Alum are stars of gaming world

It began with three UCLA graduates, $20,000 and a 600-square-foot office in Irvine.

Three young entrepreneurs started working on video games just months after receiving their undergraduate degrees from UCLA using computers brought from home, and even some borrowed equipment.

Silicon & Synapse, the small company Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce started nearly 20 years ago, is now Blizzard Entertainment.