Kotaku
As we rumble ever forward toward May 19 and some sort of announcement from Blizzard in South Korea more and more details seem to be shaking loose.
We first reported two weeks ago that Blizzard was working on a next-gen massively multiplayer online game after one of our readers pointed out some interesting job listings. At the time I theorizes that perhaps a World of Starcraft game could be announced at blizzard's Worldwide invitational. Several sites were quick to jump on the bandwagon saying that they too thought that a World of Starcraft game could be coming down the pipeline.
Last night I was digging around Blizzard's job listings and came across a few other jobs that point to some major movement going on over at the company.
Most interesting are the three listings for a mobile producer, lead mobile software engineer and lead mobile UI designer. That's right Blizzard is going mobile. Looking over the listings, I suspect that the team of three will likely be working on bringing some sort of game (likely World of Warcraft) functionality to the mobile phone, as opposed to full games. (Thank god).
The company is also looking to hire an associate brand manager, a person whose job will be to amp up interest in "Blizzard products." I can't imagine this would be for World of Warcraft since it's becoming one of the most known PC games on the planet, so I suspect it might be for some new product.
So what we've got now is confirmation from Blizzard of a May 19 announcement, a recent spike in hiring for a next-gen MMO, a mobile functionality team and a marketing person. It's anyone's guess right now, but now I'm sort of leaning toward something World of Warcraft related, maybe the game is heading to the Xbox 360? That could even explain the mobile team, if they wanted to make use of the upcoming Live Anywhere functionality.
