Robert Bridenbecker

Robert Bridenbecker is the former executive producer and vice president of Classic Games at Blizzard Entertainment. After 26 years, he left Blizzard in April 2021.

Bridenbecker began working for Blizzard in 1995.

His deep knowledge and passion for online technology led to the establishment of Battle.net, going on to help guide its evolution in the years that followed.

He used to be Vice President of Online Technologies at Blizzard.

In 2015, he formed the Classic Games team. In recent years, he led classic games’ loving upgrade of the real-time strategy classic in StarCraft: Remastered and brought the acclaimed action RPG Diablo III Eternal Collection to the Nintendo Switch.

His brother was Bradford C. Bridenbecker, who died of cancer in 2007. After his brother's death, he sent an E-mail to Blizzard to request a character be created in tribute; when word of this reached Chris Metzen, a quest chain was written for Wrath of the Lich King, involving a character named Crusader Bridenbrad.

The NPC Rob Bridenbecker is named after him. The NPC Bradford Bridenbecker is also named after his brother.