Mike Morhaime retired in April after nearly 28 years at Blizzard.
Mike Morhaime was a cofounder of Blizzard and he formally left in 2019.
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Mike Morhaime: The highlights and lessons of nearly three decades at Blizzard

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 19 min

Mike Morhaime was recognized at the Gamelab event in Barcelona with the Honor Award, as his wife and four-year-old daughter looked on from the front row.

He received a standing ovation for the recognition of a career that spanned more than 27 years at a single company. Before that, I was honored to moderate a fireside chat with Morhaime about his career onstage in front of hundreds of onlookers at Gamelab.

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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.