Lead designer from Relic (Dawn of War & Company of Heroes) on StarCraft 2 team

Posted by Lipton on January 28th, 2010 filed in StarCraft News

Nothing official was announced, but just noticing a profile update on LinkedIn we can see that Jonny Ebbert a leader designer at Relic Entertainment has joined Blizzard as a game designer 6 months ago. Blizzard is known for recruiting and keeping the best talent...

Jonny Ebbert’s Experience

Game Designer

Blizzard Entertainment

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

August 2009 — Present (6 months)
Lead Designer

Relic Entertainment

(Public Company; Computer Games industry)

February 2005 — August 2009 (4 years 7 months)

Lead Designer on Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising
Lead Designer on Dawn of War II
Lead Designer on Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Senior Designer on Dawn of War: Winter Assault

Dustin Browder the lead designer of StarCraft himself came from the Command & Conquer 2 team.

How do you guys feel new devs from other RTS games will effect StarCraft II?

Thanks to Opet for the tip!