As early as 2011, news of Blizzard's secretive and upcoming MMO–codenamed "Project Titan"–was hitting the ears of many loyal Blizzard fans and video game news outlets alike. Though the game was never officially announced, it never stopped Blizzard from mentioning Titan in various forms, including the middle of last year with the announcement that development of the game would be reset, in order for the team to re-evaluate the direction they wanted to take with the project.

After months of silence regarding Blizzard's mysterious next-gen MMO, it was revealed in a recent Polygon interview with Blizzard Co-Founder and CEO, Mike Morhaime, and Vice President of story and franchise development, Chris Metzen, that "Project Titan" had officially been canceled.

After the rumors first swirled on Venturebeat today, there has been a lot of conjecture over the future of Titan, the mysterious and rabidly anticipated MMO in development at Blizzard.

With reports that the project has undergone extensive changes in its design and implementation which could delay it to at least 2016, we reached out to Blizzard and asked for comment.

Blizzard responded as follows:

"We've always had a highly iterative development process, and the unannounced MMO is no exception. We've come to a point where we need to make some large design and technology changes to the game. We're using this opportunity to shift some of our resources to assist with other projects while the core team adapts our technology and tools to accommodate these new changes. Note that we haven't announced any dates for the MMO."

So with no announced date it's not accurate to say the project has been pushed back, nevertheless this would seem to indicate fans might be waiting a while longer for large revelations on the details of the project. For those expecting a lot of information at Blizzcon, this seems unlikely with this news.

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Scott "Jarimor" Hawkes, Editor in Chief