzard is exciting. It being first-person interests me the most. Overwatch is still too popular to have any kind of sequel. Though the idea isn't out of the question. An FPS spin-off of Starcraft would be cool.

In the end, we still know nothing. Though whenever the day comes that they reveal this project, we'll be there to report on it.