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Stay Awhile and Listen

How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire, Book 1

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Stay Awhile and Listen

By: David L. Craddock
Narrated by: Mike Rylander
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Two companies. Two opposing cultures. One multi-billion-dollar video game empire.

Stay Awhile and Listen: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video Game Empire invites listeners to discover the origin of Blizzard North, a studio built by gamers, for gamers, and Blizzard Entertainment, a convergence of designers driven to rule their industry.

Composed from exhaustive research and hundreds of personal interviews, the Stay Awhile and Listen series divulges the fated meeting that brought the two Blizzards together, the clashes that tore them apart, and their transformation from grassroots democracy to corporate empire. At the center of it all - Diablo, a hack-and-slash adventure through the darkest recesses of Hell that changed online gaming forever.

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Insightful Gaming History • Well-researched Content • Distinct Character Voices • Detailed Biography • Enjoyable Deep Dive

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very interesting book with a lot of insight into the of Blizzard. loved the narrator too, he found very distinct voices for each person

great narrator

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If you are a gaming history junkie like me, you will really appreciate the quality and journalistic integrity of this writers’ work. I have yet to see anything else with this level of professional journalism in the field. I haven’t even played many Blizzard games, and I loved this book!

So much better than youtube

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People don’t seem to like the narrator but it was totally fine. Only gripe I have is small in that he refers to id software as I-D software, groan.

Fun, informative

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This was a quite ok look into Blizzards early years. Telling the story from beginning and still focusing on Diablo.

Can't a fella drink in peace...

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Fans of Diablo will enjoy this book. It’s a very chronological play-by-play which immerses the listener in the atmosphere of feverish game development, but sometimes it would be nice to zoom out and see the forest and not just the trees. It was especially nice to hear the artist commentary on the music and audio as for me that is one of the most indelible memories of the game.

Diablo nostalgia

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