Blizzard: newly revealed survival is already playable, development started five years ago

The mysterious survival game just announced by Blizzard is already available in a playable form, but it's unclear when it will debut. It also appears that development began almost five years ago.

This information comes from Craig Amai, head of the team that is working on the new survival game for PC and consoles Blizzard: a project that started when Amai left the development of World of Warcraft four years seven months ago.

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To confirm that the title is currently playable was the current head of Blizzard, Mike Ybarra, who wrote on Twitter precisely to have played for several hours with the mysterious survival and feel extraordinarily excited about it.

I’ve played many hours of this project with the team and I’m incredibly excited about the teams vision and the brand-new world it presents for players to immerse themselves in together. Join us to help make it a reality! https://t.co/pLhijX2Li9

— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) January 25, 2022

We should be as excited as he is given the resume of Craig Amai, who joined Blizzard back in 2004 and over time became a senior designer of World of Warcraft, then lead quest designer until precisely 2017.

To consolidate the excellent opinion that the producers have of this game also intervened Geoffrey Virtue, who helped coordinate work on the title between 2019 and 2021. "This is a project that will have a great impact on the video game industry," he wrote a few days ago.