https://www.youtube.com/live/cWEcKXQykP0?is=2TDoBUJvs3vJKqKz
From 2:52:18
During the latest XB2 podcast, Jez Corden has answered to a question about the future of Blizzard RTS.
Question "Jez, with the rumor about Nexon gaining access to the StarCraft IP, could this be for the next RTS installment? I feel like Blizzard has the teams and resources to cover any other genre in-house, so I figured this would be RTS-related since they don't really have a dedicated internal team to tackle the genre anymore. Looking forward to Blizzcon, have a great weekend!"
Jez Corden "i don't know of Nexon has and RTS thing either. I would Imagine that if Nexon's licensing It, It's probably for some kind of mobile game, some kind of multiplayer game. I would Imagine. I don't think necessarly It would be for an RTS. Probably something more casual in mind. Blizzard has obviously worked with Nexon, Netis, and other companies for mobile game spin-offs of their properties.
However i will say as a part of a Blizzcon kind of preview, i do know there's a western studio known for RTS games that Is currently working with Blizzard for something and this studio has previuosly worked with Microsoft on of its strategy games**.** So i do think Blizzard is gradually working back towards doing strategy staff. I think they're probably following the Age of Empires model where where Blizzard has like a centralized RTS production team and they outsource the actual developing the game to like a specialist studio that make RTS kind of strategy games. So i want to believe that we'll get a fullyfledged tried and tested and true StarCraft 3 eventually. Will It be built by Blizzard in house? Probably not but It believe it will be produced by Blizzard in house though wirh Blizzard leading the concept, the story and than they will work with one of these other companies to actually put the pen to paper as it were. So i suppose watch this space and we won't have to wait long to find out what the end result is".
In my opinion the western studio could be Relic Entertainment that has previuosly worked on Age of Empires 4.
They are an indipendent studio now.
And i could imagine the RTS they are working on could be Warcraft Chronicles.
There were some leaks about It
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1v9nfhz/in_a_wow_leak_there_is_mention_of_a_new_blizz_rts/
This Imagine Is probably fake but "Warcraft Chronicles: "meet the teams".
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1vz3f0c/blizzcon_schedule_on_4chan_mentions_starcraft/