Game Never Over

In March 2004, when René Koiter was 19, his twin brother Michel came down with a fever. René and Michel were students in the Netherlands--Michel at the Utrecht School of the Arts, René at the University of Utrecht--and they were doing freelance design work for Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer about to launch its marquee franchise: World of Warcraft. Michel's fever wasn't supposed to be fatal. Michel was young and healthy--he and René were regulars at their local Taekwondo center. But a few days later, Michel's heart started failing, and René and their father rushed to the hospital to save him.