A character from a popular video game will soon be a permanent fixture in Taichung.
The News Lens
Date: 2016/07/12
By: Tashken Davlet
Steve Wang, a Taiwan-born sculptor who works in Hollywood, will soon unveil a
To celebrate Blizzard Entertainment’s 25th anniversary, and as a tribute to Taiwanese and Asian gamers, the game developer cooperated with the Taichung City Government to commission Wang to build a sculpture of Arthas, one of the best-known characters from Blizzard’s “Warcraft Universe,” in the Calligraphy Greenway, Taichung.
It is the company’s first public artwork in Asia.
Blizzard Entertainment is behind of the world’s most popular video games, including “Warcraft,” “Starcraft” and “Diablo.” A movie based on “Warcraft Universe” was released last month and is already the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time. [FULL STORY]