Shacknews exclusive: A chapter from the book of Blizzard

Today, we kick off a week of coverage on David Craddock's upcoming book on Blizzard Entertainment, Stay Awhile and Listen. On Monday through Wednesday, we will publish Chapter 8, The Velvet Hammer. On Thursday, we will interview Craddock and include questions from readers, and we wrap up on Friday with a couple of contests where readers can win free copies of the book.

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Today, we kick off a week of coverage on David Craddock's upcoming book on Blizzard Entertainment, Stay Awhile and Listen. He has been working on the book since mid-2008, and he talks to nearly 80 former employees, including those who used to work at Blizzard, Condor (later Blizzard North), and Silicon & Synapse (Blizzard's original name when it was founded), as well as people who had regular dealings with Blizzard head honchos Mike Morhaime and Allen Adham.

Here's the schedule:

Stay with us all week and have fun reading. Special thanks to David Craddock for allowing us to post the chapter and working with us for the last three months to bring it to you. The book launches next year, and will be published by Digital Monument Press.

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    October 29, 2012 8:45 AM

    John Keefer posted a new article, Shacknews exclusive: A chapter from the book of Blizzard.

    Today, we kick off a week of coverage on David Craddock's upcoming book on Blizzard Entertainment, Stay Awhile and Listen. On Monday through Wednesday, we will publish Chapter 8, The Velvet Hammer. On Thursday, we will interview Craddock and include questions from readers, and we wrap up on Friday with a couple of contests where readers can win free copies of the book.

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      October 29, 2012 9:48 AM

      Papyrus? Seriously?

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        October 29, 2012 11:21 AM

        Ehhh its a fun font, but yea its been around like a dirty hooker at 5am.

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        October 29, 2012 6:34 PM

        Haha. Bevelled, no less. What got me was the lazy cloning at the bottom of the fog. This thing is super cool but christ I hope that image is a placeholder

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          October 29, 2012 6:39 PM

          it reminds me of that point and click adventure game that stole all of their images from other games and used MS Paint to make them their own.

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        October 29, 2012 6:50 PM

        Ah - I can explain this. It IS our image, but a very early one meant as a teaser. And we didn't clone the fog at the bottom. Ours was smaller, cutting off a little ways below the words. I imagine the cloning was done to get the image to fit a certain image size requirement.

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