Overwatch and World of Warcraft art director Bill Petras has died. The news was shared by Harley D. Huggins II, former cinematic projects director at Blizzard, who paid tribute to Petras on LinkedIn.

Saddened to hear that Bill Petras, the original World of Warcraft and then Overwatch Art Director has passed away. No cause of death has been confirmed but his family will be planning a ...

The OpenAI CEO says AI means more people can create and share work and that human designers are still needed because "taste ...

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Ohio University students collaborated with the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) to create a decorative endcap for Cardinal, a powerful new supercomputer housed at the OSC. Cardinal supports advanced ...

Petras notably served as art director on World of WarCraft for its original release in 2004. WoW iterated on Warcraft 3's visual identity to create an extremely influential art style not only in ...

Microsoft celebrates its fiftieth anniversary on April 4, 2025. How did it get here? We've picked 25 moments that shaped ...

Fifty years is a long time for anyone, let alone a company which has driven itself to move at the pace of the computer, than the Internet, and now AI ... developed the world’s first word ...

It combines stylized, minimalist art direction with rally cars from the 1960s to the infamous Group B in the ’80s. Hurtle around open-world environments ... half-decent AI to race against ...