Michael Morhaime
kombuwa wrote an interesting post today on
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Michael Morhaime co-founded Silicon & Synapse (later named Blizzard Entertainment) in 1991 with Allen Adham and Frank Pearce.
he is the president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer located in Irvine, California and currently owned by the Vivendi Games group of Vivendi. He is also an alumnus of Triangle Fraternity and received his bachelor’s degree in 1990 from UCLA.
Morhaime appears in animated form in the South Park episode Make Love, Not Warcraft, which deals with the World of Warcraft MMORPG.
Morhaime plays poker and reached 2nd place in edition 2006 of DICE’s Celebrity Poker Tournament. In the last round, Mike faced Scott Fischman and Perry Friedman (World Series of Poker professionals), as well as Ray Muzyka, co-CEO of video game developer Bioware. After a dramatic 45-minute battle, Ray emerged victorious, with Mike placing 2nd overall in the tournament.
Morhaime graduated from Granada Hills High School in 1985. He [...]
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