13 Facts About Mike Morhaime

Mike Morhaime is the chief executive officer and founder of Dreamhaven, located in Irvine, California.

Mike Morhaime served on the Vivendi Games executive committee since January 1999, when Blizzard Entertainment, Inc became a subsidiary of Vivendi Games.

Mike Morhaime was born into a Jewish family and graduated from Granada Hills High School in 1985.

Mike 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 .

Mike 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 planning for the release of World of Warcraft in late 2004, Mike Morhaime thought that the market for the much larger and more interactive new game—the first in their history to require players to pay a monthly subscription fee—would grow slowly and would be an unpopular surprise to the gaming community.

Mike Morhaime is based in Irvine, California, and has two game development studios called Secret Door and Moonshot Games.

In 2008, Mike Morhaime was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame.

In 2019, Mike Morhaime was appointed the 2019 Honor Award at the Gamelab Barcelona, in Spain for his success in the gaming industry.

In 2012, Mike 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.

Mike Morhaime is known for his work with the gaming community, but worked on the 2016 film Warcraft: The Beginning.

In 2017, Mike Morhaime bought a mansion in a gated Rancho Mirage community in Riverside County, California for $2.

Mike Morhaime is a member of ETC, a metal band formed of and by Blizzard employees, where he plays bass guitar.