Mike Morhaime is CEO of DreamHaven.

Ex-Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime: To the Blizzard women …, I am extremely sorry that I failed you

Former Blizzard Entertainment president and company cofounder Mike Morhaime issued an apology to the women of Blizzard who have suffered alleged sexual discrimination charged in a lawsuit by a California state agency this week. Blizzard company that makes games such as World of Warcraft and Overwatch.

Morhaime spent 28 years at the company, and he stepped down in early 2019. He has since gone on to start a new game company, Dreamhaven, with his wife, Amy. This week, the California Department of Fair Employment and housing sued parent firm Activision Blizzard for sex discrimination, and the details of the two-year investigation included explosive and ugly allegations about a “frat boy culture” at the game company, which owns both Activision (maker of Call of Duty) and 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.