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Holiday gift suggestions for your gamer | The DeanBeat


OK, I've been a little late coming up with my holiday gift guide, as we've already passed both Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

The journey of the founders like Mike Morhaime and Allen Adham (and Frank Pearce) was an epic one, and their clash with Activision over become a more corporate and predictable operation is a story for the ages. Schreier also covers Blizzard’s sexual harassment scandal and its clash with California regulators, but the book treats the subject in a fair way and it doesn’t include the most salacious details for the sake of titillation. It’s easy to judge Blizzard for its failures from the sidelines, but it’s worth remembering the unlikely miracles that it pulled off with so many magical hits in the game industry, from World of Warcraft to StarCraft and Diablo.

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