Blizzard Entertainment cofounder Mike Morhaime steps down

Blizzard Entertainment president and cofounder Mike Morhaime is no longer leading the gaming company he helped start in the 1990s. J. Allen Brack, the executive producer of World of Warcraft and longtime Blizzard employee, is taking over as president.

Morhaime will continue to serve as an adviser, according to a company press release on BusinessWire. Activision Blizzard also tweeted out the news moments ago. Blizzard also said that cofounder Allend Adham would join the executive leadership team and that Ray Gresko would be its new chief development officer. Adham was Blizzard’s first president, and he’s worked on the Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft franchises.

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