Raul Tllo: I don't know how they got started but I can tell you how they got so big. Every few years, they would create the best game ever made. Warcraft 1, 2, 3, Starcraft (starcraft 2 coming), Diablo, Diablo 2, World of Warcraft. Each of these was the best game ever made, in its time. Selling incredible numbers of copies.
Indira Wassell: Don't consider that to be accurate
Serena Doak: Blizzard Entertainment was founded by Michael Morhaime, Ayman Allen Adham and Frank Pearce as Silicon & Synapse in February 1991, a year after[3] all three had received their bachelor's degrees from UCLA.[4][3] In the early days the company focused on creating game ports for other studios. Ports include titles such as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I and Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess.[5][6] In 1993, the company developed games like Rock N' Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings (published by Interplay Productions). In 1994, the company briefly changed its name to C! haos 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: Orcs and Humans.Blizzard has changed hands several times since then: Davidson was acquired along with Sierra On-Line by a company called CUC International in 1996; CUC then merged with a hotel, real-estate, and car-rental franchiser called HFS Corporation to form Cendant 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, Sierra On-line which included Blizzard, to French publisher Havas in 1998, the same year Havas was purchased by Vivendi. Blizzard was! part of the Vivendi Games group of Vivendi. In July 2008 Vive! ndi Games merged with Activision, using Blizzard's name in the resulting company, Activision Blizzard.In 1996, Blizzard acquired Condor Games, which had been working on the game Diablo for Blizzard at the time. Condor was renamed Blizzard North, and has since developed hit games Diablo, Diablo II, and its expansion pack Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. Blizzard North was located in San Mateo, California.Blizzard launched their online gaming service Battle.net in January 1997 with the release of their action-RPG Diablo. In 2002, Blizzard was able to reacquire rights for three of its earlier Silicon & Synapse titles from Interplay Entertainment and re-release them under Game Boy Advance.[7] In 2004, Blizzard opened European offices in the Paris suburb of Vélizy, Yvelines, France, responsible for the European in-game support of World of Warcraft. On November 23, 2004, Blizzard released World of Warcraft, its MMORPG offering. On May 16, 2005, Blizzard announced the acquisition ! of Swingin' Ape Studios, a console game developer which had been developing StarCraft: Ghost. The company was then merged into Blizzard's other teams after StarCraft: Ghost was 'postponed indefinitely'. On August 1, 2005, Blizzard announced the consolidation of Blizzard North into the headquarters at 131 Theory in UC Irvine's University Research Park in Irvine, California.In 2008, Blizzard was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for the creation of World of Warcraft. Mike Morhaime accepted the award.[edit] TitlesGame Name Release Year GenreRPM Racing[5] 1991 racing gameBattle Chess (Windows and Commodore 64 ports)[8] 1992 chessBattle Chess II: Chinese Chess (Amiga port)[8] 1992 puzzle gameJ.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I (Amiga port)[8] 1992 role-playing gameCastles (Amiga port)[5] 1992 strategyMicroLeague Baseball (Amiga port)[5] 1992 sportLexi-Cross (Macintosh port)[5] 1992 game showDvorak on Typing (Macintosh port! )[5] 1992 educationThe Lost Vikings[9] 1992 platform gameRock N' Ro! ll Racing[9] 1993 racing gameShanghai II: Dragon's Eye[8] 1994 mahjong solitaireBlackthorne[9] 1994 cinematic platform gameThe Death and Return of Superman[9] 1994 side-scrolling beat 'em upWarcraft: Orcs & Humans 1994 fantasy real-time strategy gameThe Lost Vikings II 1995 platform gameJustice League Task Force[10] 1995 fighting gameWarcraft II: Tides of Darkness 1995 fantasy real-time strategy gameWarcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal 1996 expansion packDiablo 1996 action-oriented fantasy role-playing gameStarCraft 1998 science fiction real-time strategy gameStarCraft: Brood War 1998 expansion packWarcraft II: Battle.net Edition 1999 fantasy real-time strategy gameDiablo II 2000 action-oriented fantasy role-playing gameDiablo II: Lord of Destruction 2001 expansion packWarcraft III: Reign of Chaos 2002 fantasy real-time strategy gameWarcraft III: The Frozen Throne 2003 expansion packWorld of Warcraft 2004 MMORPG set in the Warcraft univers! e.World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade 2007 expansion packWorld of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 2008 expansion packStarCraft II (Wings of Liberty)[11] under development science fiction real-time strategy gameStarCraft II (Heart of the Swarm...Show more
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