Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mike O'Brien is
one of the three co-founders and current president of ArenaNet and the
leader of the Design and Content teams for Guild Wars. Previously, he
worked as a company director and a lead programmer at Blizzard
Entertainment where he developed the 3D rendering engine of Warcraft
III: Reign of Chaos and led the development of Battle.net. He also
worked on Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Diablo and StarCraft, where
he, among other things, designed and created the MPQ archives used in
all Blizzard games after Diablo. Mike O'Brien was featured as one of the
most influential people in the computer and video game industry on PC
Gamer's September 1999 cover story "Game Gods".
