Michael "Mike" Morhaime was born on November 3,1967 and is an American video game developer and entrepreneur.
16 Facts About Michael Morhaime
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Michael Morhaime is the chief executive officer and founder of Dreamhaven, located in Irvine, California.
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Michael Morhaime served on the Vivendi Games executive committee since January 1999, when Blizzard Entertainment, Inc became a subsidiary of Vivendi Games.
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Michael Morhaime was born into a Jewish family and graduated from Granada Hills High School in 1985.
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Michael Morhaime is an alumnus of Triangle Fraternity and received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Michael Morhaime discovered that the console was programmable, and he taught himself how to write simple games on it, building off of example programming code he found in a gaming newsletter.
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In 2017, Michael Morhaime earned $12.3 million as the CEO of Blizzard.
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On October 3,2018, Michael Morhaime announced he was stepping down as the company president and CEO, instead becoming an advisor to the company.
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In 2020, Mike Michael Morhaime founded Dreamhaven, a new video game company.
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Michael Morhaime is based in Irvine, California, and has two game development studios called Secret Door and Moonshot Games.
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In 2008, Michael Morhaime was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame.
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In 2019, Michael Morhaime was appointed the 2019 Honor Award at the Gamelab Barcelona, in Spain for his success in the gaming industry.
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In 2012, Michael Morhaime made a cameo appearance on The Guild, a web series about the lives of a gamers' online experiences with an MMORPG that draws references to World of Warcraft.
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Michael Morhaime is known for his work with the gaming community, but worked on the 2016 film Warcraft: The Beginning.
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In 2017, Michael Morhaime bought a mansion in a gated Rancho Mirage community in Riverside County, California for $2.25 million.
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Michael Morhaime is a member of ETC, a metal band formed of and by Blizzard employees, where he plays bass guitar.