1UP.com has a great interview with Blizzard's President and CEO Mike Morhaime about the recent merge with Activision.  Understandably, people are very concernt that the merger will effect games such as the juggernaut "World of Warcraft" from Activision, and the "Guitar Hero" franchise from Activision.  Here's a bit of what he had to say.

The thing is, Blizzard has been part of public entities for a very long time. There is nothing about this transaction that changes any of our philosophies or commitments to quality or how we intend to continue developing, publishing, or servicing our games. In fact I spent quite a log time talking to Bobby Kotick [Activision Chairman and CEO and now President and CEO of Activision Blizzard] and Brian Kelly [Co-chairman of Activision and now Activision Blizzard] and others, to make sure they understood Blizzard's development philosophies, our core values, the things that we hold very important, which are very much in line with the things our players expect of us, and there was a great deal of understanding. Also, they share a lot of our philosophies about quality, and they believe, as we do, that the best way to run a business in this industry is to develop high quality games.

For the full interview, click here!

Posted at 05:06AM Dec 03, 2007 by Kevin P McAuliffe in Produce  |  Comments[0]