Blizzard Entertainment is an American PC game developer and publisher. Since its release of Warcraft in 1994, it has been one of the most successful game development studios in the world. Its headquarters are based in Irvine, California. The company has a history of largely overshooting release dates. However, many Blizzard fans see this as somewhat of a blessing in disguise, as Blizzard has a reputation for producing classic games that are played for years to come. Every one of their games since Warcraft has been a best-seller.

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Blizzard Entertainment was founded in February, 1991 as Silicon & Synapse by Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce. The company developed games like Rock & Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings (published by Interplay Productions). In 1994, the company briefly changed its name to Chaos Studios, before finally settling on Blizzard Entertainment after it was discovered that another company with the Chaos name already existed. That same year, they were acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates for under $10 million. Shortly thereafter, Blizzard shipped their breakthrough hit Warcraft.

Blizzard has changed hands several times since then: Davidson was acquired by a timeshare company called CUC International in 1996; CUC then merged with a hotel, real-estate, and car-rental franchiser called HFS Corporation to form Cendant Software, in 1997. In 1998 it became apparent that CUC had engaged in accounting fraud for years before the merger; Cendant's stock lost 80% of its value over the next six months in the ensuing widely discussed accounting scandal. The company sold its consumer software operations, including Blizzard, to French publisher Havas in 1998, the same year Havas was purchased by Vivendi. Blizzard is now part of the Vivendi Games group of Vivendi.

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WoW blues are in the guild on Broxigar Horde side, at least. Some in too.
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Sent hate email to Blizzard Entertainment, aka World of Warcraft. I'm sure they care what I think.
A day where I can talk to both Dark Horse Comics and Blizzard Entertainment is a day the dork inside of me = stoked. Tomorrow Adult Swim?
nerpal (nerpal) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:22:28 -0000
A day where I can talk to both Dark Horse Comics and Blizzard Entertainment is a day the dork inside of me = stoked. Tomorrow Adult Swim?

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