11 Facts About Greg Street

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Greg Street is an American video game designer and Head of Creative Development for Riot Games.

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Greg Street was previously employed by Blizzard Entertainment as Lead Systems Designer on the award-winning MMORPG World of Warcraft, and is known by his screen name "Ghostcrawler" on the World of Warcraft forums and his own Twitter account.

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Greg Street worked with Ensemble Studios on the Age of Empires series of real-time strategy games, during which period he was known by the screen name "Deathshrimp".

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On 10 August 2018, Greg Street shared the news that he would become Head of Creative Development at Riot, through a tweet in which he stated he would not be working directly on League of Legends anymore.

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On 28 July 2021, Greg Street's name came up in a photo-op in the infamous Cosby Room with Alex Afrasiabi, who was named in California State law suit against Activision-Blizzard for mistreating women at the company.

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Greg Street graduated from McDaniel College in 1991 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Biology and Philosophy, later earning a PhD in marine science.

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Between 1996 and 1998, Greg Street worked as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina.

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Greg Street helped develop every Age of Empires game from Rise of Rome on, until his departure from the company.

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Greg Street was hired by Blizzard Entertainment in February 2008, and was the lead systems designer on the MMORPG World of Warcraft until November 2013.

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Greg Street worked in a similar capacity with Blizzard as he did with Ensemble as a designer.

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Greg Street was often on the message boards announcing changes to the game or discussing them with players.

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