{"id":52276,"date":"2018-10-03T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/327879"},"modified":"2018-10-03T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T22:20:00","slug":"warcraft-executive-producer-j-allen-brack-is-now-president-of-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/03\/warcraft-executive-producer-j-allen-brack-is-now-president-of-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Warcraft executive producer J. Allen Brack is now president of Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activision-Blizzard has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/blizzard\/22549840\/message-from-mike-morhaime-and-j-allen-brack\">announced<\/a> new leadership changes for Blizzard Entertainment, most notably the departure of Mike Morhaime as company president, according to a press release released today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his place, <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> executive producer J. Allen Brack will be stepping into the role and taking charge of the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brack&#8217;s promotion comes alongside the addition of Ray Gresko and Blizzard founder Allen Adham to the company&#8217;s executive team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This changing of the guard does come amidst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/316856\/Hearthstone_executive_producer_Hamilton_Chu_leaves_Blizzard.php\">a semi-recent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/316811\/Hearthstone_game_director_Ben_Brode_departs_Blizzard.php\">trend of high-level departures<\/a> from Blizzard Entertainment. Though no major public-facing\u00a0changes have come with these departures, Morhaime is the third upper-level employee to leave the company this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been some time since Gamasutra\u00a0spoke with Brack, but last time we did, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/117517\/Blizzard_Will_Definitely_Work_On_A_Console_Game_At_Some_Point.php\">he appeared to have an eye on the company&#8217;s console future<\/a> (which has now come to pass with the success of <em>Overwatch<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision-Blizzard has announced new leadership changes for Blizzard Entertainment, most notably the departure of Mike Morhaime as company president, according to a press release released today.\u00a0 In his place, World of Warcraft executive producer J. Allen Brack will be stepping into the role and taking charge of the company.\u00a0 Brack&#8217;s promotion comes alongside the addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52276","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\/52276","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=52276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}