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Blizzard Entertainment is the name of a highly successful PC game developer and publisher. Since its release of Warcraft in 1994, every game it has released has been a best-seller. It is headquartered in Irvine, California.
1 Overview
Blizzard Entertainment was founded in 1991 as Silicon & Synapse by Mike Morhaime , Allen Adham and Frank Pearce . The company developed games like Rock & Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings (published by Interplay Productions) and then was acquired in 1994 by distributor Davidson & Associates for under $10 million USD. Shortly thereafter, Blizzard shipped their breakthrough hit Warcraft.
Blizzard has changed hands several times since then: Davidson was acquired by CUC in 1996; then CUC merged with HFS Corporation to form Cendant Software in 1997. After Cendant experienced a massive accounting scandal, its consumer software operations, including Blizzard, were sold to French publisher Havas in 1998, the same year Havas was purchased by Vivendi. Blizzard is now part of the VU Games group of Vivendi Universal.
2 Titles
- The Lost Vikings ( 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi) - platform gamePlatform games or platformers are a very popular genre of video games that originated in the early 1980s. In the mid 1990s, they made the transition to 3D Traditionally, the platform game scrolls right to left, with the playable character viewed from a si
- Rock & Roll Racing ( 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.) - racing game
- BlackthorneSega 32X Blackthorne Blackhawk in some European countries) is a video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It is a 2D platform game similar in style to Prince of Persia and Flashback, distinguished by frequent gunfights and cartoonish graphics. Black ( 1994) - fantasy platform game
- The Death and Return of SupermanMetropolis, his home, with the Daily Planet building in the background. Superman is a fictional character and superhero, created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, who first appeared in comic books in 1938, and eventually became the most popular comic book ( 1994) - side-scrolling beat 'em up
- Warcraft ( 1994) - fantasy real-time strategy game
- Justice League Task Force ( 1995) - one-on-one fighting game
- The Lost Vikings II ( 1995) - platform game
- Warcraft II ( 1995) - fantasy real-time strategy game
- Diablo ( 1996) - action-oriented computer role-playing game
- StarCraft ( 1998) - science fiction real-time strategy game
- ( 1998) - expansion pack
- Diablo II ( 2000) - action-oriented RPG
- ( 2001) - expansion pack
- ( 2002) - fantasy real-time strategy game
- ( 2003) - expansion pack
- World of Warcraft ( 2004) - MMORPG set in the Warcraft universe
As of 2004, Blizzard is currently working on a stealth action game called .
