Mike Morhaime (left) and J. Allen Brack at BlizzCon 2018.
Mike Morhaime (left) and J. Allen Brack at BlizzCon 2018.
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Blizzard cofounder Mike Morhaime hands baton to J. Allen Brack at BlizzCon 2018

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Blizzard cofounder Mike Morhaime bid farewell to thousands of fans at the BlizzCon fan event today during the opening keynote.

Morhaime recently announced that, after 27 years, he was retiring as CEO of Blizzard and was appointing J. Allen Brack (see our exclusive interview) as the president. Morhaime got a round of applause as he walked onstage in his new role as adviser to Blizzard.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.