Blizzard’s president has said the company decided to announce new StarCraft and Diablo games this weekend, despite their releases being years away, to “convey confidence” that they’ll ship on time. At BlizzCon’s opening ceremony on Saturday, Blizzard announced a new StarCraft open-world shooter and the fifth game in the Diablo series. Unusually for games of this scale, the pair are being announced years ahead of their projected release windows: Diablo…
