Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce leaves game studio

Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce is leaving the game studio after 28 years. The man is retiring. He is the second founder in less than a year to end his career at the well-known game maker.

“I plan to do more outdoor activities, I would like to learn to play an instrument. I hope to spend more time on areas of my life that may not have received much attention in the past,” Pearce wrote in a suicide note. the Blizzard website. Motivations other than ‘retirement’ are not mentioned.

Another founder, Mike Morhaime, left in April. His departure was not accompanied by a motivation. The third founder, Allen Adham, left in 2004 but returned in 2016. Earlier this year, the company also lost two financial executives. Spencer Neumann, the CFO of the joint holding company, left first, followed by Amrita Ahuja from the Blizzard branch. At the same time, the company announces that Rob Kostich has been promoted to director of the holding company. Kostich has been with the company for fifteen years and is best known as head of the branch responsible for Call of Duty, one of the publisher’s most successful series.

It was also announced this year that parent company Activision has broken the agreement with developer Bungie, which means that from now on that studio will publish the Destiny games itself.