--- title: Epic Games hires former head of Blizzard's Battle.net description: Martin Keely, former senior vice president of Battle.net and technology services at Blizzard, has joined Epic Games as VP/GM of Epic Games Store and Epic... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/epic-games-hires-former-head-of-blizzard-s-battle-net-trbut9lbb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Epic Games hires former head of Blizzard's Battle.net | daily.dev og:description: Martin Keely, former senior vice president of Battle.net and technology services at Blizzard, has joined Epic Games as VP/GM of Epic Games Store and Epic... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/epic-games-hires-former-head-of-blizzard-s-battle-net-trbut9lbb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TRBUt9lbB.png og:image:alt: Epic Games hires former head of Blizzard's Battle.net og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Epic Games hires former head of Blizzard's Battle.net **[Game Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/gamedeveloper)** · 2 min read · 6 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Martin Keely, former senior vice president of Battle.net and technology services at Blizzard, has joined Epic Games as VP/GM of Epic Games Store and Epic Online Services after a seven-year tenure at Blizzard. The hire comes amid other leadership changes at Epic, including the departure of Steve Allison to Saber Interactive and the company's earlier round of 1,000 job cuts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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