We’d been listening to an audiobook – Blood, Sweat and Pixels.  One of the chapters was dedicated to one of my favourite gaming companies — Blizzard.

So naturally when we were in town for a conference already we decided to pay a business visit to our friend who works there.

And here’s the campus.

I mean, you only had to get through chain linked fences and a security guard to get to this point of the premise.

Rounding the corner brings you to the famous orc statue.  You can read about the making of this orc statue on the Blizzard web site.

Naturally I posed in front of it.

Normally the Orc isn’t covered by knitting — it’s only there for Christmas but they’re a little slow.  So it’s like we got to see the special spawn!

And here’s the lobby.

After that, we got a tour of Blizzard — including a glimpse of their special operations command room where they can see server stats around the world!

UNfortunately most of the areas were blocked off and closed – even for a VIB like me.

Another time.  One day I shall OWN MULTIPLE game companies.  Till then I’ll just selfie in front of this one.