Who's Jay Wilson?
by Mike Schramm 
Jun 28th 2008 at 6:41AM
Jay Wilson is on stage at WWI right now, showing off Blizzard's new game, the very hot-looking Diablo 3. But just who is Jay Wilson, and why is he in charge of the new Diablo game? Wilson's worked with Blizzard on World of Warcraft, and he's even got a character named after him.Previously, he'd worked for a company called Relic Entertainment, and was the lead designer on Dawn of War, a Warhammer 40000 (Warhammer, but in the future, kind of like Starcraft to our Warcraft)-based RTS game. The good news is that the game was fairly well reviewed, but of course Diablo 3 isn't an RTS game, it's a hack-and-slash, so we're not sure how Wilson will do on that front yet.
In this interview, Wilson was known to be at Blizzard and supposedly working on Starcraft II but of course now we know better. This new Diablo could be the chance for this developer new to Blizzard to claim his place in history.
UPDATE: Our very own Joystiq caught up with Jay Wilson at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational. Find out what Diablo 3's lead designer has to say about porting to consoles, the next Deckard Cain rap and the notorious dupe exploits of previous games.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Worldwide Invitational
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
darkra Jun 28th 2008 7:03AM
Sorry to say, you are focusing on the wrong thing here... the important question is:
WHAT IS THE EXCLUSIVE MINIPET FROM THE GOODY BAG????
Kassius Jun 28th 2008 7:11AM
cool, Dawn of war was a groundbreaking and awesome RTS; abd was only really superceded by company of heroes, also from relic. ...so this guy should be good :D
naanoo Jun 28th 2008 7:26AM
again no sound on the stream pff i wana hear the stuff about wotlk
slimj091 Jun 28th 2008 7:36AM
it's okay.. because now we have sound.. but no video
John Jun 28th 2008 7:40AM
Just a little nitpick, Warhammer 40000 isn't the future of Warhammer fantasy, it's stories are set in the future of Earth, and warhammer fantasy may be in the future of 40k (or it may be a post-apocalyptic version of earth, if you treat Blood Bowl as canonical, what with it's football god "Nuffle" [NFL])
Dunwich Jun 28th 2008 10:44AM
WHFB isn't set in 40k. WHFB is just a fantasy setting. That particular link was removed a long, long time ago, and only lives on in a handful of wargear from the Dark Shadows Rising campaign a few years ago.
Blood Bowl is set in a parody of it, hence why races that are at each others throats are playing American Football with each other.
Funny thing is, there's already an ex-GW staffer working on SC2, Andy Chambers.
Anthraks Jun 28th 2008 10:07AM
Great! Relic is an excellent company, right up there with Blizzard and Valve. Everything they've put out I've enjoyed.
Toast Erickson Jun 28th 2008 10:26AM
He could be a different guy, but a guy named Jay "Shade" Wilson was also the lead developer on Blood 2.
Saelorn Jun 28th 2008 2:43PM
Jay Wilson is a slime.
Vidi Jun 28th 2008 3:46PM
is that the SAME JWilson????