hamilton chu

Brainstormer, Business leader, Designer, Foodie, Idea generator, Producer, Technologist, Writer/Editor

Making games is about designing incentives, orchestrating emotions, and in the end, creating. Playing games is about optimizing, performing, reacting, and in the end, creating. I have spent my whole life doing both. Through the course of my career, I have graduated from gaming games to gaming game development to gaming the games business. Or perhaps I have devolved from one to the next, depending on your point of view. I have had the privilege of working with some of the most talented people in our industry, having lead the production of Halo and Halo 2, the key franchise for Microsoft's XBox, and one which, through the course of reaching some 50 million players, has since grossed more than $3B I also lead business operations of Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, which itself has reached tens of millions of players who have collectively spent millions of hours in the game. Lastly, I'm also very excited about Blizzard's upcoming game, Hearthstone, on which I am serving as Executive Producer. Also, apparently it is quite easy to sound super pretentious when writing your own bio.