Patrick Wyatt is a game programmer and one of the three co-founders of ArenaNet. He was the leader of the Network and Technology teams and a programmer for '' Guild Wars''. Before the founding of ArenaNet, he was working in Blizzard Entertainment where he was the Vice President of Research and Development and a senior programmer. Wyatt was the leader of

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gaming network's programming and a major contributor on the multiplayer parts of Blizzard's popular games including ''

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'', '' Diablo'' and '' Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness''. Having been in Blizzard for more than eight years, his work also includes earlier Blizzard games like '' Lost Vikings'' and '' Rock N' Roll Racing''. On February 24, 2010, he became the Chief Operations Officer for En Masse Entertainment, along with other industry veterans. The first official En Masse title, an

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titled

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, launched in 2011 in South Korea and 2012 in North America and Europe. Patrick was employed by Undead Labs on January 30, 2014, where he worked with

Jeff Strain Jeff Strain is an American entrepreneur, CEO, and founder of three independent video game studios, most recently Possibility Space. In 2000, Strain cofounded ArenaNet, where he worked as an executive producer and programmer on the popular online ...

, another co-founder of ArenaNet. As of November 2015 he is now Senior Principal Engineer for

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Games

;Programmer of Game Ports *'' The Lost Vikings'' (1992), Interplay Productions *'' Battle Chess Enhanced CD-ROM'' (1992), Interplay Productions *'' Rock 'n Roll Racing'' (1993), Interplay Productions *''

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'' (1994), Sun Corporation of America *''

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''* (1994), Interplay Productions *'' Justice League Task Force'' (1995), Acclaim Entertainment *''

The Lost Vikings 2 ''Lost Vikings 2'' is a 1997 puzzle-platform game developed by Beam Software and published by Interplay. All versions of the game, except the SNES release, were titled ''Lost Vikings 2: Norse by Norsewest'' (''Norse by Norse West: The Return of T ...

'' (1997), Interplay Entertainment ;Producer and Lead Programmer *'' WarCraft: Orcs & Humans'' (1994), Blizzard Entertainment *'' Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness'' (1995), Blizzard Entertainment *''

'' (1998), Blizzard Entertainment ;Programmer *'' Diablo'' (1996), Blizzard Entertainment *'' Warcraft II: The Dark Saga'' (1997), Electronic Arts *'' Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition'' (2000), Blizzard Entertainment *'' Diablo II'' (2000), Blizzard Entertainment *'' StarCraft: Brood War'' (1998), Blizzard Entertainment *''

StarCraft 64 ''StarCraft'' is a 1998 military science fiction real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. The game spawned the ''StarCraft'' franchise, and became the first game of the video game serie ...

'' (2000), Nintendo of America *'' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'' (2002), Blizzard Entertainment ;Production/Business * Guild Wars: Nightfall (2006), NCsoft Europe * Guild Wars: Factions (2006), NCsoft Europe * Guild Wars: Eye of the North (2007), NCsoft Europe * Aion (2009), NCsoft West *

(2011), NHN Games Corporation

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