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Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan has left BlizzardAfter 20 years with the company
After 20 years with the company
Overwatchgame direct Jeff Kaplan has left Blizzard after twenty years with the company. The news was announced in ablog post, which also names his successor as Aaron Keller.
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Kaplan first joined Blizzard twenty years ago as a quest designer on the in-development World Of Warcraft. He later moved to Blizzard’s next MMO project, Titan, and when that was cancelled he stayed to build Overwatch from its remnants. Since then he’s become the public face of the game, making announcements and notably streaming himself sitting in front of a log fire for ten hourson Christmas 2017andagain on 2019, and with help from other Overwatch developersin 2018.
Aaron Keller steps in as Overwatch’s game director, having worked on Overwatch since its inception and having been at Blizzard himself for 18 years. Keller’s note in the above linked blog post gave an update on the in-developmentOverwatch 2, noting that the game is “continuing at a good pace.”
“We have an exceptional vision we’re executing on, the reaction from many of you to the updates we shared at BlizzConline thrilled us, and we have exciting reveals planned for this year and beyond as we ramp to launch. We’ll be sharing more frequent updates about Overwatch 2 progress and new features in the live game with you all very soon.”
Correction:This story originally quoted an apparent farewell tweet from Jeff Kaplan, which turned out to be from a fake account. Sorry for the error.
