Chris Metzen
Game designer, Video Game Designer
1973 –
Who is Chris Metzen?
Christopher Vincent Metzen is an American game designer, artist, voice actor and author known for his work creating the fictional universes and scripts for Blizzard Entertainment's three major award-winning media franchises: Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft. On occasion, Metzen has published his art under the alias "Thundergod". Metzen was hired by Blizzard Entertainment as an animator and an artist; his first work for the company was with the video game Justice League Task Force.
Metzen is currently the Senior Vice President of Story and Franchise Development at Blizzard Entertainment and has assisted the company's projects by providing voice talent for a number of characters, as well as contributing to artistic character design. Outside of Blizzard Entertainment, Metzen authored a graphic novel series based on a futuristic second American civil war.
In his most recent side-project, Metzen co-authored the "digital-only" series turned Trade Paperback release, "Transformers: Autocracy" with author Flint Dille and artist Livio Ramondelli. The same team is current working on the follow-up series, "Transformers: Monstrosity".
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- Born
- Nov 22, 1973
United States of America - Also known as
- Thundergod
- Christopher Vincent Metzen
- Chris Vincent Metzen
- Metzen, Chris
- Spouses
- Kat Hunter
(2013/04/21 - )
- Kat Hunter
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Employment
- Blizzard Entertainment
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on July 23, 2013
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