Over the past three years, as I worked on a book about the history of the video-game company Blizzard Entertainment, a disconcerting question kept popping into my head: Why does success seem so awful?
Blizzard Entertainment stormed to the top of the industry with revolutionary hits like “StarCraft” and “World of Warcraft,” until gender discrimination claims and controversial corporate ...
Beforehand, that title was held by Activision’s merger with Blizzard Entertainment’s parent company. Now, you may not know the name Blizzard, but chances are you’ve seen their work ...
Not much more is known about it. James Phinney, a lead designer at Blizzard, tried to get a turn-based strategy game called Shattered Nation off the ground at Blizzard in the 1990s. It was ...