Warcraft inventive guru Chris Metzen returns to Blizzard in advisory position
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The voice of Thrall and former Artistic visionary returns to Warcraft, as Chris Metzen is introduced as a Artistic Advisor for the MMORPG.
The voice of Thrall and longtime inventive voice for the world of World of Warcraft is coming dwelling. Announced earlier today by SVP and General Manager of the Warcraft franchise John Hight, former Warcraft and World of Warcraft inventive designer Chris Metzen returns to the MMORPG franchise in a Artistic Advisor position. The announcement comes from social media, together with a message from Hight about Metzen’s return and his affect on the franchise from the start.
“Chris’s focus initially will likely be on World of Warcraft, then his work will increase to different tasks throughout this rising franchise,” mentioned Hight within the assertion. The return Warcraft return by Chris Metzen isn’t his first WoW position since his retirement from Blizzard in September of 2016. Along with serving because the voice of Thrall in World of Warcraft, Metzen additionally had a cameo position within the considerably maligned Warcraft live-action movie.
Chris Metzen returns to World of Warcraft
Metzen’s Warcraft work dates again to the start of the franchise. Works embrace serving as Artistic Director for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, illustration and graphic design work for the general Warcraft sequence, and quite a few novelizations that function the spine to World of Warcraft canon. His non-Blizzard work contains quite a few graphic novels underneath IDW Publishing and its Transformers line of comics.
The return of Chris Metzen marks a major good religion transfer by Blizzard. This could make followers of WoW completely happy, whereas additionally reveals strikes for the long run. The assertion makes remarks about “different tasks throughout the franchise,” which means that extra Warcraft might be coming in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later. Whether or not this implies new Warcraft-centric, non-WoW video games or a long-rumored reboot of the Warcraft movie franchise, longtime followers ought to relaxation simple figuring out Metzen is concerned.
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