TITAN: Blizzard’s Next big MMO after Diablo III

Blizzard’s next-gen MMO, codenamed Titan, will be the “next big thing” following the release of Diablo III , said Blizzard’s CCO Paul Sams.

I believe its the most ambitious thing we’ve ever attempted,and I feel like we have set our company up to succeed on that. We have some of our most talented and most experienced developers on that team. Many of the people that built World of Warcraft are full time on that other team

He said even though the main team has shifted to Titan,” World of Warcraft is still on Blizzard’s priority list:

We’ve spent a lot of time over the last number of years transitioning those people off (of World of Warcraft), and having great people below them that were trained up by them to run World of Warcraft. Those people have been doing it for the last couple of years without the assistance of those people that created it.As it relates to that other (MMO), we think that it’s going to be very impactful in our industry and, we hope, very impactful to the world. We think that that will be, after Diablo III, the next big thing from us. The thing that we hope will happen is that it will not stop World of Warcraft but we believe will eclipse it.

Two titles from Blizzard, Diablo III and StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm are expected to be released in 2012 and “Titan” is expected somewhere in 2013.