{"id":118399,"date":"2020-09-23T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/370656"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:54:00","slug":"blizzard-co-founder-mike-morhaime-forms-new-game-company-dreamhaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/23\/blizzard-co-founder-mike-morhaime-forms-new-game-company-dreamhaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime forms new game company Dreamhaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhaven.com\/news\/announcement\">established a new game company called Dreamhaven<\/a> to develop and publish original games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Morhaime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/327879\/Blizzard_president_Mike_Morhaime_has_stepped_down.php\">stepped down as Blizzard president in October 2018<\/a>, but stayed on at the <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> developer in an advisory role until April 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dreamhaven has opened two in-house studios called Moonshot and Secret Door to create its own titles, and has filled key positions with a number of Blizzard veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Moonshot will be led by Jason Chayes, Dustin Browder, and Ben Thompson, all of whom spent time at Blizzard in senior roles working on franchises like <em>Hearthstone<\/em>, <em>StarCraft II<\/em>, and <em>World of Warcraft<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Secret Door, meanwhile, is being helmed by Chris Sigaty, Alan Dabiri, and Eric Dodds, another trio who worked on major releases including&nbsp;<em>World of Warcraft<\/em>, <em>StarCraft II<\/em>, <em>Hearthstone<\/em>, and <em>Warcraft III<\/em> in a variety of key positions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Morhaime will lead Dreamhaven as CEO, and said he&#8217;s &#8220;excited to team up with such talented people who care deeply about games and their communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve always believed in the power of games to bring people together regardless of backgrounds or boundaries,&#8221; he added. &#8220;With Dreamhaven, we look forward to creating and sharing new experiences with players everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime has established a new game company called Dreamhaven to develop and publish original games.&nbsp; Morhaime stepped down as Blizzard president in October 2018, but stayed on at the World of Warcraft developer in an advisory role until April 2019.&nbsp; Dreamhaven has opened two in-house studios called Moonshot and Secret Door to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}