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First official confirmation that new Blizzard MMO is original IP
Massively — While we've had reason to believe that Blizzard's next MMO would be a new IP, but this marks the first occasion that we've had some kind of official confirmation of our speculation. In a post on the official World of Warcraft forums, Blizzard community manager Zarhym came out and said the new MMO was in fact an original IP, saying, ...

Blizzard Sprouting New Franchise With Next MMO
WoW Vault - The Ultimate Resource — ... The big World of Warcraft buzz today comes in the form of a forum post from one of Blizzard's Community Managers. Zarhym responds when a player gets their panties in a twist over a bunch of rumours. Briefly addressed is Blizzard's next MMO, which we've been told will be something completely non-WoW related. Here's a little further confirmation, and a hint that the game is probably many moons off yet. We have nothing to advertise for the new MMO because it's a shell of a game thus far. We've already stated it'll be a brand new franchise, which means the lore, art, and game ...

Next Blizzard MMO to be completely original game
Big Download Blog — Filed under: MMO, World of Warcraft Several months ago it was reported that Blizzard's next MMO game would definately not be a sequel to their hit game World of Warcraft. Lots of folks thought that the next-gen MMO title might use another Blizzard property (Starcraft or Diablo) as its basis. Now word ...

Blizzards Next MMORPG Will Be A New IP
Stropp's World — It’s official, well sort of official; the news on teh Interwebs is that Blizzards next (I hesitate to say it’s upcoming) MMORPG will be based on a new intellectual property, something I have previously speculated about. From a post by Zarhym on the official forums: We have nothing to advertise for the new MMO because it’s a shell of a game thus far. We’ve already stated it’ll be a brand new franchise, which means the lore, art, and game play are being developed entirely from scratch. It’s an overwhelming process, but a process through which we excel. Our track record supports this. I’m not ...