Blizzard's 2021 has been bumpy: Studios face past and present allegations of sexism and harassment, while leadership positions have been shuffled and major projects have been postponed. Subsequently, Activision Blizzard was also acquired by Microsoft.
The studio revealed last week that it is working on a brand new survival game set in a "whole new universe" and is looking for help to achieve this goal: "a new IP for PC/consoles" set against the backdrop of "a world unlike anything else created from any other Blizzard."
At present, the company has announced another job opening: "Chief Content Designer – Unpublished Project". The recruitment called for "clear goals for functional and narratively interesting tasks in established Blizzard IP.".
So it's certain that this isn't a job for the Survival Game Project, or one of the projects we currently know as Diablo 4 or Overwatch 2. Sure, this is a Blizzard IP that already exists, so all that's left is StarCraft, Warcraft, and The Lost Vikings. Important clues may be in the elaboration of the job's responsibilities: This senior position will be fully responsible for the narrative experience of the new game and will "lead other designers to create a framework to support repeatable narrative content."
According to PC Gamer editor Rich Stanton's guess based on this job description, the new project should be MMO-like, or at least an online service game, and most likely a new work in the Warcraft series, or maybe a Black Thorn RPG game.