Companies Created By Former Employees
Over the years, some former Blizzard employees have moved on and established gaming companies of their own:
- Flagship Studios, creators of Hellgate: London, also worked on Mythos.
- ArenaNet, creators of the Guild Wars franchise.
- Ready at Dawn Studios, creators of Daxter, God of War: Chains of Olympus and an Ōkami port for the Wii.
- Red 5 Studios, currently working on Firefall, a free to play game MMOG.
- Castaway Entertainment, currently in a state of financial crisis, ceased working on a game similar to the Diablo series, Djinn.
- Click Entertainment, creators of Throne of Darkness.
- Carbine Studios, currently working on a massively multiplayer title WildStar.
- Turpitude Design, founded by Stieg Hedlund.
- Hyboreal Games, founded by Michio Okamura.
- Runic Games, founded by Travis Baldree, Erich Schaefer, and Max Schaefer; creators of Torchlight.
- Trion Worlds, currently working on the games Rift and End of Nations.
- Undead Labs, founded by Jeff Strain. Currently working on a Zombie MMO for consoles.
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