Mike Morhaime, CEO of Blizzard Entertainment, in 2011.
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Blizzard Entertainment CEO weighs in as critic of Trump’s Muslim ban

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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An army of tech and game industry leaders have criticized Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims traveling to the U.S. from seven Middle Eastern countries.

Mike Morhaime, CEO of Blizzard Entertainment (the publisher of Overwatch and big division of Activision Blizzard), weighed in today with an email that he shared with his employees, which number in the thousands. His voice has now been added to numerous opponents of the ban. Other game executives who have criticized the ban include the CEOs of Zynga, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and numerous other tech companies.

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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.