Blizzard's Frank Pearce

World of Warcraft has the scope that would occupy most companies' resources entirely. Yet Blizzard is set to revive two of its franchises with the release of StarCraft II and Diablo III as well as its original online service Battle.net. Producing product at this level, while continuing to manage an MMO which at over 10 million subscribers still hasn't hit its peek, seems hard to imagine never mind actually accomplish.

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