Blizzard veteran Ray Gresko, producer of Overwatch and one of the creators of Diablo III, has become vice president of Disney Games

By: Anton Kratiuk | 09.04.2024, 21:37

Disney Corporation continues to strengthen its gaming division and is recruiting valuable employees who have tremendous experience in the industry.

Recently, former employees of such giants as Blizzard, Ubisoft, Epic Games and other equally famous studios have moved to Disney Games.

Today it became known that the American media holding invited another valuable specialist to co-operate.

Here's What We Know

The position of Vice President of Disney Games for the production of games received a former director of development Blizzard Entertainment Ray Gresko. He will oversee the creation of an ambitious meta-universe being developed in collaboration with Epic Games, for which Disney has allocated $ 1.5 billion.

Previously, Ray Gresko was involved in the creation of the first prototype of Hearthstone, produced Overwatch, managed the production of Diablo III and other important Blizzard projects. And Ray began his career as a programmer in the team of authors of the cult shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces, which recently, incidentally, received a re-release.

Additional details of the joint project between Disney and Epic Games are still unknown, but the fact that it is being handled by an extremely experienced team is encouraging.

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Source: Variety