Will next great Blizzard developers, creators come from Irvine?
September 11th, 2009, 12:07 pm · 8 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
It’s about time UC Irvine offered gaming as a major to incoming freshman. The university has long offered a game-friendly course for graduate students and supported several undergraduate programs, like mobile gaming and development.
But according to the OCRegister’s Irvine reporter Ian Hamilton, the school may add a gaming major as soon as next fall. This is partly due to the brand new Computer Games and Virtual Worlds Center, established this quarter. Virtual worlds? C’mon! That’s Blizzard’s specialty.
This should be a nice fit to what the Laguna College Art+Design is doing in Laguna Beach (read “Get taught by Blizzard — a perk if you attend Laguna art school“). The art school includes some Blizzard employees on faculty and last year had an exclusive art exhibit with original art from the gaming company.
Read Ian’s story, “UCI students could soon major in video games” on the Irvine business blog.
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