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Is Blizzard gettin' serious about next-gen consoles?

Don't get too excited just yet, but Blizzard has just posted a new job listing for a Senior Producer with "extensive firsthand experience with Blizzard games" who has recently made and shipped a AAA title for a current generation console. However, it is the optional skills that has the internet fluttering:
  • Experience in writing software.
  • Localization experience on a shipped console title.
  • Xbox 360, PS3, or Wii production experience.
The latter inclusion is not really valid yet (anyone developing for PS3 or Wii have, obviously, not finished producing their next-generation game) and was likely added to keep the job listing fresh in a few months, but it does reveal Blizzard's intentions, StarCraft: Ghost notwithstanding, to rejoin the console market.

We have heard mutterings before, about this time last year, of Blizzard's interest in a DS version of StarCraft ... and have heard nothing of it since. Given Blizzard's reticence and long development times, it would likely be a couple of years before we heard anything. Aside from tweaking World of Warcraft and finalizing the expansion pack, do we have any idea what Blizzard is up to? (Swimming pool of money)

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[Via Codename Revolution; thanks, enbob89]

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